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GAO-18-532R 1 (2018-06-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacpla0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GA O U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Washington, DC 20548 June 15, 2018 Congressional Committees State and USAID: Status of GAO Recommendations Made in 2015 and 2016 Senate Report 115-152 accompanying the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Bill, 2018, includes a provision for us to report on the status of all recommendations made to the U.S. Department of State (State) and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in GAO reports issued during calendar years 2015 and 2016.1 This report provides the total number of recommendations we made to State and to USAID in those 2 years, how many of those recommendations remain open for each agency, and which ones we consider priority recommendations. Priority recommendations are those that GAO believes warrant priority attention from heads of key departments and agencies. To address our objective, we used GAO's Business Analytics database to identify all recommendations made to State and USAID in 2015 and 2016, how many GAO deemed priority recommendations, and the status of the recommendations as of their most recent updates. We shared this information with State and USAID to ascertain that the most recent State and USAID actions were reflected in the enclosures detailing the status of the individual recommendations. We conducted this performance audit from April 2018 to June 2018 in accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain sufficient, appropriate evidence to provide a reasonable basis for our findings and conclusions based on our audit objectives. We believe that the evidence obtained provides a reasonable basis for our findings and conclusions based on our audit objectives. In summary, during calendar years 2015 and 2016, GAO made a combined total of 132 recommendations to State and USAID. Of the 82 recommendations made to State, 37 (about 45 percent) were still open as of June 7, 2018, and 10 of those were priority recommendations (see table 1). Table 1: Status of Recommendations Made to the U.S. Department of State in GAO Products Issued in Calendar Years 2015 and 2016 No. of recommendations (Priority recommendations) 2015 2016 Total Recommendations made 43(6) 39(15) 82(21) Recommendations implemented 26(3) 19(8) 45(11) Recommendations open 17(3) 20(7) 37(10) Source: GAO. I GAO-18-532R Note: Status of recommendations, whether implemented or open, is as of June 7, 2018. 1S. Rep. No. 115-152, at 12 (2017) (accompanying S.1780, 115th Cong. (2017)), which is related to the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018, Pub. L. No. 115-141 (Mar. 23, 2018). GAO-18-532R State and USAID Page I

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