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Open Recommendations (41 total)

Cloud Computing: Agencies Need to Address Key OMB Procurement Requirements

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U.S. Agency for International Development The Administrator of USAID should ensure that the CIO of USAID updates guidance to put a cloud SLA in place with every vendor when a cloud solution is deployed. The guidance should include language that addresses OMB's required elements for SLAs, including: remediation plans for non-compliance. (Recommendation 46)
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Ukraine: State and USAID Should Improve Processes for Ensuring Partners Can Perform Required Work

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U.S. Agency for International Development The Administrator of USAID should ensure that the Office of the General Counsel and the Bureau for Planning, Learning, and Resource Management establish a requirement in USAID's operational policy for USAID award officials to periodically monitor the implementation of public international organization implementing partners' procedures for screening sub-partners for past performance when selecting them for sub-awards. (Recommendation 5)
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Human Trafficking: Agencies Need to Adopt a Systematic Approach to Manage Risks in Contracts

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U.S. Agency for International Development The Administrator of USAID should ensure that the Senior Procurement Executive reviews a subset of contracts to determine whether contracting officials have implemented federal anti-trafficking requirements, including incorporating the certification provision in covered solicitations and obtaining contractor anti-trafficking certifications prior to award and annually thereafter. (Recommendation 8)
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U.S. Agency for International Development The Administrator of USAID should ensure that the Senior Procurement Executive, in consultation with agency trafficking experts, develops and implements a systematic approach to managing trafficking risks in procurements. This approach should include

  • identifying and analyzing procurements for their level of trafficking risk,
  • developing responses to address those risks, such as obtaining contractor anti-trafficking compliance plans and verifying contractor implementation of requirements, and
  • communicating this information to contracting officials.

(Recommendation 4)

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Wildlife Trafficking: Agencies Should Improve Efforts to Protect Human Rights in Overseas Activities

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U.S. Agency for International Development The Administrator of USAID should ensure that implementing partners for awards with ranger activities that require social safeguards plans include information in periodic monitoring reports for USAID on the status of implementation of project social safeguard mechanisms and any steps taken to assess their effectiveness. This should include information on any issues encountered, resolutions, and lessons learned. (Recommendation 4)
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Wildlife Trafficking: Agencies Should Improve Efforts to Protect Human Rights in Overseas Activities

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U.S. Agency for International Development The Administrator of USAID should take steps to ensure that implementing partners for awards with ranger activities meet the established timeframes to provide social safeguards plans. (Recommendation 1)
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Foreign Assistance: USAID Should Strengthen Risk Management in Conflict Zones

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U.S. Agency for International Development The USAID Administrator should ensure that the USAID Somalia mission conducts comprehensive assessments of fraud risks relevant to its programs and develops program-specific fraud risk profiles based on those assessments. (Recommendation 4)
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U.S. Agency for International Development The USAID Administrator should develop a mechanism for systematically sharing lessons learned among conflict-affected missions related to the management of risks that are common across conflict zones. (Recommendation 9)
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