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Embassy San Salvador should hire and train a Spanish-speaking eligible family member to manage Leahy vetting.
Embassy San Salvador should develop and implement procedures for the use of working emails, record emails, and cables for communicating and reporting.
Embassy San Salvador should centralize information on all foreign assistance activities and designate who is responsible for monitoring each program and aligning program activities with embassy goals and objectives.
Embassy San Salvador should identify Department grants in the mission with a value of $100,000 or more and provide required grants management training to employees designated as grants officer representatives.
The Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs should review the San Salvador International Law Enforcement Academy’s balances, with particular attention to funds that have not been subobligated, and reprogram them as appropriate.
Embassy San Salvador should prepare a single daily news summary that meets the respective needs of embassy and Washington clients.
The Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations, in coordination with the Bureau of Consular Affairs, should implement Embassy San Salvador’s short-term consular space plan before the end of FY 2014.
The Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations, in coordination with the Bureau of Consular Affairs, should review the consular section’s medium-term space needs, determine whether construction of an annex is feasible, and establish an appropriate timeline.
Embassy San Salvador should prepare a cost-benefit analysis to determine whether outsourcing voucher processing to the Post Support Unit would result in cost savings, and share the results with the mission’s Interagency Cooperative Administrative Support Services council.
Embassy San Salvador should issue a management notice outlining Department policy concerning use of government telecommunications equipment for long-distance calls and personal use.
Embassy San Salvador should review the duty logs of offices and agencies exempted from participation in the embassy duty officer program and broaden the duty officer roster appropriately.
Embassy San Salvador, in coordination with the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, should conduct a cost-benefit analysis to determine whether outsourcing local position classification to a regional center in Frankfurt or Fort Lauderdale would result in cost savings or increased efficiency, and implement the lower cost option.
Embassy San Salvador should establish project plans, deployment schedules, and standard operating procedures in the information management office.