Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, April 30, 2005, Report to Congress

Abstract

The Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) moved into its second year of operation with the release of four new audit reports, an expanded professional staff, and an innovative audit plan that will provide continued oversight of Iraq reconstruction. This Quarterly Report includes a summary of SIGIR operations, as well as a review of the activities of other agencies with oversight responsibility for Iraq reconstruction. The U.S. Mission Iraq is responsible for leading reconstruction efforts and setting reconstruction priorities, but at least 12 U.S. government agencies have or had direct responsibility for some portion of the $18.4 billion Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund (IRRF)1. The decentralization of responsibility and management complicates efforts to evaluate how U.S. appropriated funds are being used in Iraq. The SIGIR has the following concerns about: whether U.S. government organizations can generate a reliable, consolidated view of all activities funded by the IRRF, whether U.S. government organizations can implement reliable estimates of the costs to complete current reconstruction projects, whether systems that are used to track reconstruction projects can produce reports that tie these projects to the contracts that fund them, whether contract data from IRRF-funded contracts is accessible, reliable, and complete, whether contract of officials are able to verify that work is completed satisfactorily before issuing payment To support a more complete look at the state of Iraq reconstruction, the SIGIR has an initiative to acquire data that details what has been and will be built in Iraq, how much has been and will be spent, and the benefit that Iraqis have received from U.S. funding. The SIGIR Iraq Reconstruction Information System (SIRIS) is at the heart of this new initiative.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 30, 2005
Accession Number
ADA489218

Entities

People

  • Stuart W. Bowen Jr.

Organizations

  • Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction

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  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems

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  • Air Force
  • Business Administration
  • Congress
  • Employment
  • Governments
  • International Organizations
  • Law
  • Logistics
  • Management Personnel
  • Money
  • National Governments
  • National Politics
  • National Security
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management
  • Recreation
  • United States

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  • Defense Financial Management and Audit.
  • Military and Counterinsurgency Studies.