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IFRC Ebola response: the payment needs an explanation

IFRC disclosed CHF 354,500 in undocumented and unjustified supplier payments in its Guinea Ebola response. This research fixture asks what would let a reviewer explain a payment; it is not a frozen desk record.

What happened

The Guinea Ebola response needed operational services; IFRC later had to account for the payments behind them.

What the source found

IFRC reported supplier payments without documentation or justification, leaving a concrete question about what supported payment.

Checklist

Checklist: Trace-li IFRC case review questions (proposed)

On file

Recorded as present in this packet.

Source and procedural status
IFRC financial disclosure; auditor report dated 3 September 2019. Historical record, not a current finding.
Supplier payments described in the source
CHF 354,500 in supplier payments lacked documentation and justification; included within approximately CHF 1.5 million of confirmed and at-risk losses in Guinea.

Missing

Not established by this packet. This does not prove the evidence was absent from the original award file.

Supplier payment basis and supporting documents
Service completion and acceptance record

Boundary

IFRC is the subject and source of this historical financial disclosure, not a Trace-li customer or endorser. The CHF 354,500 is included within the wider Guinea amount, not additional to it. This card does not say Trace-li prevents fraud. Missing from this research packet does not mean absent from every original file. No frozen judgment or current institutional risk rating is issued.

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Hashes are not issued on this fixture. When a freeze exists, the snapshot hash and the packs hash let a reader recompute the record and confirm it has not changed.

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Summary

Fixture · awaiting founder freeze. Trace-li has not frozen this record. Hashes are not issued.

What the source says

The Guinea Ebola response needed operational services; IFRC later had to account for the payments behind them. This card follows the financial disclosure, not an imagined procurement officer or a reconstructed tender.

What was missing

IFRC reported supplier payments without documentation or justification, leaving a concrete question about what supported payment. The public note does not identify which approval or acceptance document was absent for each transaction.

Findings

1. The explanation behind the payment
Note 9a describes a review triggered by a 2016 fraud allegation involving vehicle hire, volunteer payments, and customs clearance. It distinguishes confirmed and at-risk losses rather than presenting every amount as proven theft.
Printed p. 12 (PDF p. 13), note 9a: Guinea

What followed

The disclosed amount was recorded as a loss in the 2016 statements; the Guinea case remained with local investigators at the date of the 2019 report. A later recovery or final legal outcome was not established in the sources reviewed for this card.

The award-assurance question

Can a reviewer open the approved service, price basis, supporting evidence, and payment authorization without asking the original team to reconstruct them?

Where Trace-li fits

This fixture proposes a small review trail from the payment back to its supporting decision. The questions are Trace-li analysis, not an IFRC-approved policy pack or an assessment of a live award. A complete document trail still needs substantive human review.

Readiness and disposition

Not issued

Not issued. This fixture has not been through a desk freeze, so readiness is left blank rather than shown as unknown, red, amber, or green.

No disposition. A founder-confirmed desk freeze has not been recorded.

Checklist scope finding slice. Not a full Grant Regulations judgment. Shown for shape. Not stamped in force. Schema case-card-export-v1.

Pattern tickets

Stable ids for later checklist and judgment changes. A stub is seeded here. It is not yet an accepted rule.

stub
Supplier payment basis and supporting documents
pt:ifrc-ebola-supplier-payments:payment-basis
Proposed review question: can the reviewer follow a supplier payment to its approved service, price, supporting documents, and authorization? An unpublished document is distinct from evidence that it never existed.
Pack ifrc-public-source-review · no pack rule yet · procurement.supplier_payment_basis
stub
Service completion and acceptance record
pt:ifrc-ebola-supplier-payments:service-acceptance
Proposed review question: who confirmed the service was delivered, and where is the dated acceptance evidence? The financial note does not identify a particular missing acceptance form.
Pack ifrc-public-source-review · no pack rule yet · procurement.service_acceptance

Primary sources

IFRC; independent auditor report by KPMG · 2019-09-03
Combined Ebola appeal financial statements, 1 January 2017–31 October 2018
Printed p. 12 (PDF p. 13), note 9a: Guinea

Public source file

SHA-256 of the retained PDF, retrieved 8 October 2026. Source-file hash only; not a desk freeze.

acf3202b9e44252a2e5e6b4402799eab218390b6f1375e02dfc126da5299d8b4

Redaction

Public

Historical institutional source, its scope and procedural status, and proposed review questions

Withheld

Personal and supplier identities
Underlying transaction records, customer data, and any invented award chronology
Freeze hashes and readiness: no founder-confirmed freeze exists

Hashes and registry fields

Snapshot hash: Not issued
Packs hash: Not issued
Hash method: Not issued
Frozen record id: Not assigned
Case id: case:ifrc-ebola-supplier-payments
Organization id: org:public-case-cards
Project id: project:ifrc-ebola-supplier-payments
Award id: research:ifrc-ebola-supplier-payments

Snapshot and packs hashes are omitted. They are produced only by freezeAtJudgment (sha256:sorted-json-v1). The sha256 on the primary source file identifies the retained public source file, not a freeze hash.

Pack ids

Trace-li IFRC case review questions (proposed) · ifrc-public-source-review · research-2026-10-08

Classification public-source. Reference ifrc-ebola-supplier-payments. Donor Individual donor not established for these payments. Each value is present, missing, or negative. Verification on this fixture is unverified until a founder freeze.

research.source_statusPresent
IFRC financial disclosure; auditor report dated 3 September 2019. Historical record, not a current finding.
Printed p. 12 (PDF p. 13), note 9a: Guinea · unverified
Field id field:ifrc-ebola-supplier-payments:research.source_status · entity evidence evidence:ifrc-ebola-supplier-payments:research.source_status · source page source:ifrc-ebola-supplier-payments:research.source_status · confidence 1 · source file acf3202b9e44252a2e5e6b4402799eab218390b6f1375e02dfc126da5299d8b4
research.payment_findingPresent
CHF 354,500 in supplier payments lacked documentation and justification; included within approximately CHF 1.5 million of confirmed and at-risk losses in Guinea.
Printed p. 12 (PDF p. 13), note 9a: Guinea · unverified
Field id field:ifrc-ebola-supplier-payments:research.payment_finding · entity evidence evidence:ifrc-ebola-supplier-payments:research.payment_finding · source page source:ifrc-ebola-supplier-payments:research.payment_finding · confidence 1 · source file acf3202b9e44252a2e5e6b4402799eab218390b6f1375e02dfc126da5299d8b4
procurement.supplier_payment_basisMissing
The financial note reports the payment deficiency but does not supply transaction-level supporting documents or authorizations. Missing from this public-source packet; no reconstructed finding about a particular approval.
Printed p. 12 (PDF p. 13), note 9a: Guinea · unverified
Field id field:ifrc-ebola-supplier-payments:procurement.supplier_payment_basis · entity evidence evidence:ifrc-ebola-supplier-payments:procurement.supplier_payment_basis · source page source:ifrc-ebola-supplier-payments:procurement.supplier_payment_basis · confidence 1 · source file acf3202b9e44252a2e5e6b4402799eab218390b6f1375e02dfc126da5299d8b4
procurement.service_acceptanceMissing
Service completion and acceptance evidence is not included in the reviewed note. This is a proposed review question, not an additional IFRC finding.
Printed p. 12 (PDF p. 13), note 9a: Guinea · unverified
Field id field:ifrc-ebola-supplier-payments:procurement.service_acceptance · entity evidence evidence:ifrc-ebola-supplier-payments:procurement.service_acceptance · source page source:ifrc-ebola-supplier-payments:procurement.service_acceptance · confidence 1 · source file acf3202b9e44252a2e5e6b4402799eab218390b6f1375e02dfc126da5299d8b4