Global Ties US

How it makes and monitors grants (Schedule I, Part IV)

Global ties u.s. (gtus) receives federal funds through the bureau of education and cultural affairs (eca) of the united states department of state (state). funding mechanism: gtus has a cooperative agreement with state, the purpose of which is to: support the gtus administrative costs and provide funding for the eca community partnership grants through which local sponsors are awarded sub-awards to assist them in programming for the international visitor leadership program. the gtus members, also known as community based members (cbms), arrange professional and cultural exchange programs for eca-sponsored international visitors each year. a large portion of the funds gtus receives is required to be sub-awarded to the cbms. as a federal grantee, gtus is responsible for monitoring sub-awardees and ensuring that fiscal, compliance, and programmatic responsibilities are fulfilled. this includes monitoring sub-awardees reporting, recordkeeping, and internal operations and controls. gtus is required to perform sub-awardee monitoring to ensure that funds are used for their intended purposes and that there are no audit findings that may adversely affect the use of the grant funds. sub-awardee monitoring efforts are carried out in collaboration with the office of international visitors of eca. while a number of gtus's sub-awardee monitoring efforts are common to each of the federally-funded programs, there are also a series of monitoring efforts dedicated to management of the cbms, wh