Open Recommendations

Embassy Malabo should bring its property management program into compliance with Department standards.

Embassy Malabo should bring its furniture and appliance pool program into compliance with Department standards.

Embassy Malabo should administer its housing program, in accordance with Department standards.

Embassy Malabo should implement internal controls for residential generator fuel deliveries and storage, in accordance with Department standards.

Embassy Malabo should bring its motor vehicle safety program into compliance with Department standards.

Embassy Malabo should bring the motor pool preventive maintenance program into compliance with Department standards.

Embassy Malabo should implement management controls for its fuel card program, in accordance with Department standards.

Embassy Malabo should bring its contracting officer's representative program for the local employee health insurance contract into compliance with Department standards.

Embassy Malabo should safeguard and dispose of controlled substances, in accordance with Department guidelines.

Embassy Malabo should manage medication inventory and processes, in accordance with Department guidelines and develop and adhere to a Pharmaceutical Disposal Plan.

Embassy Malabo, in coordination with the Bureau of Global Talent Management, should update its local compensation plan, in accordance with Department standards.

Embassy Malabo should establish and administer a training program for its locally employed staff, in accordance with Department guidelines.

Embassy Malabo should require authorizing officials to approve staff requests for overtime in advance, in accordance with Department guidance.

Embassy Malabo should adhere to the Department's recruitment standards for locally employed staff positions.

Embassy Malabo, in coordination with the Bureau of Global Talent Management, should consult with local legal counsel and establish and implement a policy that adheres to Department and host country regulations for management of its third-country national staff.

Embassy Malabo should provide workplace safety training for supervisors and employees, as required by Department guidance.

Embassy Malabo should bring its fire protection program into compliance with Department standards.

Embassy Malabo should review and de-obligate all invalid unliquidated obligations without activity for more than 1 year, in accordance with Department guidance, so that funds of up to $317,000 can be put to better use.

Embassy Malabo should clear overdue travel advances, in accordance with Department guidelines and put funds of up to $22,218 to better use.

Embassy Malabo should bring its cashier operations into compliance with Department standards.

Embassy Malabo should require its locally employed staff to complete the required position-specific training, in accordance with Department standards.

Embassy Malabo should budget for and purchase battery backup replacements, and spare or replacement printers and computers, as required by Department guidance.

Embassy Malabo should implement a records management program that complies with Department standards.

Embassy Malabo should permanently repair its high frequency radio and conduct weekly high frequency radio checks, in accordance with Department standards.

We recommend that the FEMA Administrator direct FEMA Regions to:• begin administrative closeout of the 26 grant programs we identified with expired periods of performance to the extent permitted by the Stafford Act, for those with no pending requests for extension or lacking acceptable justifications for extension, and deobligate the associated $9.4 million in remaining funds;• assess and close, as appropriate, the 42 grant programs in our scope representing $7 billion in unliquidated funding; and• conduct a review of all authorized grant programs with expired periods of performance to determine whether to administratively closeout and deobligate remaining fund balances, to…