USAID
Office of Inspector General Report to congress (==this is every 6 months they report, so the fraud is only for a 6 month period)
MESSAGE FROM THE ACTING
INSPECTOR GENERAL
Thomas J. Ullom
Acting Inspector General
I am pleased to present the USAID Office of Inspector General’s Semiannual Report to Congress for the first half of fiscal year
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Our mission is to strengthen and safeguard U.S. foreign assistance, and this report summarizes the results and impact of our oversight of USAID, the Millennium Challenge Corporation
(MCC), the U.S. African Development Foundation (USADF), and the Inter-American Foundation (IAF) from October 1, 2021, through March 31, 2022.
We work across the agencies we oversee and with our oversight partners worldwide to promote effectiveness, efficiency, and
accountability, as well as deter fraud, waste, and abuse. Our 208 performance audits, evaluations, and financial audits this period covered nearly $19.1 billion in funds, generated 162 recommendations for corrective action, and identified $56.1 million in questioned costs. Our investigative work led to $4.1 million in savings and recoveries this period and
6 debarments of entities from receiving Federal awards. We made 11 referrals for prosecution and referred 9 entities for
suspension and debarment consideration. Our staff also presented 80 fraud awareness briefings to 6,325 individuals representing aid organizations, Federal agencies, and international organizations
in 25 countries.
Our work also led to improvements in how agencies plan, award, deliver, and sustain aid and development programs and held individuals and organizations accountable for fraud, abuse, and other misconduct. We collaborated with oversight partners worldwide, sharing best practices and
promoting transparency and integrity in the aid sector. We worked with agency officials, bilateral donors, and multilateral oversight partners to better detect and deter sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA), identify and mitigate risk in humanitarian responses, and improve major U.S. global health initiatives and responses to crisis and conflict. Our results this period fall across five
oversight priorities:
• Maintaining oversight of global health programming during a pandemic. We made
recommendations to help USAID increase the use of local partners in the U.S. President’s
Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) while considering the effects of the COVID-19
pandemic. An OIG investigation led USAID to debar two development workers for the theft
of health equipment in Jordan. Our COVID-19 informational brief and related reporting on
overseas contingency operations (OCOs) promoted transparency in agencies’ pandemic
responses. We also continued our participation in multiple interagency task forces and
working groups to further U.S. government oversight of pandemic-related funds, including
joining the Department of Justice’s COVID-19 Fraud Enforcement Task For
https://oig.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/2022-06/USAID%20OIG%20Semiannual%20Report%20to%20Congress%20October%201%202021-March%203%202022.pdf