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Our mission to understand communities’ experiences with pandemic funding and programs brought us to Jicarilla Apache Nation Reservation located in New Mexico. Read how this community used pandemic relief funding to respond to and mitigate the effects of COVID-19.

Our mission to understand communities’ experiences with pandemic funding and programs brought us to White Earth Nation Reservation in Minnesota. Read how this community incorporated cultural traditions into its pandemic response and used pandemic relief funding to respond to and mitigate the effects of COVID.

Our mission to understand communities’ experiences with pandemic funding and programs brought us to Marion County, GA. Read how this county used pandemic relief funding to respond to and mitigate the effects of COVID-19. Future reports will provide valuable lessons learned from other locations to improve federal emergency response programs.

Our mission to understand communities’ experiences with pandemic funding and programs brought us next to Sheridan County, Nebraska. Read how this county used pandemic relief funding to respond to and mitigate the effects of COVID-19. Future reports will provide valuable lessons learned from other locations to improve federal emergency response programs.

Our mission to understand communities’ experiences with pandemic funding and programs brought us next to Coeur d’Alene, ID. Read how this city used pandemic relief funding to respond to and mitigate the effects of COVID-19. Future reports will provide valuable lessons learned from other locations to improve federal emergency response programs.

Our mission to understand communities’ experiences with pandemic funding and programs brought us to Springfield, MA. Read how this city used pandemic relief funding to respond to and mitigate the effects of COVID-19. Future reports will provide valuable lessons learned from other locations to improve federal emergency response programs.

We’re on a mission to understand how communities responded to the pandemic and how the federal government can improve emergency response programs. Read about six communities’ experiences with pandemic funding and programs. Future reports will take a closer look at each location's experience.

Learn from the experts in this recap of insights and best practices shared during our Agile Oversight Forum. Combined with our Agile Products Toolkit, you'll have all the resources you need to start incorporating agile strategies into your own work.

Federal contract and grant awards increased rapidly during the pandemic. We surveyed 29 federal agencies to learn what hurdles both workforces faced and the creative strategies they used to combat those challenges. Read the full report providing insights to help with future national emergencies.

The COVID-19 pandemic put an unprecedented strain on our health care system. We surveyed more than 300 facilities across four federal health care programs and learned most had a hard time hiring and maintaining the staff they needed. Read the full report to find out why.

Following your money is our mission, but it can be hard. Our report has new insights into challenges we had following pandemic relief funds in six communities. Read the report.

In this report, we share insights from six oversight partners on the surge of telehealth use in federal healthcare programs, and how the watchdog community can safeguard these programs against fraud, waste, and abuse.

This commissioned study highlights best practices for minimizing fraud risk and lessons learned from the State Workforce Agencies that administered pandemic unemployment insurance programs.

Our objective was to review pandemic-related federal contracts and identify first-time contractors and contracts awarded without competitive bidding. We found that first-time federal contractors received $4.4 billion worth of pandemic contracts in Fiscal Year 2020 and that $128 million was deobligated from contracts with first-time federal contractors during the same period.

Prisons and detention facilities are high-risk environments for COVID-19 outbreaks and deaths. How did federal agencies handle the pandemic in those environments? Read the report to find out more.

This report identifies four new challenges faced by federal agencies as they manage the distribution of $3.5 trillion in pandemic-related funding. It also outlines the work being done by the Offices of Inspectors General to detect and prevent fraud and misuse of the funds.

This report examines COVID-19 testing efforts for six federal health care programs during the first seven months following the declaration of a public health emergency in the United States. Published by the PRAC Health Care Subgroup, the report takes a detailed look at testing data in each of the programs that, when combined, provide benefits or care for about 64 million individuals. Get the details here.

This toolkit identifies and defines four primary situations where your office may want to consider using an agile product. Consider these guidelines, best practices and lessons learned while conducting, completing, and issuing reports or other work products.

Insight into the top management challenges facing federal agencies that received pandemic related funding as identified by Offices of Inspector General.