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NACHC CNCS Missed Opportunities

Date Issued
Report Number
OIG-MA-16-03AmeriCorpsOIG
Report Type
Other
Joint Report
Yes
Participating OIG
AmeriCorps Office of Inspector General
Agency Wide
Yes
Questioned Costs
$0
Funds for Better Use
$0

Open Recommendations

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Assess during the grant application process whether an applicant is at particular risk for one or more specific prohibited activities. If so, CNCS should require that the grantee develop customized ways to address compliance with that prohibition, including detection controls. The Corporation should incorporate the resulting information into the monitoring plan and target CNCS monitoring activities accordingly and assess the effectiveness of the measures taken by the grantee.

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Identify all grantees and subgrantees whose service activities involve providing healthcare to women and girls of childbearing age, as well as those with service activities directed at education or mentoring of girls and young women middle school-aged and above and determine whether they have engaged in abortion-related prohibited activities within a pre-determined period.

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Conduct similar risk assessments, identification of at-risk grantees, communications and targeted monitoring for other prohibited activities.

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Identify any other factors that may increase the risk of individual prohibited activities and use that information for targeted education, training and monitoring as appropriate.

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Enhance the capacity of eGrants to store and search critical emails; institutionalize policies and procedures to allow POs and GOs to capture key emails in eGrants; and develop criteria for identifying emails to be captured.

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CNCS’s to-be-developed Enterprise Risk Management strategy and planning include a component for specific prohibited activities, commensurate with magnitude of the risk, including the reputational and political risk to CNCS.

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Accelerate the development of a more focused, targeted and risk-based model and approach to all grant monitoring including continuous assessment of the effectiveness of CNCS'S grant risk assessments and monitoring.

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Without waiting for the development of a comprehensive risk-based monitoring strategy, develop and implement monitoring strategies for specific prohibited activities that can be conducted frequently, do not depend on site visits and provide a meaningful opportunity for prompt detection of violations or red flags, including searches of social media sites and surveys of members in accessible language, using the MyAmeriCorps Portal.