Report Contents
Report Terms
Report Recommendations
Voice of America should conduct a 360 review of the senior management staff of the Afghanistan Service and take corrective actions on the basis of the outcome of the review.
The Broadcasting Board of Governors should implement a comprehensive harmonization strategy for U.S. international broadcasting to Afghanistan that includes all Broadcasting Board of Governors entities operating in or broadcasting to Afghanistan.
Voice of America, in coordination with the International Broadcasting Bureau, Office of Human Resources, should implement internal procedures for rating and reviewing officers in the Afghanistan Service to comply with International Broadcasting Bureau performance evaluation regulations.
The International Broadcasting Bureau Office of the Chief Financial Officer, in coordination with Voice of America, should review periodically the Afghanistan Service employees’ government travel card usage and determine appropriate disciplinary action for travel card misuse.
The International Broadcasting Bureau Office of the Chief Financial Officer should update its travel card policy to include training requirements and implement procedures for compliance of these requirements.
The International Broadcasting Bureau Office of Contracts, in coordination with the Voice of America Afghanistan Service, should require contracting officer’s representatives and alternate contracting officer’s representatives to comply with all Federal contract designation and administration requirements.
The Broadcasting Board of Governors should require Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to transition to electronic funds transfers for the Kabul news bureau’s salaries and expenses.
The Broadcasting Board of Governors Office of the Chief Financial Officer should review the budget authority for unliquidated obligations for FYs 2010–14, totaling $662,451 and $432,422, respectively, and implement a review system to deobligate unliquidated obligations periodically.
Voice of America, in coordination with the International Broadcasting Bureau Property Management Office, should conduct comprehensive annual inventories, update inventory records, and implement property internal controls procedures in accordance with International Broadcasting Bureau regulations.
The International Broadcasting Bureau Office of Technology, Services, and Innovation and Office of the Chief Financial Officer should update the Property Inventory Processing System to include accountable property sent to Afghanistan and correct property and financial records.
The Broadcasting Board of Governors should require Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to implement cash and check reconciliation procedures in Radio Free Afghanistan’s news bureau.
The Broadcasting Board of Governors should require Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to implement accountability procedures for loaned equipment in the Radio Free Afghanistan news bureau.
Sensitive Information Redacted