1975 1975 headquarters washington dc united states key people susanna mudge president and ceo services development project design management and implementation number of employees 3 500 website www.chemonics.com chemonics international is a private international development company that works for bilateral and multilateral donors and the private sector to manage projects in developing countries . the organization bids primarily on contracts from the u.s. agency for international development usaid and manages projects that cover a variety of technical sectors . in addition to its headquarters in washington d.c. the company also has project offices in different countries . history edit chemonics was founded in 1975 by thurston f. tony teele . 1 criticism edit chemonics has been subject to criticism from the us agency for international development usaid office of inspector general oig for their work on several multi million dollar aid contracts . in 2012 chemonics came under scrutiny by the oig for their work in haiti after the 2010 earthquake . chemonics was the largest single recipient of post earthquake funds from usaid receiving over 196 million in contracts 2 many of which were no bid . 3 audits specifically cited chemonics lack of a comprehensive monitoring and evaluation plan and that some of the performance indicators chemonics developed were not well defined . 4 chemonics also spent more than 75 % of program budgets on material and equipment when an expenditure of only 30 % was planned . 5 an inspector general s report also found that local communities were not sufficiently involved with chemonics work and stated chemonics used contractors from port au prince to implement a number of activities in cap haitien and saint marc ; these contractors brought their own people to do the jobs instead of hiring locals . 4 when locals were required by usaid chemonics policies limited the transparency of the selection process and increase the risk of corruption or favoritism by granting decision making authority to a few individuals . 5 in november 2006 usaid afghanistan awarded a 62 million contract to chemonics with an expected end date of march 2010 . a 2008 audit of the contract by oig found that chemonics results fell considerably short of intended results and buildings constructed by chemonics subcontractors were not acceptable because of significant construction defects . 6 references edit obituaries . washingtonpost.com . 2005 04 02 . retrieved 2014 01 20 . breaking open the black box pdf . center for economic and policy research . april 2013 . retrieved 2015 04 25 . mendoza martha 2010 12 12 . outsourcing quake assistance haitian contractors get only 1.6 % of u.s. aid . retrieved 2015 04 25 . a b audit of usaid s haiti recovery initiative activities managed by office of transition initiatives pdf . us agency for international development office of inspector general . 2012 09 26 . retrieved 2015 04 25 . a b audit of usaid s cash for work activities in haiti pdf . us agency for international development office of inspector general . 2010 09 24 . retrieved 2015 04 25 . audit of usaid afghanistan s accelerating sustainable agriculture program pdf . us agency for international development office of inspector general . 2008 08 08 . retrieved 2015 04 25 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title chemonics & oldid 740598855 categories united states agency for international developmentinternational developmentconsultingeconomic developmenteconomic growth navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 22 september 2016 at 02 21 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view