Blog 39 USMC 20150725 13-005 Audit Report : Commander's Emergency Response Program (CERP) Is Responsible For Circumventi
"Commander's Emergency Response Program (CERP) Is Directly Responsible For Circumventing The Small Business Act And Corruption." The Office of Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) provided an audit report on the use and control of Commander's Emergency Response Program (CERP)'s funds in Iraq. Early reports on CERP found that funds were properly used for their intended purposes: small-scale urgently needed projects that rapidly met local needs. In later years, however, SIGIR discovered that large projects, emphasizing development goals rather than counterinsurgency objectives, crept into the mix. A majority of CERP funds are spent on projects that, while important,far-exceed the intended scale and scope of urgent projects CERP was intended to support. Over the last five years, CERP has grown from an incisive [counterinsurgency] tool to an alternative U.S. development program with few limits and little management.
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