Regional Inspector General

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The Regional Inspector General (RIG) for Pretoria conducts performance audits of USAID missions and activities implemented by USAID Missions located in Angola, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, as well as two regional offices in Kenya and South Africa. RIG/Pretoria also has audit responsibilities in limited presence countries within its region: Botswana, Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, Lesotho, Mauritius, Seychelles, Somalia, and Swaziland.

RIG/Pretoria also exercises monitoring and oversight responsibilities over a large financial audit program which includes recipient-contracted and agency-contracted audits conducted by independent public accountants and supreme audit institutions. These audit reports are reviewed by RIG/Pretoria and issued under its transmittal letters. The office performs quality control reviews on a sample of the recipient-contracted and agency-contracted audit reports and auditor's working papers, to determine compliance with applicable professional auditing standards as well as USAID's own requirements on financial audits.

To find out more about the Inspector General’s office, visit their website: http://oig.usaid.gov/

Ongoing Solicitations:

Request for a Technical Proposal for Qualification of Public Accounting Firms to perform audits of USAID funds

• Word Version (170 kb)
• PDF Version (214 kb)

Please Note: Completed questionnaires must be submitted to Theresa Venter at tventer@usaid.gov or faxed to 012-346-2221. 

RIG Reference Materials and Websites:

• Recipient Contracted Audit Process (October 2011) (pdf, 136 KB)
• Agency Contracted Audit Process (October 2011) (pdf, 111 KB)
• USAID Regional Inspector General/Pretoria's List of Approved 'Regular' Status Audit Firms (January 2013) (pdf, 41kb)
  (Note: Regular status indicates firms that have consistently demonstrated expertise in the performance of audits of USAID agreements)
• USAID Regional Inspector General/Pretoria: List of Approved 'Conditional' Audit Firms (January 2013) (pdf, 62kb) 
  (Note: RIG/Pretoria must approve the recipient’s choice of a “Conditional” firm before the agreement with the firm is signed. If the USAID Mission or RIG/Pretoria disapproves the recipient’s choice of firm, the recipient must select another firm.)

Standard Statement of Work for Financial Audits of Non-U.S. Organizations Contracted by USAID (February 2012)

• Word Version (114 kb)
• PDF Version (234 kb)

Standard Statement of Work for Financial Audits of Non-U.S. Organizations Contracted by the Recipient (February 2012)

• Word Version (116 kb)
• PDF Version (236 kb)
• 22 CFR 226 "Administration of Assistance Awards to U.S. Non-Governmental Organizations" (website) (Note: some of this applies to non-U.S. NGOs as well)
• OMB Circular A-122 "Cost Principles for Non-Profit Organizations" (website)
• U.S. Government Auditing Standards (website)
• Guidelines for Financial Audits Contracted by Foreign Recipients (February 2009) (pdf, 549 kb)
• The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (website)
• Indirect Cost Rate Determination Guide (website)
• Mandatory Standard Provisions for Non-U.S. Non-Governmental Recipients (June 2012) (pdf, 717kb)
• Principles for Country Contracts: these principles should be used for the audit of host country contracts (July 2001) (pdf, 390 kb)