As part of its annual work plan for 2015, the Office of
Internal Audit conducted an audit of World Food
Programme’s (WFP) Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) Response,
focusing on the period 13 August 2014 to 30 June 2015. The
audit team visited Sierra Leone during the audit planning
phase,from 22 to 26 June 2015, and then conducted the
in-country fieldwork from 6 to 31 July 2015; the
in-country fieldwork included on-site visits to various
locations in the Ebola-affected countries (EACs) of
Liberia and Guinea, on-site visits to the West Africa
Regional Bureau in Senegal, an onsite visit to the FITTEST
base in Dubai and a review of related corporate processes
that impact across WFP. The audit was conducted in
accordance with the International Standards for the
Professional Practice of Internal Auditing.