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Open Recommendations (29 total)

Haiti: USAID and State Should Improve Management and Assessment of Reconstruction Activities

GAO-23-105211
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U.S. Agency for International Development The Administrator of USAID should ensure that USAID/Haiti develops a process to track and assess consistent and complete results information for infrastructure activities, such as the final outputs, outcomes, costs, time frames, and lessons learned. (Recommendation 2)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

Federal Software Licenses: Agencies Need to Take Action to Achieve Additional Savings

GAO-24-105717
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U.S. Agency for International Development The Administrator of USAID should ensure that the agency consistently compares the inventories of software licenses that are currently in use with information on purchased licenses to identify opportunities to reduce costs and better inform investment decision making for its widely used licenses on a regular basis. At a minimum, it should develop and implement procedures for comparing the inventories of licenses in use to purchase records. (Recommendation 18)
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U.S. Agency for International Development concurred with this recommendation and stated that the agency recently implemented a software asset management solution to track software licenses purchased and is actively working on a process and an automated solution to consistently compare the inventories of software licenses in use to purchase records. As of March 2024, the agency stated that it plans to provide a statement of actions on this recommendation on July 27, 2024. We will continue to monitor the agency's efforts to fully implement this recommendation.

Micro, Small, and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development: USAID Needs to Develop a Targeting Process and Improve the Reliability of Its Monitoring

GAO-21-269
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U.S. Agency for International Development The USAID Administrator should direct the Private Sector Engagement Hub or other appropriate entity to develop a methodology to ensure that it collects data from all relevant missions and bureaus with micro, small, and medium-sized enterprise assistance. (Recommendation 5)
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In USAID's letter responding to our report, USAID concurred with this recommendation. The Fiscal Year 2020 MSME Results Report, completed after our report issued in 2021, noted that USAID planned to change its methodology for data collection of MSME results. Specifically, for the Fiscal Year 2020 and 2021 MSME Results Reports, it used missions' and bureaus' Operational Plans to identify planned spending on MSME assistance, including for the very poor and women. USAID used relevant performance indicators in the Performance Plan and Reports (PPRs) to collect data from missions and bureaus who had reported on MSME-related indicators. However, the data collection for the Fiscal Year 2020 and 2021 MSME Results Reports declined, which suggests that this new process is not yet capturing all relevant assistance. We will continue to monitor USAID's implementation of this recommendation.

Haiti: USAID and State Should Improve Management and Assessment of Reconstruction Activities

GAO-23-105211
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U.S. Agency for International Development The Administrator of USAID should ensure that USAID/Haiti establishes a process to completely and consistently track and analyze data on awards made to local organizations, such as the amount and percent of total funding awarded and the percent of total awards provided to these organizations. (Recommendation 4)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
U.S. Agency for International Development The Administrator of USAID should ensure that USAID/Haiti systematically tracks information on the activities that the mission funds to strengthen organizational capacity of Haitian organizations, including which activities USAID funds, and basic information about these activities, such as key interventions, entities involved, results achieved, and lessons learned. (Recommendation 5)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

Central America: USAID Should Strengthen Staffing and Fraud Risk Management for Initiative Addressing Migration to the U.S.

GAO-24-106232
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U.S. Agency for International Development The Administrator of USAID should work with the Secretary of State to institute long-term human capital solutions to address FSN staffing shortages in carrying out Centroamérica Local. (Recommendation 1)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

Micro, Small, and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development: USAID Needs to Develop a Targeting Process and Improve the Reliability of Its Monitoring

GAO-21-269
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U.S. Agency for International Development The USAID Administrator should direct the Private Sector Engagement Hub or other appropriate entity to take steps to ensure the reliability of the micro, small, and medium-sized enterprise assistance data reported to Congress. (Recommendation 6)
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In USAID's letter responding to our report, USAID concurred with this recommendation and identified plans to address it. USAID's letter stated that the full incorporation of data collection procedures in the PPR and use of standard foreign assistance indicators would provide reasonable assurance that the data in MSME Results Reports is reliable, noting that all PPR data is required to have a data quality assessment in order to meet USAID's data quality standards. However, USAID still needs to finalize new definitions and conduct data quality assessments on the revised indicators. We will continue to monitor USAID's implementation of this recommendation.

Central America: USAID Should Strengthen Staffing and Fraud Risk Management for Initiative Addressing Migration to the U.S.

GAO-24-106232
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U.S. Agency for International Development The Administrator of USAID should ensure that agencywide guidance requires regular fraud risk assessments for its programs—including programs supporting USAID initiatives—as well as documentation of program-specific fraud risk profiles in accordance with leading practices in the Fraud Risk Framework. (Recommendation 2)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
U.S. Agency for International Development The Administrator of USAID should ensure that agencywide guidance requires the regular provision of, and tracking of participation in, mandatory fraud awareness training for USAID staff involved in administering foreign assistance as well as for representatives of all partner organizations implementing the assistance. (Recommendation 3)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

USAID: Management Improvements Needed to Better Meet Global Health Mission

GAO-23-105178
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U.S. Agency for International Development The USAID Administrator should ensure that the Assistant Administrator for Global Health develops and implements a workforce plan for the Bureau. Such a plan could communicate the Bureau's optimal mix of direct hire and non-direct hire staff, as well as senior leaders; outline key actions to better align its staffing with its mission, priorities, and funding; and identify how it plans to address persistent vacancies in CS positions and the underrepresentation of certain racial or ethnic groups in its workforce. (Recommendation 1)
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In its response to our report, USAID concurred with this recommendation. We will monitor USAID's implementation of this recommendation and provide updated information on its progress.
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