As part of its annual workplan, the Office of Internal
Audit conducted an audit of WFP operations in Sierra Leone
that focused on a defined set of controls for small
country offices covering governance, beneficiary
management, cash-based transfers, supply chain, monitoring
and non-governmental organization management. The audit
also performed a limited review of fuel management as well
as gender and diversity. The work of WFP in Sierra Leone,
as defined through the six strategic outcomes of the
Country Strategic Plan for 2020–2024, aims to provide
life-saving assistance and nutrition to severely
food-insecure people, support school feeding programs and
smallholder farmers, strengthen capacity and improve the
humanitarian response through the delivery of common
services in-country. Based on the results of the audit,
the Office of Internal Audit reached an overall conclusion
of major improvement needed.