As part of its annual work plan, the Office of Internal
Audit conducted an audit of WFP's operations in
Zimbabwe that focused on beneficiary management,
cash-based transfers, monitoring, supply chain and
finance, covering the period from 1 October 2020 to 30
September 2021. As defined in the Country Strategic Plan
2017–2021, WFP in Zimbabwe aims to maintain a strong
humanitarian assistance capacity while supporting
longer-term national social protection and
resilience-building efforts to achieve zero hunger. The
audit focused on WFP's programme implementation under
Strategic Outcome 1 of the Country Strategic Plan
"Crisis-affected people in targeted areas, including
refugees and internally displaced persons, are able to
meet their basic food and nutrition needs during and in
the immediate aftermath of crises". Based on the
results of the audit, the Office of Internal Audit has
come to an overall conclusion of partially satisfactory /
some improvement needed.