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Appendix 2 – Recommendations Pending ManagementDecisionsUSAID OIG establishes the basis for audit findings and recommendations to persuade Agencyofficials that recommended corrective actions are warranted. Agency officials communicate theiragreement or disagreement with OIG recommendations upon review of draft OIG reports. WhenAgency officials agree with an OIG recommendation and present a plan of action with milestonesthat would fully address the recommendation, OIG determines that a management decision hasbeen reached.The following OIG recommendations were pending management decisions as of June 30, 2012.USAID management decisions were pending on 13 recommendations related to Agency programsin Afghanistan and on 12 relating to Pakistan. The following table lists these recommendations bycountry and by the USAID office to which the recommendation was directed. Recommendationsthat have been pending management decisions longest are listed first.ReportDateAfghanistanUSAID/AfghanistanReport Title*Recommendation02/15/12 Financial Audit of Local (non-U.S.) Costs(Costs Incurred and Paid in Afghanistan)Under USAID Contract No. 306-I-00-06-00517-00 With the Joint Venture LouisBerger Group Inc./Black & Veatch Corp.for the Period October 1, 2009, toSeptember 30, 2010 (F-306-12-004-N)1. Determine the allowability of and recover, asappropriate, questioned costs of $2,196,583 identifiedin the fund accountability statement.2. Ensure that the Joint Venture Louis Berger GroupInc./Black & Veatch Special Projects Corp. (LBGI/B&V)corrects the 20 material weaknesses and 8 significantdeficiencies identified in the report.3. Ensure that LBGI/B&V corrects the four materialinstances of noncompliance identified in the report.05/12/12 Financial Audit of Local Costs Incurred byInternational Relief and Development Inc.Under the Strategic Provincial Roads—Southern and Eastern Afghanistan Program,Cooperative Agreement No. 306-A-00-08-00509-00, for the Period October 1, 2009,to September 30, 2010 (F-306-12-006-N)1. Determine whether the costs incurred by InternationalRelief and Development Inc. under the StrategicProvincial Roads—Southern and Eastern Afghanistanduring the period October 1, 2009, to September 30,2010, were reasonable in relation to the program goalsand objectives.USAID OIG Afghanistan and Pakistan Oversight Report 31
ReportDateReport Title*Recommendation06/25/12 Audit of USAID/Afghanistan's InternalControls in the Administration of theInvoluntary Separate MaintenanceAllowance (F-306-12-003-P)1. Develop, implement, and document controls to helpconfirm that the involuntary separate maintenanceallowance applications approved for personal servicecontractors are properly authorized and comply withSection 260 of the Department of State StandardizedRegulations.4. Reassess controls over involuntary separatemaintenance allowance payments and make anyadjustments necessary to strengthen the effectivenessof those controls in preventing improper payments.8. Calculate and recover the home leave travel costs paidfor dependent family members of the two U.S. directhireemployees who already had involuntary separatemaintenance allowance authorized for thosedependents.9. Develop, implement, and document controls to helpprevent the authorization of Foreign Service benefitsthat are incompatible with involuntary separatemaintenance allowance for mission employees’ familymembers.10. Review all employees receiving involuntary separatemaintenance allowance in FYs 2010, 2011, and 2012 todetermine whether those employees or theirdependent family members received incompatibleForeign Service benefits, and recover any incompatiblebenefits paid.06/29/12 Audit of USAID/Afghanistan's IncentivesDriving Economic Alternatives for theNorth, East, and West Program(F-306-12-004-P)1. Assess the focus and location of program activities, asnecessary, to maximize the program’s contribution todissuading Afghans from growing poppies, and defineand use intermediate results, performance indicators,baselines, and targets to assess progress toward thatunderlying objective.5. Develop and implement a risk-based monitoring planfor the program that includes periodic site visits.32 USAID OIG Afghanistan and Pakistan Oversight Report
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Afghanistan has one of the highest
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contractor estimated that cost over
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Audit of USAID/Pakistan’s Energy
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establishing a distribution policy,
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Although USAID carried out numerous
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