Audit of USAID’s Participant Training Activities

Audit of USAID’s Participant Training Activities Audit Report Number 9-000-04-005-P September 9, 2004 Washington, D.C. September 9, 2004 MEMORANDUM FOR: EGAT/ED, Director, John A. Grayzel FROM: IG/A/PA Director, Nathan S. Lokos /s/ SUBJECT: Audit of USAID’s Participant Training Activities (Report No. 9-000-04-005-P) This memorandum transmits our final audit report on the subject audit. In finalizing the report, we considered your comments on our draft report and have included this as Appendix II. The report contains four recommendations to strengthen USAID’s management of its participant training activities. In your written comments, you concurred with these recommendations. Accordingly, management decisions have been reached on all four recommendations. Moreover, for Recommendations No. 2, 3 & 4, you identified appropriate actions taken to address each recommendation, and provided us with documents to evidence that the actions were taken. Therefore, we consider those recommendations to be closed upon issuance of this report. Concerning Recommendation No. 1, additional action relating to the requirement for entry of non-returnee information into SEVIS is pending. Please coordinate final action with M/MPI. This capping report summarizes seven individual audits of participant training activities and makes significant recommendations that for the first time will result in (a) background ...