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Improved oversight needed for State Department grants to the International Republican Institute
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.
- "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."@en
- "Improved oversight needed for State Department grants to the International Republican Institute"@en