Recommendation Dashboard

OIG makes recommendations in our reports to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of agency programs and help agencies identify questioned costs and funds that could be put to better use. The aim is to spur our audited agencies to take corrective actions, which allow us to close the recommendations.

This dashboard identifies current open recommendations along with the associated questioned costs.  Open recommendations may be resolved or unresolved:

  • A recommendation is resolved when OIG agrees with the agency's plan of action.
  • A recommendation is unresolved when the agency has yet to share a plan of action or OIG disagrees with the plan.

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Total Open Recommendations (As of 10/31/24)

268

Open Financial Recommendations (As of 10/31/24)

$65,043,885


Please see an updated list of recommendations with their corresponding report below.

2024

Aug 06, 2024
NFA Transmittal
8-278-24-022-N
Recommendation
1

Determine the allowability of the questioned ineligible amount of $194,233, on page 11 of the audit report and recover any amount that is unallowable

Questioned Cost
194233
Funds for Better Use
0
Close Date
Aug 06, 2024
Aug 01, 2024
Audit Report
9-MCC-24-006-P
Recommendation
5

Conduct an assessment to determine whether the Millennium Challenge Corporation would benefit from periodic Agency-wide or sector-specific analyses of data quality reviews and their recommendations to identify lessons learned.

Questioned Cost
0
Funds for Better Use
0
Recommendation
6

Provide the Millennium Challenge Corporation's Monitoring and Evaluation Leads access to individual data quality reviews on established Agency platforms or another central repository.

Questioned Cost
0
Funds for Better Use
0
Recommendation
3

Establish a timeline for Millennium Challenge Accounts to initiate and finalize data quality reviews, relative to a country program's conclusion, to ensure that data quality review recommendations are actionable and useful.

Questioned Cost
0
Funds for Better Use
0
Recommendation
1

Establish guidance to clarify the roles and responsibilities of the Millennium Challenge Corporation's Monitoring and Evaluation Leads in reviewing and approving data quality review recommendations and tracking Millennium Challenge Accounts' implementation of the recommendations.

Questioned Cost
0
Funds for Better Use
0
Recommendation
4

Establish action plan guidance that defines roles and responsibilities related to addressing data quality review recommendations, the required contents of an action plan, and any permissible exceptions to the action plan requirement.

Questioned Cost
0
Funds for Better Use
0
Recommendation
2

Establish a requirement that Millennium Challenge Accounts directly attribute modifications to their Monitoring and Evaluation plans to data quality review recommendations, as applicable.

Questioned Cost
0
Funds for Better Use
0
Jul 30, 2024
NFA Transmittal
4-617-24-112-R
Recommendation
1

We recommend that USAID/Uganda verify that Ministry of Finance Planning and Economic Development corrects the sixteen instances of material noncompliance detailed on pages 51 to 54, 56 to 68, 71 to 78, and 79 to 82 of the audit report.

Questioned Cost
0
Funds for Better Use
0
Jul 29, 2024
Audit Report
9-MCC-24-005-P
Recommendation
1

Develop and implement policies and detailed procedures that identify and describe the Millennium Challenge Corporation's required pre-award oversight activities, such as procurement file reviews, procurement performance reports, and contractor eligibility verifications, including the purpose, manner, and frequency for completing these activities.

Questioned Cost
0
Funds for Better Use
0
Recommendation
2

Develop and implement a post-award oversight policy that includes requirements to document site visits and develop a central repository for site visit reports, and controls to ensure these requirements, and existing requirements to update risk registers and assign risk response dates, are met.

Questioned Cost
0
Funds for Better Use
0
Jul 23, 2024
NFA Transmittal
4-615-24-003-N
Recommendation
4

We recommend that USAID/Kenya and East Africa determine the allowability of $944,325 in questioned cost-sharing contributions ($913,019 ineligible, $31,306 unsupported) on pages 91, 93, and 95 of the audit report and take any corrective action deemed necessary under ADS 303.3.10.3.

Questioned Cost
0
Funds for Better Use
0
Recommendation
3

We recommend that USAID/Kenya and East Africa verify that University of Nairobi corrects the two instances of material noncompliance detailed on pages 88 to 89 of the audit report.

Questioned Cost
0
Funds for Better Use
0
Recommendation
1

We recommend that USAID/Kenya and East Africa determine the allowability of $487,436 in questioned costs ($375,984 ineligible, $111,452 unsupported) on pages 19, 20, and 27 of the audit report and recover any amount that is unallowable.

Questioned Cost
487436
Funds for Better Use
0
Recommendation
2

We recommend that USAID/Kenya and East Africa verify that University of Nairobi corrects the four material weaknesses in internal control detailed on pages 37 to 39, 42 to 47, and 50 to 55 of the audit report.

Questioned Cost
0
Funds for Better Use
0
Jul 18, 2024
NFA Transmittal
4-621-24-108-R
Recommendation
1

We recommend that USAID/Tanzania verify that National Council of People Living With HIV corrects the two instances of material noncompliance detailed on pages 33 to 35 of the audit report.

Questioned Cost
0
Funds for Better Use
0
Jul 18, 2024
NFA Transmittal
4-623-24-107-R
Recommendation
1

We recommend that USAID/Kenya and East Africa verify that TradeMark Africa Limited corrects the one instance of material noncompliance detailed on page 19 of the audit report.

Questioned Cost
0
Funds for Better Use
0
Jul 17, 2024
Audit Report
5-000-24-002-P
Recommendation
5

USAID's Assistant to the Administrator in the Bureau for Resilience, Environment, and Food Security: Develop and implement a method to communicate consolidated and comprehensive climate change mitigation efforts to internal and external stakeholders.

Questioned Cost
0
Funds for Better Use
0
Recommendation
4

USAID's Assistant to the Administrator in the Bureau for Resilience, Environment, and Food Security: Develop and implement a process for assessing and monitoring performance across climate change mitigation efforts.

Questioned Cost
0
Funds for Better Use
0
Recommendation
1

USAID's Assistant to the Administrator in the Bureau for Resilience, Environment, and Food Security: Develop and implement a process to ensure that all climate change mitigation activities report complete results on applicable climate change mitigation indicators.

Questioned Cost
0
Funds for Better Use
0
Recommendation
3

USAID's Assistant to the Administrator in the Bureau for Resilience, Environment, and Food Security: Develop and implement a process to report consolidated results on climate change mitigation indicators that can be identified with location data and disaggregated by country, activity, and/or type of effort.

Questioned Cost
0
Funds for Better Use
0
Recommendation
2

USAID's Assistant to the Administrator in the Bureau for Resilience, Environment, and Food Security: Develop and implement a process to ensure greenhouse gas reduction results are calculated and measured accurately.

Questioned Cost
0
Funds for Better Use
0
Jul 16, 2024
NFA Transmittal
4-615-24-104-R
Recommendation
2

We recommend that USAID/Kenya and East Africa verify that University of Nairobi Enterprises and Services Limited corrects the two instances of material noncompliance detailed on pages 37 to 39 of the audit report.

Questioned Cost
0
Funds for Better Use
0
Recommendation
1

We recommend that USAID/Kenya and East Africa determine the allowability of $122,971 in questioned costs ($111,642 ineligible, $11,329 unsupported) on pages 13, 16, and 22 of the audit report and recover any amount that is unallowable.

Questioned Cost
122971
Funds for Better Use
0
Jul 16, 2024
NFA Transmittal
4-617-24-103-R
Recommendation
2

We recommend that USAID/Uganda verify that Multi Community Based Development Initiative corrects the one instance of material noncompliance detailed on page 28 of the audit report.

Questioned Cost
0
Funds for Better Use
0
Recommendation
1

We recommend that USAID/Uganda verify that Multi Community Based Development Initiative corrects the one material weaknesses in internal control detailed on page 24 of the audit report.

Questioned Cost
0
Funds for Better Use
0