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Embassy Kampala, in coordination with the Bureaus of Overseas Buildings Operations and Diplomatic Security, should cap U.S. direct-hire positions at the existing level and avoid a net increase until it provides suitable and secure workspace or obtains the appropriate waivers.
Embassy Kampala should require an employee in each section of the embassy to take Foreign Service Institute course PK247, Contact Database Training, and to share responsibility for managing the contact database.
Embassy Kampala should reassess portfolio assignments in the political/economic section and establish clear supervisory arrangements for its locally employed staff members.
The Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator, in coordination with the Bureau of Human Resources and Embassy Kampala, should convert the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief coordinator to a direct-hire position.
Embassy Kampala should submit a public diplomacy implementation plan to the Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs.
Embassy Kampala should revise the position descriptions of the program coordinator (position 101669) and the cultural affairs assistant (position 600063) to include adequate monitoring and online recording of grants.
Embassy Kampala should analyze its nonimmigrant visa process to improve efficiency of operation and reduce visa processing times.
Embassy Kampala should provide the Bureau of Consular Affairs with a crisis risk assessment.
Embassy Kampala should implement a written strategy for identifying and countering fraud in the consular section’s intercountry adoption casework.
Embassy Kampala, in coordination with the Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations, should conduct a feasibility study and correct Embassy Kampala’s warehousing deficiencies.
Embassy Kampala, in coordination with the Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations, should implement a space plan to move as many of the 47 staff positions at the general services office and warehouse facility as possible onto the embassy compound and leave only those desks at the facility for which an operational requirement exists.
Embassy Kampala should clear its remaining outstanding travel advances.
Embassy Kampala should adhere to Department of State regulations on representation and official residence expenses and vouchers.
Embassy Kampala should conduct an annual property use survey in accordance with Department of State regulations.
Embassy Kampala should conduct periodic spot checks of nonexpendable and expendable inventories and maintain records of spot checks, in accordance with regulations.
Embassy Kampala should dispose of obsolete inventory in accordance with Department of State regulations.
Embassy Kampala should conduct fire inspections and safety, health, and environmental management inspections in accordance with Department of State regulations.
Embassy Kampala should inspect fire extinguishers in all embassy offices and replace those that do not comply with Department of State regulations.
Embassy Kampala, in coordination with the Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations, should conduct an analysis to determine whether use of solar technologies would be cost effective.
Embassy Kampala should implement off-site backup tape storage for the classified network system.
Embassy Kampala, in coordination with the Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations, should install emergency power-off controls outside the computer server rooms of the information systems center and information programs center.
Embassy Kampala, in coordination with the Bureau of Administration, should implement procedures to maintain and retire official records in accordance with Department of State records management standards.
Embassy Kampala should conduct and document the required information systems security officer system reviews.
Embassy Kampala should purchase necessary equipment, including an antenna analyzer, to conduct antenna repair.
Embassy Kampala, in coordination with the Bureau of Information Resource Management and the Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations, should upgrade the entire local area network and telephone cable infrastructure at the general services office and warehouse facility in conformance with Department of State regulations.
Embassy Kampala should implement after-hours network access controls.
Embassy Kampala should include long-standing weaknesses at the general services office and warehouse facility in its 2014 chief of mission statement of assurance and address the short- and long-term steps taken to resolve those vulnerabilities.