SIGAR

SIGAR OVERSIGHT ACTIVITIES
COMPLETED SPECIAL PROJECT
PRODUCTS
• Special Project Inquiry Letter 16-50-SP:
DOD Efforts to Eliminate Ghost
Personnel from ANDSF Systems
• Special Project Inquiry Letter 16-51-SP:
Anti-Corruption Justice Center
• Special Project Inquiry Letter 16-52-SP:
Anti-Corruption Justice Center
• Special Project Inquiry Letter 16-55-SP:
Afghanistan Independent Joint Anti-
Corruption Monitoring and Evaluation
Committee (MEC) Ministry of
Public Health
• Special Project Inquiry Letter 16-57-SP:
USAID Implementing the MEC Report
Recommendations on the Afghan
Ministry of Public Health
• Special Project Review 16-60-SP:
Afghanistan’s High Office of Oversight:
Personal Asset Declarations of High-
Ranking Government Officials are Not
Consistently Registered and Verified
• Special Project Fact Sheet 17-04-SP:
Department of Agriculture
Funds Obligated for Afghanistan
Reconstruction
COMPLETED LESSONS LEARNED
PRODUCTS
• Lessons Learned 16-58-LL: Corruption
in Conflict: Lessons from the U.S.
Experience in Afghanistan
• Lessons Learned 16-59-LL: Lessons
from the Coalition: International
Experiences from the Afghanistan
Reconstruction
ALERT LETTERS
• Alert Letter 17-1: Response to
Inquiry Letter on USAID’s Cooperative
Agreement
• Alert Letter 17-2: Fire Doors at the MOI
Compound in Kabul
During the reporting period, SIGAR criminal investigations resulted in
one indictment, two convictions, and two sentencings. SIGAR recouped
more than $800,000 in cost savings and recoveries for the U.S. government.
SIGAR initiated 13 new investigations and closed 28, bringing the total number
of ongoing investigations to 254.
This quarter, SIGAR’s suspension and debarment program referred
46 individuals and one company for suspension or debarment based on
evidence developed as part of investigations conducted by SIGAR in
Afghanistan and the United States. These referrals bring the total number
of individuals and companies referred by SIGAR since 2008 to 803, encompassing
447 individuals and 356 companies to date.
AUDITS
SIGAR conducts performance audits, inspections, and financial audits
of programs and projects connected to the reconstruction effort in
Afghanistan. Since its last report to Congress, SIGAR has issued two alert
letters, two performance audits, six financial audits, and four inspection
reports. This quarter, SIGAR has 11 ongoing performance audits.
Alert Letters
U.S. military and civilian officials have asked SIGAR to provide them with
real-time information to prevent waste and increase the effectiveness of
U.S. reconstruction programs. One of SIGAR’s main goals is to provide
implementing agencies and Congress with actionable information while
there is still time to make a difference. To achieve that goal, SIGAR sends
audit alert letters to highlight concerns.
During this reporting period, SIGAR sent two alert letters: one expressed
concern over the continuation and significant expansion of a cooperative
agreement between USAID/Afghanistan and Democracy International; the
other regarded noncertified fire doors installed in 25 buildings on the newly
constructed MOI compound in Kabul.
Alert Letter 17-1: Response to Inquiry Letter on
USAID’s Cooperative Agreement with Democracy
International for AERCA
On October 3, SIGAR wrote to USAID Administrator Gayle E. Smith
and USAID Mission Director for Afghanistan Herbert B. Smith to
request information about a cooperative agreement between USAID/
Afghanistan and Democracy International, an organization that advises
U.S. government agencies on implementing democracy and governance
projects internationally.
The agreement was originally intended to support the International
Election Observation Mission for the 2009 Presidential and Provincial
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SPECIAL INSPECTOR GENERAL I AFGHANISTAN RECONSTRUCTION