Work Groups

Most of the Partnership’s deliverables are produced by work groups created by the Steering Committee to handle special projects. The Steering Committee has oversight over each work group. If you have any questions about these materials, please contact Helena Sims.

• Candidate Assessment Tool for Grants Management Positions: AGA has launched a new project to help identify accomplished grants managers.  The Partnership’s newest work group is charged with developing a “Candidate Assessment Tool” for use by managers at all levels of government in screening candidates for grants management jobs.
  
  
• Fraud Prevention ToolKit: The Fraud Prevention ToolKit, is on target for release on December 1, 2011. The state-of-the-art online resource will help officials at all levels of government to prevent, detect, and deter fraud. Information within the ToolKit will be divided by business processes, program areas, and fraud type fields.

• Cooperative Audit Resolution: This award-winning guide features a proven process to prevent and resolve audit and oversight findings. The Cooperative Audit Resolution and Oversight Initiative (CAROI) Guide explains how to identify the underlying cause of findings and to chart a course for program improvement. The CAROI Guide received the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE) 2011 award for Excellence in the Special Act category.

• Federal Cost Allocation/Improving Implementation of OMB Circular A-87: In February 2009, this work group produced eight products, including two questionnaires designed to ensure that the money goes to stable organizations with financial and administrative discipline. After completing its charge, the work group was disbanded in February 2009.
  
  
• Leveraging the Single Audit/Strategies for Reducing Erroneous Payments: This work group was charged with determining how all levels of government can work smarter to leverage audit resources, including the Single Audit Act Amendments of 1996 and the Improper Payments Act of 2002, while improving the usefulness of both acts to improve program integrity and reduce improper payments. After producing three products it was disbanded in 2009

 

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