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Embassy Budapest should establish a periodic process to assess and report to the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs and the ambassador/chargé d'affaires progress toward meeting the goals of the Integrated Country Strategy.
Embassy Budapest, in coordination with the Foreign Service Institute, School of Language Studies, should develop a plan to ensure that all officers arriving at the embassy have the ability to carry out their duties at the designated skill level.
Embassy Budapest, in coordination with the Foreign Service Institute, School of Language Studies, should update the Hungarian consular module to reflect current vocabulary and conversational skills.
Embassy Budapest should return performance-rating duties for the environment, science, technology and health hub officer to the deputy chief of mission.
Embassy Budapest, in coordination with the Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs and the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, should create a separate budget for the environment, science, technology and health hub’s regional travel requirements.
Embassy Budapest, in coordination with the Bureau of Consular Affairs, should implement a final staffing plan and reporting structure for the consular section.
Embassy Budapest should rewrite position descriptions of the consular staff to match new responsibilities.
Embassy Budapest should develop individual training plans for consular staff to eliminate gaps in substantive and procedural knowledge.
Embassy Budapest should, in coordination with the Bureau of Consular Affairs, Office of Overseas Citizens Service, update its warden program to reflect changes in communications capabilities.
Embassy Budapest, in coordination with the Bureau of Consular Affairs, should develop standard operating procedures for funding emergency consular services and repatriations.
Embassy Budapest should require the financial management office to perform all functions required as the post’s designated billing office.
Embassy Budapest should review its Integrated Logistics Management System supply-chain management workflow and eliminate unnecessary steps, while maintaining adequate internal controls.
Embassy Budapest should establish and monitor a “due in” receiving file.
Embassy Budapest should assess and determine the adequate level of cashier advances, placing special emphasis on reducing the volume of cash purchases and employing non-cash methods to reduce the Class B cashier’s and facilities maintenance subcashier’s advances and accountability.
Embassy Budapest should implement a policy of direct payment of salaries to official residence expense employees by the ambassador and deputy chief of mission.
Embassy Budapest should promulgate a new representational policy, in accordance with Department of State regulations, that allows direct payment to vendors of representation expenses.
The Bureau of the Comptroller and Global Financial Services should determine and assign financial liability for Budapest Bank Center Building lease termination penalty payments.
Embassy Budapest should engage a local labor lawyer to review its draft locally employed staff compensation, local leave, and separation plans, in terms of recent changes to Hungarian labor law, and submit the amended plan to the Bureau of Human Resources for review.
Embassy Budapest should clarify its leave policy in writing and direct supervisors to administer it fairly and consistently.
Embassy Budapest should require the human resources staff to implement controls and establish a schedule to remind supervisors to submit locally employed staff evaluations by the due dates.
Embassy Budapest should implement a plan to maintain control of stock inventory and to strengthen safeguards and control of property.
Embassy Budapest should affix bar-code labels to all items immediately upon receipt.
The Bureau of Administration should review the dispatching documentation required of the Fleet Management Information System and 14 FAM 430, and eliminate requirements that are redundant and unnecessary.
Embassy Budapest should implement a plan for safety training and medical certification of chauffeurs and incidental drivers.
Embassy Budapest should develop a structured process to track the progress of the information technology portion of the chancery expansion project.
Embassy Budapest should update the employee association charter to reflect services provided, review provisions of the license agreement to reflect agreement on how to share responsibilities, and submit them to the Office of Commissary and Recreation Affairs for approval.