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Some info about Ann Calvaresi Barr, IG of USAID.

https://oig.usaid.gov/node/167

Inspector General Ann Calvaresi Barr leads the oversight of activities conducted by USAID, the U.S. African Development Foundation, the Inter-American Foundation, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation. In fiscal year 2017, USAID alone managed nearly $30 billion in budgetary resources to provide humanitarian assistance and advance economic growth and democracy around the world. Ms. Calvaresi Barr also works with the Inspectors General of the Department of State and the Department of Defense to coordinate each OIG’s activities under the Lead Inspector General for Overseas Contingency Operations initiative. Since taking office in November 2015, Ms. Calvaresi Barr has worked to strengthen OIG’s contributions to and support of integrity, efficiency, and effectiveness in the Nation’s complex foreign assistance programs and operations.

Ms. Calvaresi Barr previously served as the Deputy Inspector General at the U.S. Department of Transportation from 2010 to 2015. In that position, Ms. Calvaresi Barr provided leadership and direction of audits and investigations of transportation issues, as well as oversight of Office of Inspector General operational support activities. [More at link]

Wiki about duties of IG of USAID:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Inspector_General,_U.S._Agency_for_International_Development

Type of Fed employee, salary history etc:

https://www.federalpay.org/employees/dept-of-transportation-office-of-inspector-general/calvaresi-barr-ann-m

And this is interesting, posting excerpts, more at link:

https://www.devex.com/news/usaid-should-rethink-its-culture-of-partnership-with-implementers-inspector-general-says-95273

USAID should ‘rethink its culture of partnership with implementers,’ inspector general says

WASHINGTON — U.S. Agency for International Development Inspector General Ann Calvaresi Barr on Thursday called for a rethink in the way the agency works with implementers and outlined several key management challenges that are preventing the most efficient and effective use of its funds.

Barr spoke at a House Appropriations State and Foreign Operations subcommittee hearing focused on mismanagement at USAID and the State Department, which gave members of Congress an opportunity to get an update from the offices charged with oversight of U.S. foreign aid.

At the hearing, Barr gave a readout of the key management challenges for USAID that the IG had identified for fiscal year 2019: managing risk in humanitarian and stabilization assistance, analysis and planning around country capacity to ensure sustainability, reconciling interagency priorities and the integrity of its financial and information systems, Barr said.

USAID has responded to some of the IG recommendations and in some cases made foundational changes, including strict requirements for implementer awards, stronger standards for overseeing U.N. agencies, shoring up a commodities supply chain, promptly responding to identify diversions of funding to terrorist organizations, and focusing on requirements for reporting sexual exploitation or abuse of beneficiaries, she said.

Despite that “the agency needs to rethink its culture of partnership with implementers. No doubt they are critical to USAID’s mission but it must first ensure implementers fully understand the requirements that they are entrusted with and expected to carry out. Ultimately USAID must be the first line of defense but they must also hold others they rely on accountable,” Barr said.

In June 2017, the IG’s office released a memorandum outlining “potential areas of concern” about the contract’s financial protocols that “may expose the program to possible fraud and abuse.”

At the hearing, Barr said the IG’s office has uncovered a number of risks associated with the logistics of delivering lifesaving health products, storage facilities, and record-keeping. Its audits into the contract and into challenges in Africa’s global health supply chain are ongoing. Thus far the investigations have led to 41 arrests and 30 indictments and led the global health bureau to have a third party monitor overseeing health supply commodities in eight African countries.