EDA Should Develop a Workforce Plan and Improve its Hiring Accountability to Successfully Award and Administer the Disaster Supplemental Funds Appropriated by the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018

For our final report on our audit of the Economic Development Administration’s (EDA’s) Disaster Relief Workforce Planning, our audit objective was to determine whether EDA’s workforce planning process for awarding and administering the Disaster Supplemental funds was adequate and effective. We found that (1) EDA has not developed and implemented a comprehensive workforce plan to meet the current and future needs of the organization and (2) EDA’s recruitment efforts are significantly behind its established milestones to ensure that EDA has adequate staff available to handle the increased workload.