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GAO-23-106534 1 (2023-05-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaoopt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States May 9, 2023 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 (USAID) implementation of GAO's recommendations and to call your continued personal attention to areas where open recommendations should be given high priority.1 In November 2022, we reported that, on a government-wide basis, 77 percent of our recommendations made 4 years ago were implemented.2 USAID's recommendation implementation rate was 100 percent over this period. As of April 2023, USAID had 31 open recommendations. Fully implementing these open recommendations could significantly improve agency operations. Since our May 2022 letter, two priority recommendations remain open. We ask that you direct your continued attention to these two priority recommendations. (See enclosure for the list of recommendations.) The two recommendations fall into the following area. Establishing performance goals and targets. Both priority recommendations would help improve USAID's ability to use performance data to assess Feed the Future's (FTF) performance. We maintain that it is important that USAID and its 11 federal partner agencies monitor FTF's performance as an interconnected whole. Specifically, we recommended that USAID, in consultation with its partner agencies, establish FTF-wide performance goals and set measurable targets for performance indicators. Implementing these recommendations will help ensure that USAID and its partner agencies can meaningfully use performance indicator data to assess and report on progress toward FTF's 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 operations, 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 2022, GAO-23-900398 (Washington, D.C.: Nov. 15, 2022). GAO-23-106534 USAID Priority Recommendations Page 1

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