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.
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IG Barr could have save some ink by simply stating: don't do binez with Clinton Global Intiative, George Soros NGOs, or blackivy foundation
we should just shutter yet another useless, dysfunctional, anti-American federal agency..
Absolutely.
Wonder why she didn’t, ever, and does not now, publicly?
I think she will maybe turn out to be retained, figure headed, but used as a Witness, surely as a trove for evidence of that which she has seen and possibly unseen, in order to collect her pay check.
Her little peeps surfacing now, about “risks”, seem a little grasping given the scales of justice being balanced by Attorney General Barr.