Audit Reports

As part of its annual workplan, the Office of Internal Audit conducted an audit of WFP’s staffing in emergencies. The audit focused on a review of WFP’s emergency staffing preparation, staffing scale-up and risks to staff wellness in emergencies. The team surveyed 28 country offices under an emergency designation and performed detailed reviews of emergencies in the following countries: Afghanistan, Haiti, Somalia, Sri Lanka and Ukraine. WFP seeks to continuously strengthen its response to saving lives by effectively and efficiently supporting its emergency operations with the right skill sets and people. WFP is committed to providing its employees with an enabling and supportive workplace and ensuring that an effective health and welfare risk management process is in place. WFP faced unprecedented humanitarian needs worldwide in 2022, assisting 158 million people. In the period from January 2016 to December 2022, WFP responded to 128 emergencies, including in Afghanistan, South Sudan, Syria and Yemen. Currently, more than half of WFP’s 23,000 global employees serve in emergency duty stations assisting beneficiaries. Based on the audit results, the Office of Internal Audit reached an overall conclusion of major improvement needed.

As part of its annual workplan, the Office of Internal Audit audited WFP cooperating partners’ digital and data processing risks. The audit focused on the adequacy, efficiency and effectiveness of WFP governance, risk management and internal controls to mitigate cooperating partners’ digital and data processing risks. WFP routinely relies on its cooperating partners’ processes and technology to process and safeguard beneficiaries’ personally identifiable information. WFP’s cooperating partners process a large amount of personally identifiable information, including current and prospective beneficiaries' personal data. Protecting this information is a fundamental duty of care to those WFP serves. Therefore, it is incumbent on WFP to ensure beneficiaries' privacy rights and personal data are safeguarded and processed by its cooperating partners in a manner that does not compromise its confidentiality, availability and integrity. Breaches in privacy could have profound consequences for individual beneficiaries or beneficiary communities and impact WFP's mission objectives. Based on the results of the audit, the Office of Internal Audit has come to an overall conclusion of major improvement needed.

As part of its annual workplan, the Office of Internal Audit conducted an audit of WFP operations in Chad which focused on beneficiary management, cash-based transfers, supply chain and monitoring; complemented by a tailored review of the management of non-governmental organizations, governance and risk management. With six strategic outcomes, the 2019‒2023 Country Strategic Plan positions WFP in Chad as a key humanitarian contributor in achieving food and nutrition security, through key shifts that include a commitment to support the country in its efforts to achieve zero hunger by 2030, with a focus on efforts at the humanitarian-development-peace nexus to deliver sustainable hunger solutions. Over the audit period, WFP’s total operational costs amounted to approximatively USD 151.7 million, and the country office reached more than 2.9 million beneficiaries. The audit focused on strategic outcome 1: Crisis-affected people in targeted areas are able to meet their basic food and nutrition needs during and in the aftermath of crises; and strategic outcome 2: Food-insecure people in targeted areas have access to adequate and nutritious food all year. Based on the results of the audit, the Office of Internal Audit reached an overall conclusion of major improvement needed.