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USAID/Mozambique develop and implement a plan with milestones to provide training or technical assistance to appropriate staff at warehouse and health-care facilities that store and dispense USAID-funded antimalarial drugs and insecticide-treated bed nets so that staff are capable of properly maintaining inventory records and managing stocks effectively.

USAID/Mozambique develop and implement a plan with milestones to train appropriate staff of the indoor residual spraying program to record data, maintain source documents, maintain data systems, and report program results properly.

USAID/Mozambique establish and implement written procedures to ensure that program results reported by implementing partners in quarterly and annual reports are consistent with the mission's performance indicators and annual performance report.

USAID/Mozambique provide training to mission staff on the requirements for data quality assessments outlined in the Automated Directives System and develop policies and procedures to make copies of data quality assessments easily accessible to mission staff and implementing partners.

USAID/Mozambique develop and implement a schedule to conduct periodic site visits that entail data quality testing and verification, and document the results of those visits.

USAID/Colombia define and develop its own indicator to determine progress achieved towards the main goal of stabilization or significant improvement in the quality of life of beneficiaries.

USAID/Colombia, in coordination with its implementing partners, work with the Constitutional Court and the Government of Colombia to develop a Government of Colombia definition of an intermediate level of stabilization of displaced and vulnerable persons.

USAID/Colombia develop a qualitative measure that captures improvements of the institutions receiving institutional strengthening and the impact.

USAID/Colombia reevaluate income generation efforts to refocus program indicators and activities on income stabilization and incorporate characteristics specific to displaced and vulnerable populations.

USAID/Colombia adjust its future performance plan and report to correct inaccuracies in any reported results in the Fiscal Year 2009 Performance Plan and Report.

We recommend that the Millennium Challenge Corporation eliminate from the project the nine health centers that Medical Care Development International recommended decommissioning, whose renovation will cost an estimated $8 million, or justify in writing their continued inclusion in the project.

We recommend that the Millennium Challenge Corporation follow-up on the Medical Care Development International report to determine whether the inclusion by default of the 20 health centers within the MCC project is warranted, and document its analysis and decision.

We recommend that the Millennium Challenge Corporation reassess the decentralization efforts to determine whether the District Health Management Teams will be functional upon health center completion; document its efforts; and implement additional mitigation measures, if necessary, to manage the risk to sustainability.

We recommend that the Millennium Challenge Corporation develop a policy requiring conditions precedent to focus on outcomes, where appropriate, rather than prescribing specific activities.

We recommend that the Millennium Challenge Corporation review the annual budget of the Government of Lesotho to determine whether sufficient amounts were budgeted to cover its share of the cost of the health center renovations and document its review.

We recommend that the Millennium Challenge Corporation develop and implement a strategy with the Millennium Challenge Corporation, Millennium Challenge Account-Lesotho, and the supervisory engineer to coordinate oversight during renovation of all health centers in the project.

We recommend that the Millennium Challenge Corporation determine whether the health centers included in its project are complying with the memorandum of understanding establishing that all of the essential health services must be provided, and document its review. If centers are not complying, MCC needs to take appropriate action and document its rationale.

We recommend that the Millennium Challenge Corporation review and document the role of private sector providers in compact implementation and establish a written policy for compliance with service delivery requirements to receive Millennium Challenge Corporation funding.

We recommend that Millennium Challenge Corporation revise its Health Sector Project monitoring and evaluation plan to properly attribute the comprehensive efforts being provided by other donors.

We recommend that the Millennium Challenge Corporation review its strategy for health systems strengthening, determine and document whether it will achieve its intended purpose, and take appropriate action and document its rationale if it will not.

We recommend that the Millennium Challenge Corporation require that the Millennium Challenge Account-Lesotho develop a comprehensive, documented communications strategy to increase the transparency of its project activities and provide adequate and timely information to other donors and stakeholders for use in coordinating efforts.

USAID/Mexico exert technical control over the contract and require Management Systems International to develop an implementation strategy that outlines how it intends to identify the sites where it intends to work and the methodologies it intends to deploy for identifying the training needs and execution of training.

USAID/Mexico conduct a portfolio review to examine the strategic and operational issues and determine whether USAID-supported activities are supporting the implementation of criminal justice reforms at the federal and state levels and strengthening civil society organizations' promotion and oversight of human rights.

USAID/Mexico either re-compete the contract for technical services or prepare the appropriate justification required by the Competition in Contracting Act of 1984 for other than full and open competition.

According to RIG/SS's 6/9/11 memo, rec. was subsequently revised within the final report to:

Mission seek an independent technical decision from either the Contract Review Board or the USAID Ombudsman to make a determination if USAID complied with the Federal Acquisition Regulations in approving the award of the MSI task order under the ENGAGE IQC.

USAID/Mexico revise its current performance indicators and associated targets for the rule of law program so that they will assess progress toward the program's overall goals and objectives.

USAID/Mexico update its Performance Management Plan for the rule of law program.

USAID/Mexico strengthen its internal controls so that technical officers implement their delegated duties in accordance with USAID policy.

USAID/Mexico establish procedures for systematically following up with training participants to assess the impact and effectiveness of training.

USAID/Mexico institute procedures to consistently collect and input training data into the USAID training network.

We recommend the the Millennium Challenge Corporation's Vice President of Compact Operations revise the guidance on Standard Bidding Documents: Procurement of Small Works to include specific trafficking in persons provisions.

USAID/Timor-Leste direct the implementer of the Strengthening Property Rights in Timor-Leste Project to develop improved data quality control procedures that will address the recordrelated
deficiencies identified during the audit and ensure that the data and records maintained in the project's database are accurate, complete, and of an acceptable quality.

USAID/Timor-Leste direct the implementer of the Strengthening Property Rights in Timor-Leste Project to (a) reassess the results that can be realistically achieved under its land administration activity during the remainder of the project period and (b) develop a detailed plan for completing this work, including corrective action to address the operational issues identified by the audit, to ensure that all property claims collected under the activity undergo final processing by the end of the project.

USAID/Timor-Leste direct the implementer of the Strengthening Property Rights in Timor-Leste Project to (a) provide training or guidance to its project field staff to ensure that they adhere
to prescribed procedures in the followup and resolution of disputed property claims, and (b) establish appropriate procedures to ensure that data on disputed property claims reported from the project's disputed claims log are accurate and
complete, as well as regularly reconciled with data contained in the project's database to maintain the reliability and accuracy of both records.

USAID/Jordan require its contractor to provide additional written guidance to subcontractors on the purpose of the outreach protocols and the need for accurate reporting of outreach data that exceed targets.

USAID/Jordan provide written guidance to its contractor and subcontractors regarding required record retention periods and periodically verify source documents to database information.

USAID/Jordan require Abt Associates, Inc., to provide USAID/Jordan with documentation demonstrating the inclusion of the required voluntary population planning language in its
subcontracts for review.

In the face of the 33 percent decrease in program funding, USAID/Southern Africa develop and implement an action plan to help ensure that Project Concern International's social mobilization program achieves its main objectives.

USAID/Southern Africa determine the allowability of $22,745 in ineligible questioned costs arising from the Women's Justice and Empowerment Initiative launch and recover from Research Triangle Institute, Inc., any amounts determined to be unallowable.

USAID/Southern Africa (1) notify its acquisition staff of USAID requirements related to the Contract Review Board and (2) establish a management control to help ensure that all prospective awards that meet the requirements for review by the Contract Review Board are submitted in a timely manner to the Board.

USAID/Southern Africa identify and implement steps to promote mutually beneficial collaboration between Project Concern International and EngenderHealth.

USAID/Southern Africa develop a plan to devote more staff resources to coordinating HIV/AIDS gender issues.

USAID/Southern Africa (1) immediately correct the noncompliance with Local Governance Support Program contractual branding requirements found at the Tembisa and Kopanong Thuthuzela Care Centers, and (2) devise a branding and marking plan for all Thuthuzela Care Centers to be established under the Women's Justice and Empowerment Initiative that is both acceptable to the South African Government and in accordance with contractual branding requirements.

USAID/Southern Africa establish policies and procedures to ensure that gender-specific targets for its HIV/AIDS indicators are set at the partner-level, where appropriate, in the next planning cycle.

USAID/Southern Africa, in coordination with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as necessary, utilize the self-assessment tool prepared by the Gender Technical Working Group as a guide to improve the capability of the South African PEPFAR Partner Performance Assessment tool.

USAID/Sudan direct the Louis Berger Group to develop and implement a quality control plan for Modern Energy Services Program activities; and

USAID/Sudan develop and implement policies and procedures for monitoring the Louis Berger Group's quality control activities.

USAID/Sudan develop and implement a plan for establishing adequate internal controls at the Yei Electricity Cooperative in order to promote its long-term sustainability.

USAID/Sudan require the Louis Berger Group to confirm in writing that its subcontractor, National Rural Electricity Cooperative Association, regularly informs residents about program status.

The Assistant Administrator for the Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance issue guidance to all the Bureau's employees explaining and mandating the use of webTA's Premium Pay Request process for requesting approval to earn compensatory time.

The Director of the Office of Human Resources update Automated Directives System Chapter 472 and the USAID Web page to include the requirement that webTA be used for requesting and approving compensatory time.

The Assistant Administrator for the Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance communicate to the Bureau's employees and their supervisors the requirements that compensatory time requests must be justified, submitted, and approved before hours are worked and that such requests should be accurately coded.

The Assistant Administrator for the Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance authorize all DCHA supervisors to receive training in the regulations and processes related to regular and travel compensatory time.