Audit of USAID Malawis Performance Monitoring forIndicators Appearing in the Fiscal Year 2002 Results

memorandumRegional Inspector General Pretoria October 19, 2000 Director, USAID/Malawi, Kiertisak Toh Regional Inspector General/Pretoria, Joseph Farinella Audit of USAID/Malawi’s Performance Monitoring for Indicators Appearing in the Fiscal Year 2002 Results Review and Resource Request Report, Report Number 4-612-01-001-P This is the final report on the subject audit. We received your comments to our draft report and included those comments as Appendix II to this report. This report contains four recommendations on which management decisions have been reached. Please notify M/MPI when final action is complete. I appreciate the cooperation and courtesies extended to my staff during the audit. Background The Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (Results Act) was passed to improve federal program effectiveness and public accountability by promoting a new focus on results, service quality, and customer satisfaction. The Results Act should also improve federal managers’ service delivery by requiring that they plan for meeting program objectives and by providing them with information about program results and service quality. Congressional decision making should also be improved by receipt of more objective information on the status of efforts to achieve statutory objectives and on the relative effectiveness and efficiency of federal programs and spending. In 1995, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) developed a new reporting ...