Audit of USAID Tanzania’s PEPFAR-Funded Activities and Commodities for the Prevention of Mother-to-Child

OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL AUDIT OF USAID/TANZANIA’S PEPFAR-FUNDED ACTIVITIES AND COMMODITIES FOR THE PREVENTION OF MOTHER-TO-CHILD TRANSMISSION OF HIV AUDIT REPORT NO. 4-621-09-008-P August 28, 2009 PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA Office of Inspector General August 28, 2009 MEMORANDUM TO: USAID/Tanzania, Mission Director, Robert Cunnane FROM: Regional Inspector General/Pretoria, Nathan S. Lokos /s/ SUBJECT: Audit of USAID/Tanzania’s PEPFAR-Funded Activities and Commodities for the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV (Report No. 4-621-09-008-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 makes seven recommendations, advising USAID/Tanzania to: 1. Develop a plan to provide training on the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV to implementing partners and service providers on how to properly record and report program results, maintain source documents, and avoid mathematical errors. 2. Establish procedures to ensure that performance management plans are complete and provide for data quality testing. 3. data quality assessments are completed in a timely manner in accordance with applicable guidance. 4 Establish procedures to ensure that site visits provide for data quality testing and ...