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GAO-22-105799 1 (2022-05-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaoncp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ctAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States May 18, 2022 The Honorable Samantha Power 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 Administrator Power: 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 continued attention to areas where open recommendations should be given high priority.1 In November 2021, we reported that, on a government-wide basis, 76 percent of our recommendations made 4 years ago were implemented.2 USAID's recommendation implementation rate was 100 percent. As of April 2022, USAID had 29 open recommendations. Fully implementing these open recommendations could significantly improve agency operations. Since our April 2021 letter, USAID has implemented all three of our open priority recommendations related to workforce trend analysis, senior leadership attention to diversity, and analysis of financial data on the timeliness of expenditures. We are adding two new priority recommendations related to establishing performance measures to assess progress of the global food security initiative. (See enclosure for the list of recommendations and actions needed to implement them.) The two priority recommendations fall into the following area. Establishing performance measures. Each new priority recommendation would help improve USAID's ability to use performance data to assess Feed the Future's (FTF) performance. We believe that it is important that USAID and its 11 federal partner agencies monitor FTF's performance as an interconnected whole, with FTF-wide performance goals clearly linked to performance indicators with measurable targets. Implementing these recommendations will help ensure that USAID and its partner agencies can meaningfully use and interpret performance indicator data to assess and report on progress toward FTF's performance goals and overall strategic mission. 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 2021, GAO-22-4SP (Washington, D.C.: Nov. 15, 2021). GAO-22-105799 USAID Priority Recommendations Page 1

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