Audit of USAID Sudan’s Civil Society Program

OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL AUDIT OF USAID/SUDAN’S CIVIL SOCIETY PROGRAM AUDIT REPORT NO. 4-650-09-006-P May 21, 2009 PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA Office of Inspector General May 21, 2009 MEMORANDUM TO: USAID/Sudan, Mission Director, William Hammink FROM: Regional Inspector General/Pretoria, Nathan Lokos /s/ SUBJECT: Audit of USAID/Sudan’s Civil Society Program (Report No. 4-650-09-006-P) This memorandum transmits our final report on the subject audit. In finalizing our report, we considered your comments on our draft report and have included your response in its entirety as appendix II. The report includes three recommendations that USAID/Sudan: (1) provide training for partners to properly record and report on program results and maintain source documentation; (2) establish procedures to ensure that performance management plans are complete and provide for data quality testing; and (3) establish procedures requiring implementing partners to report results for performance indicators consistent with the indicators in USAID’s performance report. In your response to the draft report, you provided corrective action plans addressing all three recommendations. Therefore, we consider that management decisions have been reached on these recommendations. Please provide the Office of Audit, Performance, and Compliance Division (M/CFO/APC) with the necessary documentation to achieve final ...