Subrecipient Monitoring

Description

Subrecipient Monitoring: Safeguarding Funds, Maximizing Impact is Book Four in The Grant Guide Series.

Effective subrecipient monitoring begins before a subaward is issued and continues through follow-up and resolution. Clear expectations, documented decisions, and oversight tailored to risk help pass-through entities safeguard funds and support program performance.

Subrecipient Monitoring guides readers through building and carrying out a monitoring program for federal awards. Written for pass-through entities, grant managers, fiscal staff, and compliance professionals, this guide connects oversight responsibilities with practical procedures for assessing risk, conducting reviews, and addressing findings.

What’s Inside:

Oversight Foundations: Pass-through responsibilities, subrecipient-versus-contractor determinations, and subaward agreements.

Risk Assessment and Planning: Risk factors, scoring models, monitoring tiers, specific conditions, and resource allocation.

Monitoring in Practice: Desk reviews, onsite visits, continuous monitoring, audit review, sampling, and supporting documentation.

Results and Resolution: Monitoring reports, findings, corrective action plans, follow-up, and enforcement.

Stronger Monitoring Systems: Recordkeeping, staff coordination, technology, subrecipient training, and continuous improvement.

Whether you oversee a few subrecipients or a large portfolio, this fourth volume provides a practical foundation for consistent, documented oversight. Case studies, a monitoring standards reference guide, and a sample annual monitoring plan help readers put the concepts into practice and strengthen accountability across their subawards.

Part of the DECODED® collection of practical compliance resources.