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[The report containing the information Patrick Webb refers to]
[Opening letter to Congress]
Quarterly Report October 30, 2023
SPECIAL INSPECTOR GENERAL FOR AFGHANISTAN RECONSTRUCTION
To Congress, the Secretaries of State and Defense, and the American people, I am pleased to submit SIGAR’s 61st quarterly report on the status of U.S. assistance to Afghanistan.
1) The section called “Status of Funds” has been moved entirely to Appendix A and focuses now on U.S. assistance since the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, rather than cumulative U.S. reconstruction assistance to Afghanistan since 2002.
2) SIGAR also issued a performance audit that found that USAID improved its oversight of emergency food assistance programs in Afghanistan by engaging a third-party monitor. However, USAID did not increase the number of sites visited by the third-party monitor to reflect increases in funding or the expansion of the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) ground operations in Afghanistan, or inform the third-party monitor of the changes, thereby limiting USAID’s oversight of WFP activities.
3) Additionally, SIGAR completed five financial audits of U.S.-funded projects in Afghanistan that identified $530,628 in questioned costs as a result of internal-control deficiencies and noncompliance issues by U.S. government contractors. During the reporting period, SIGAR’s criminal investigations resulted in $50,000 in U.S. government cost savings.
https://www.sigar.mil/pdf/quarterlyreports/2023-10-30qr.pdf