Audit of USAID Zambias Global Development Alliances

Audit of USAID/Zambia’s Global Development Alliances Audit Report Number 9-611-05-002-P December 28, 2004 Washington, D.C. December 28, 2004 MEMORANDUM FOR: USAID/Zambia Director, James F. Bednar FROM: IG/A/PA Director, Nathan S. Lokos /s/ SUBJECT: Audit of USAID/Zambia’s Global Development Alliances (Report No. 9-611-05-002-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 in Appendix II. This report includes three recommendations to: 1) report required Global Development Alliance (GDA) information in USAID/Zambia’s Annual Report, 2) maintain documentation to support reported GDAs, and 3) revise targets and indicators for one GDA. In your written comments, you concurred with all three recommendations. Regarding Recommendations No. 1 and 2, we determined that the planned actions you identified, when properly implemented, will address our concerns. Accordingly, management decisions have been reached on each of these recommendations. Please provide documentation supporting final action on Recommendations No. 1 and 2 to USAID’s Office of Management Planning and Innovation. Regarding Recommendation No. 3, we determined that the modification to the cooperative agreement in ...