If you need an independent assessment of whether your existing policies and procedures are compliant with pertinent USG rules and regulations entailed in implementing international development awards for different clients such as USAID, State, DfID, and others, Gems of Wisdom Consulting can deliver it.
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- Compliance:
- Sexual Exploitation and Abuse:
If you want support with independent and objective employee or vendor misconduct investigations involving sexual harassment, counter-trafficking in persons, sex-for-hire, or other sexual exploitation and abuse matters, Gems of Wisdom has over 20 years of experience on-hand to help you.
- Risk Assessments:
If you seek independent expert opinion and advice about risk tolerance strategies in selected operational areas, Gems of Wisdom Consulting can provide a body of research and pertinent data to help inform your decisions.
- Policy and Procedures Manuals:
If you havenāt yet codified your policies and procedures manuals for managing international awards and/or if you seek to enhance them or put them on line, choosing Gems of Wisdom Consulting to assist you in this task is a very wise and economical choice.
- SOPs:
If you seek to optimize your Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to ensure that your organizationās internal divisions, departments, and operating systems in the Home and Field offices communicate effectively with each other, our Gems of Wisdom Consulting experts can provide insights and recommendations to help you achieve your goals.Ā
- Field Office Reviews:
If you need an independent assessment of how efficiently your field offices and field-based project management are operating, our Gems of Wisdom Consulting experts are ready to deploy to the field on short notice to take up the assignment.
- Training:
If you require training specifically tailored to meet the needs of your staff in the Home Office or in the field in key operational areas such as procurement, HR, grants management, fraud awareness, ethics, anti-trafficking, and others, our Gems of Wisdom Consulting experts are ready to work with you to develop and deliver low cost innovative and effective solutions.Ā
- Export License Compliance:
If you need a Commerce Department/BIS license export license compliance system or an independent vulnerability assessment of your current license compliance practices, Gems of Wisdom Consulting experts can assist you.
- Allegations Tracking & Reporting Systems:
If you want advice on how to build an allegations tracking and reporting system to report fraud, waste, abuse, anti-trafficking, and child protection compliance, Gems of Wisdom Consulting experts are prepared to provide assistance.
- Accounting Policies:
If you want a US-based desk audit of your existing accounting policies and procedures manuals for undertaking USG international awardsāor if you need to create them, Gems of Wisdom Consultingās accounting and finance experts can help.
- Host Country Regulations:
If you deep dive analyses and current information about selected host country regulations that apply to implementing international awards in selected countries, Gems of Wisdom Consultingās network of in-country legal experts can inform you.
- OIG Findings Benchmarking:
If you want an analysis of key āsignificant findingsā from USAIDās OIG Semi Annual Reports to Congress (SARC) to identify areas of vulnerability, drawing on the research and analyses undertaken by Gems of Wisdom Consulting experts will fully inform you and keep you up to date on āhot topics.ā
- Best Practice Benchmarking:
If you want perspectives on ābest practiceā in various areas pursuant to project start-up, implementation, and close-out, Gems of Wisdom Consulting experts has conducted in-depth research that is available to you to compliment your own.
- Fraud Investigation Capacity Building:
If you want to build fraud investigation capabilities, in choosing Gems of Wisdom Consulting you have come to the right place.
- Internal Investigation Support:
If you want support with deep-dive internal and employee integrity investigations financial fraud, bribery, public corruption, and FCPA, Gems of Wisdom Consulting experts have over 30 years on hands on experience in these areas to share.Ā
- Field Office Readiness Support:
If you want field office readiness support for unannounced OIG āPop-Insā you have come to the right place.
- Tune Ups:
If you require assistance in any combination of the areas mentioned above or in others.
If you donāt see the precise issue you are dealing with in the list above talk to us anyway, chances are that one of our experts has dealt with it before. Rest assured that we will always give you an honest assessment of our capabilities and of the task at hand to determine whether and how Gems of Wisdom Consulting can best serve you.
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