From the report to congress
Do the Afghans want it and need it?
Best practice in offering assistance should include determining that the intended recipient actually wants and needs the project. SIGAR has not always found that to be the case in Afghanistan. Two recent SIGAR inspec- tion reports (Inspections 13-4 and 13-5), for example, found that most of the buildings at five Afghan Border Police facilities costing a total of $26 million in Kunduz and Nangarhar Provinces were either unoccupied or being used for unintended purposes, including one that was being used as a chicken coop.6 It is difficult to consider a project as wanted and needed if its intended recipients are not using it or are using it for an unplanned purpose
$230 Million in Missing Repair Parts
In September 2012, the Commander of ISAF’s Advisory and Assistance Team—a military assessment team—reported that CSTC-A could not account for 474 out of 500 shipping containers with $230 million worth of repair parts for ANSF equipment. CSTC-A purchased the repair parts for the Afghan forces between 2007 and 2011. The team that discovered the parts were missing said this may have triggered a requirement that CSTC-A reor- der additional repair parts at a cost of nearly $137 million
Investigation Determines CSTC-A Cannot Account for
$201 Million in Fuel Purchases
In this reporting period, SIGAR investigators determined that because of CSTC-A’s failure to comply with record-retention polices, the U.S. govern- ment still cannot account for $201 million in fuel purchased to support the Afghan National Army (ANA).
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