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 4/15/25)

333

Open Financial Recommendations (As of 4/15/25)

$52,666,905


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

2025

Nov 14, 2024
Audit Report
0-000-25-001-C
Recommendation
1

Perform quarterly reviews over a sample of personnel to ensure that personnel files are maintained and updated to correctly reflect personnel actions.

Questioned Cost
0
Funds for Better Use
0
Recommendation
2

Assess reviews performed by the Human Capital and Talent Management/Employee Services and Benefits division to ensure payroll benefit, leave, and deductions calculated and recorded in employee leave and earnings statements are accurate, agree to employee authorized elections, and comply with USAID's Automated Directive System and federal regulations.

Questioned Cost
0
Funds for Better Use
0
Recommendation
3

Review the reconciliation process with National Finance Center Payroll/Personnel System records to determine enhancements for more effectively identifying and correcting inaccurate information.

Questioned Cost
0
Funds for Better Use
0
Recommendation
4

Develop and document a process on how the Agency implements and
adopts new accounting standards and guidance going forward, including, but not limited to, the
implementation of the embedded leases portion of SFFAS 54.

Questioned Cost
0
Funds for Better Use
0
Recommendation
5

Develop and document a process to ensure its leases are recorded in
accordance with SFFAS 54. At a minimum, this should include the Agency's consideration of materiality and process to assess the completeness, accuracy and reasonableness of all information from the Department of State for which USAID relies on to report in its financial statements and to include an element of management review and approval.

Questioned Cost
0
Funds for Better Use
0
Recommendation
6

Determine what information needs to be captured at a transaction level to allow for the identification of the lease and the type of lease (i.e., domestic, international - USAID dedicated, international - housing pool) at the disbursement transaction level.

Questioned Cost
0
Funds for Better Use
0
Recommendation
7

Develop and implement a process to capture the information identified based on Recommendation 6 to allow for automation of determining completeness of the Department of State provided lease listing.

Questioned Cost
0
Funds for Better Use
0
Recommendation
8

Develop a process by which USAID can automatically calculate lease balances for leases dedicated to USAID to allow USAID to verify the accuracy of the information provided by the Department of State related to USAID's dedicated leases.

Questioned Cost
0
Funds for Better Use
0
Recommendation
9

Ensure the new processes developed in Recommendations 4, 5, 7, and 8 are adequately communicated, both in writing and via training, to impacted personnel.

Questioned Cost
0
Funds for Better Use
0
Nov 13, 2024
NFA Transmittal
4-617-25-017-R
Recommendation
1

We recommend that USAID/Uganda verify that The AIDS Support Organization Uganda Limited provides Uganda Protestant Medical Bureau with a copy of the audit report for their review and to take any corrective action regarding the one instance of material noncompliance identified on pages 37 and 38 of the audit report related to the subawards.

Questioned Cost
0
Funds for Better Use
0
Nov 13, 2024
NFA Transmittal
4-624-25-020-R
Recommendation
1

We recommend that USAID/West Africa verify that West African Health Organisation corrects the two material weaknesses in internal control detailed on pages 17 and 18 of the audit report.

Questioned Cost
0
Funds for Better Use
0
Nov 05, 2024
NFA Transmittal
4-660-25-013-R
Recommendation
1

We recommend that USAID/Democratic Republic of the Congo determine the allowability of $102,128 in ineligible questioned costs on pages 18 and 21 of the audit report and recover any amount that is unallowable.

Questioned Cost
102128
Funds for Better Use
0
Recommendation
2

We recommend that USAID/Democratic Republic of the Congo verify that SANRU ASBL corrects the one instance of material noncompliance detailed on page 34 of the audit report.

Questioned Cost
0
Funds for Better Use
0
Nov 04, 2024
NFA Transmittal
4-696-25-009-R
Recommendation
1

We recommend that USAID/Rwanda verify that Never Again Rwanda corrects the one instance of material noncompliance detailed on page 19 of the audit report.

Questioned Cost
0
Funds for Better Use
0
Oct 28, 2024
NFA Transmittal
3-000-25-006-I
Recommendation
1

We recommend that USAID's Office of Acquisition and Assistance Cost, Audit and Support Division/Contract Audit Management Branch verify that ICF Macro, Inc., corrects the one material weakness in
internal control detailed on page 8 of the audit report.

Questioned Cost
0
Funds for Better Use
0
Oct 28, 2024
NFA Transmittal
1-522-25-004-R
Recommendation
1

Determine the allowability of $103,913 in unsupported questioned costs on page 14 of the audit report and recover any amount that is unallowable.

Questioned Cost
103913
Funds for Better Use
0
Oct 28, 2024
NFA Transmittal
3-000-25-007-I
Recommendation
1

We recommend that USAID's Office of Acquisition and Assistance Cost, Audit and Support Division/Contract Audit Management BranchVerify that Chemonics International, Inc. corrects the material
weaknesses in internal control detailed on pages 11 to 12 of the audit report.

Questioned Cost
0
Funds for Better Use
0
Oct 22, 2024
NFA Transmittal
4-613-25-007-R
Recommendation
1

We recommend that USAID/Zimbabwe determine the allowability of $19,152 in ineligible questioned costs on pages 12 and 14 of the audit report and recover any amount that is unallowable.

Questioned Cost
19152
Funds for Better Use
0
Recommendation
2

We recommend that USAID/Zimbabwe verify that Hospice and Palliative Care Association of Zimbabwe corrects the two instances of material noncompliance detailed on pages 27 to 30 of the audit report.

Questioned Cost
0
Funds for Better Use
0
Recommendation
3

We recommend that USAID/Zimbabwe verify that Hospice and Palliative Care Association of Zimbabwe provides Union Zimbabwe Trust with a copy of the audit report for their review to determine the allowability of $2,995 in ineligible and $3,100 in unsupported questioned costs identified on page 14 related to the subaward and recover the amounts determined to be unallowable.

Questioned Cost
0
Funds for Better Use
0
Oct 22, 2024
NFA Transmittal
4-696-25-006-R
Recommendation
1

We recommend that USAID/Rwanda verify that Young Women Christian Association of Rwanda corrects the one instance of material noncompliance detailed on page 25 of the audit report.

Questioned Cost
0
Funds for Better Use
0