USAID OIG has issued their Top Management Challenges Annual Report which reviews FY24 audit findings and recommendations in identifying challenges to be addressed in FY 25.
Challenges:
- Measuring effectiveness, tracking results, and improving sustainability of U.S. Foreign Assistance
- What to expect:
- Greater coordination of third-party monitoring and sharing lessons learned
- Continued efforts to facilitate moving from short-term humanitarian to long-term development assistance
- Continued prioritization of preventing sexual exploitation and abuse as well as countering trafficking in persons
- Tightened oversight of subcontractor/subawardee indirect cost rates
- Tightened oversight of implementers’ currency exchange transactions
- What to expect:
- Relying on the UN and other PIOs to distribute U.S.-funded aid in unstable or inaccessible environments
- What to expect:
- PIOs will provide same level of access to same level of information that USAID receives from NGOs and development contractors
- PIOs providing timely disclosure to OIG, as expected from other implementers
- What to expect:
- Hiring and retaining skilled staff and adapting programming to address emerging priorities
- What to expect:
- Staffing based on more strategic workforce planning
- What not to expect:
- OIG calls out the constraints imposed by Congressional Earmarks on USAID program flexibility. This is a long-standing issue that is part of the underlying “laws of physics” inside the Beltway in which Congress will not relinquish any oversight controls on their budget and the Administration.
- What to expect:
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