Grants Management: Despite Efforts to Improve Weed and Seed Program Management, Challenges Remain

March 2004 Grants Management: Despite Efforts to Improve Weed and Seed Program Management, Challenges Remain The Weed and Seed program, within the Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs (OJP), aims to prevent and reduce violent crime in targeted neighborhoods, but it cannot optimize its effectiveness without sound management practices. In 1999, GAO made four recommendations to the Executive Office for Weed and Seed (EOWS) to improve the program's management, including (1) developing adequate internal controls to fully document decisions, (2) improving program monitoring, (3) developing criteria for determining when sites have become self-sustaining and when to . . .