Improved Oversight Needed for State Department Grant to the International Republican Institute
Abstract
This report addresses the Department of State's (DoS) management of a $50 million grant to the International Republican Institute (IRI) for democracy-building activities in Iraq. This is the largest grant awarded to IRI by Grants Officers from the Bureau of Administration, Office of Acquisitions Management (AQM) on behalf of the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL). Because DRL does not have dedicated Grants Officers, it relies on AQM to award and amend its grants. However, DRL does provide a Grants Officer Representative who assists the Grants Officer in overseeing the grant. The grant is intended to support governance, political participation, and civil society programs in Iraq. In a prior audit, SIGIR found that grantee security costs were significant, and DRL did not have documentation on whether grants were meeting goals (SIGIR 10-012). In this follow-up audit, SIGIR's objectives are to examine for grant 209, the reasonableness, allocability, and allowability of IRI's claimed security costs, and the extent to which the grantee documented its success in achieving governance, political participation, and civil society goals and objectives.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 29, 2010
- Accession Number
- ADA545971
Entities
People
- Bill Bedwell
- Daniel Chen
- David R. Warren
- Joan Hlinka
- Robert Whiteley
- Whitney Miller
Organizations
- Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction