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GAO-20-504R 1 (2020-04-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaeban0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Washington, DC 20548 April 30, 2020 Congressional Committees State and USAID: Status of GAO Recommendations Made in 2018 Senate Report 116-126 accompanying the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Bill, 2020, includes a provision for us to report on the status of all outstanding 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 year 2018.1 This report provides the total number of recommendations we made to State and to USAID in 2018, how many of those recommendations remain open for each agency, and which ones we consider priority recommendations. Priority recommendations are those that we believe warrant priority attention from heads of key departments and agencies. To address our objective, we used our Business Analytics database to identify all recommendations made to State and USAID in 2018,2 how many of them we deemed priority recommendations, and the status of the recommendations as of their most recent updates. We compared this list with information provided by State and USAID, and coordinated with these agencies to ensure that we reflected the most recent State and USAID actions in the enclosures detailing the status of the individual recommendations. We will continue to update the status of open recommendations throughout the year on our website https://www.gao.gov/reports- testimonies/recommendations-database!. We conducted this performance audit from January 2020 to April 2020 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, as shown in table 1, during calendar year 2018, we made a combined 51 recommendations to State and USAID. Of the 36 recommendations made to State, 11 (31 percent) were still open as of April 2020, two of which are priority recommendations. Of the 15 recommendations made to USAID, two (13 percent) were still open as of April 2020, neither of which is a priority recommendation. 1S. Rep. No. 116-126, at 19 (2019) 2This report provides updates on recommendations made in our publicly available reports from calendar year 2018. GAO-20-504R State and USAID Recommendations Page 1

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