The list below includes projects relating to Israel initiated by the Office of Audits and Office of Inspections. This list will be updated as projects are announced. For a comprehensive list of State OIG's ongoing projects, please visit Ongoing Work. Project announcements are posted under News.
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the U.S. Department of State (Department) initiated an Evaluation of Department of State Administration of Foreign Assistance Programs Transferred From the U.S. Agency for International Development. OIG’s objective for this evaluation is to describe the Department’s administration of USAID foreign assistance programs and associated awards recently transferred to the Department. The Department is responsible for administering select USAID functions, including continuing foreign assistance programs and associated awards transferred to the Department in July 2025. According to recently released figures, 951 awards with a total estimated cost of nearly $75 billion were to be distributed among 14 Department bureaus, some of which have not previously implemented foreign assistance programs, and others which were created during the Department’s recent reorganization.
Evaluation of the Department's Regional Bureaus' Administration of Foreign Assistance Programs
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the U.S. Department of State (Department) initiated an Evaluation of the Department's Regional Bureaus' Administration of Foreign Assistance Programs. OIG’s objectives for this evaluation are to are to determine how the regional bureaus are administering foreign assistance programs, and assess the implementation of foreign assistance budgeting, planning, program design, award design, and monitoring/evaluation. The Department of State is reorganizing and changing its approach for administering foreign assistance programs. Regional bureaus have new or expanded responsibilities prompting the establishment of assistance coordination offices in Washington and regional assistance hubs at several posts in many regions. Initial observations indicate that regional bureaus are implementing different approaches to administer assistance, a factor that could affect the effectiveness of foreign assistance program administration.
Audit of the Department of State’s Efforts to Provide Food Assistance to Gaza
The Department is responsible for almost $600 million in awards to deliver emergency food security, unconditional food assistance, and livelihoods support in Gaza, which is reported to be facing famine conditions. The objectives of this audit are to determine whether the Department has developed and implemented an effective structure to provide food assistance to civilians in Gaza and whether food assistance awards are achieving intended results.
PRM relies on public international organizations to provide refugee assistance in the Near East. A United Nations investigative body concluded that employees of one PRM recipient in the region may have been involved in the October 7, 2023, attacks on Israel that resulted in thousands of deaths, kidnappings, and injuries of Americans, Israelis, and Palestinians. OIG is conducting this audit to determine whether PRM implemented appropriate measures to mitigate risks that PRM-funded public international organization activities could benefit terrorist groups, their members, or their supporters in the Near East following the October 7, 2023, attack on Israel.