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OIG recommends that the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs (NEA) develop and implement a process to verify that grants officers and the grants officers representatives develop and implement monitoring plans that comply with the Federal Assistance Policy Directive, specifically subchapters 2.03-A, Risk Management; 3.01-A, Monitoring Plan; and 3.01-B, Financial Reporting. Specifically, the monitoring plans should enable NEA to obtain reasonable assurance that award recipients have adequate financial management controls in place.
OIG recommends that the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs conduct site visits, as recommended by the Federal Assistance Policy Directive and the Federal Assistance Procedures Desk Guide, to monitor award recipients' financial activities, including reviewing the recipients' financial policies and procedures, financial management controls, and supporting documentation for a selection of expenditures, and establish a corrective action plan, if necessary.
OIG recommends that the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs (a) determine whether questioned costs of $1.5 million identified in this report are allowable and supported and (b) recover any costs determined to be unallowable or unsupported.
OIG recommends that the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs review the 223 MEPI awards not selected for this audit to determine whether unallowable and unsupported costs exist in those awards and to recover any costs deemed unallowable or unsupported.