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Internal Audit of WFP’s Ebola Virus Disease Response - November 2015

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.