DOS - AUD-CGI-20-12 - 1

OIG recommends that the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, Office of the Coordinator for Assistance to Europe and Eurasia, develop and implement standard operating procedures (a) to verify that its implementing partners have appropriate procedures in place for managing, monitoring, and evaluating the outcomes pertaining to the use of foreign assistance funds, commensurate with 18 FAM 301.4-2, “Program Project/Design” 18 FAM 301.4-3, “Monitoring,” and 18 FAM 301.4-4, “Evaluation,” and (b) to outline how and what information ACE will obtain from its implementing partners to ensure the sound management of foreign assistance funds provided to its implementing partners, as required by 18 FAM 301.4-6(B)(a), “Transfer of Foreign Assistance Funds,” which at a minimum include sufficient monitoring data associated with the funds to determine if adequate progress and results are being achieved and any evaluation findings related to the outcomes achieved with the funds.