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GAO-20-486PR 1 (2020-04-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaeayh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States April 13, 2020 John Barsa Acting Administrator U.S. Agency for International Development 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20523 Priority Open Recommendations: U.S. Agency for International Development Dear Mr. Barsa: The purpose of this letter is to provide an update on the overall status of the U.S. Agency for International Development's (USAID) implementation of GAO's recommendations and to call your personal attention to areas where open recommendations should be given high priority.1 In November 2019, we reported that on a government-wide basis, 77 percent of our recommendations made 4 years ago were implemented. 2 USAI D's implementation rate for the same timeframe was 97 percent. As of April 2020, USAID had 12 open recommendations. Fully implementing all open recommendations could significantly improve USAID's operations. Since our April 2019 letter, USAID has implemented four of our five open priority recommendations. Three of these recommendations were from March 2014 and stemmed from our work reviewing USAID's food aid prepositioning program, and the fourth was from our March 2017 work reviewing USAID's oversight of international food assistance projects. We believe that these efforts have improved USAID's monitoring and assessment of costs associated with food aid projects. USAID has one open priority recommendation remaining from those we identified in our April 2019 letter. (See the enclosure.) We ask for your continued attention on this remaining recommendation. We are also adding two new recommendations related to project performance data collection and USAID reform efforts, bringing the total number of priority recommendations to three. (See enclosure for the list of recommendations.) The three priority recommendations fall into the following three areas. 1Priority recommendations are those that GAO believes warrant priority attention from heads of key departments or agencies. They are highlighted because, upon implementation, they may significantly improve government operation, for example, by realizing large dollar savings; eliminating mismanagement, fraud, and abuse; or making progress toward addressing a high-risk or duplication issue. 2GAO, Performance and Accountability Report: Fiscal Year 2019 GAO-20-1 SP (Washington, D.C.: Nov.19, 2019). GAO-20-486PR USAID Priority Recommendations Page 1

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