Excerpt: “From FY 2018 through FY 2023, the Department of State (Department) administered approximately $51 million in implementing vehicles,* international agreements, and sanctions to support anti-corruption efforts in Hungary, Moldova, Poland, and Ukraine. … OIG found weaknesses in the Department’s tracking, monitoring and evaluation, and strategic planning of anticorruption activities in Central and Eastern Europe. Despite the strategic priority placed on anti-corruption efforts, the Department had not taken steps to fully integrate its anticorruption efforts. Specifically, OIG determined that the Department did not have internal controls in place to systematically track and capture the entirety of anti-corruption programs and activities in Central and Eastern Europe and provide reliable and timely financial information on them. OIG also found that Department bureaus and overseas posts did not consistently monitor and evaluate anti-corruption implementing vehicles. In addition, OIG found that key bureaus’ guidance and resources for project design did not conform with the Department’s established best practices.”
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