3.0.0 2184 2023-01-11T13:29:18Z 2023-01-11T13:29:18Z Senate S 2015-10-20 114 ssfr00 Foreign Relations Committee Senate Standing Reported by 2015-11-17T21:11:33Z Markup by 2015-11-10T14:45:00Z Referred to 2015-10-20T19:04:02Z Foreign Aid Transparency and Accountability Act of 2016 114 3766 HR 2016-07-15 Became Public Law No: 114-191. Related bill CRS Related bill House 2015-11-17 Senate Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 295. Calendars 2015-11-17 ssfr00 Foreign Relations Committee Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported by Senator Corker with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report. Committee 2015-11-17 Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported by Senator Corker with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report. Committee 14000 9 Library of Congress ssfr00 Foreign Relations Committee 2015-11-10 ssfr00 Foreign Relations Committee Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably. Committee 2015-10-20 ssfr00 Foreign Relations Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. IntroReferral 2015-10-20 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress R000595 Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL] Marco Rubio R FL N C000141 Sen. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD] Ben Cardin D MD 2015-10-20 True I000055 Sen. Isakson, Johnny [R-GA] Johnny Isakson R GA 2015-10-27 False C001088 Sen. Coons, Christopher A. [D-DE] Christopher Coons D DE A. 2015-10-29 False 2015-11-30T22:33:51Z S. 2184, Foreign Aid Transparency and Accountability Act of 2015 https://www.cbo.gov/publication/51039 As reported by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on November 10, 2015 International Affairs Congressional oversight Department of State Foreign aid and international relief Government information and archives Government studies and investigations Performance measurement U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) International Affairs 00 2015-10-20 Introduced in Senate 2016-03-04T17:53:11Z Foreign Aid Transparency and Accountability Act of 2015

This bill requires the President to establish guidelines for the establishment of measurable goals, performance metrics, and monitoring and evaluation plans for U.S. foreign development and economic assistance.

The Department of State shall update its Internet website, ForeignAssistance.gov, to make publicly available comprehensive and accessible information on U.S. foreign development and economic assistance programs.

The head of each federal department or agency that administers U.S. foreign development and economic assistance shall provide the State Department with comprehensive information about such assistance programs.

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(Sec. 3) This bill requires the President to establish guidelines for the establishment of measurable goals, performance metrics, and monitoring and evaluation plans for U.S. foreign development and economic assistance.

The guidelines shall provide direction to federal departments and agencies that administer U.S. foreign development and economic assistance on how to:

  • establish annual monitoring and evaluation agendas and objectives;
  • develop specific project monitoring and evaluation plans;
  • apply monitoring and evaluation methodologies to such programs;
  • disseminate guidelines for the development and implementation of monitoring and evaluation programs to personnel who are responsible for program design, implementation, and management;
  • establish data collection methodologies;
  • evaluate, at least once in their lifetime, all programs whose dollar value equals or exceeds the median program size for the relevant office or bureau;
  • develop a clearinghouse capacity for the collection and dissemination of knowledge and lessons learned that serve as benchmarks for future programs;
  • distribute evaluation reports internally;
  • publicly report evaluations and related recommendations;
  • undertake collaborative partnerships and coordinate efforts with appropriate implementing partners, and academic, national and international institutions; and
  • make verifiable and timely data available to monitoring and evaluation personnel.

The President shall provide Congress with a detailed description of such guidelines.

The Government Accountability Office shall submit a report to Congress that:

  • analyzes such guidelines; and
  • compares the President's fiscal year budget request of every operational unit that carries out U.S. foreign development and economic assistance, and the performance of such units during the most recently completed fiscal year.

(Sec. 4) The Department of State shall update its Internet website, ForeignAssistance.gov, to make publicly available comprehensive and accessible information on U.S. foreign development and economic assistance programs.

The head of each federal department or agency that administers U.S. foreign development and economic assistance shall provide the State Department each quarter with comprehensive information about such assistance programs.

Assistance program information shall be published: (1) on an award-by-award and country-by-country basis, or (2) on an award-by-award and region-by-region basis if provided on a regional level.

Such information shall include: (1) links to all regional, country, and sector assistance strategies, annual budget documents, congressional budget justifications, and evaluations; (2) basic descriptive summaries for foreign development and economic assistance programs and awards under such programs; and (3) obligations and expenditures.

If the head of a federal department or agency determines that the inclusion of a required item of information online would jeopardize the health or security of an implementing partner or program beneficiary or would require the release of proprietary information, he or she shall provide such determination along with a briefing or written report to Congress.

If the State Department determines that the inclusion of a required item of information online would be detrimental to U.S. national interests the State Department shall provide the determination to Congress along with a briefing or written report.

It is the sense of Congress that the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) should, by the end of FY2018, coordinate data collection consolidation for the State Department's website, ForeignAssistance.gov, and USAID's website, Explorer.USAID.gov.

]]> Foreign Aid Transparency and Accountability Act of 2015 Display Title Foreign Aid Transparency and Accountability Act of 2015 Official Title as Introduced A bill to direct the President to establish guidelines for United States foreign development and economic assistance programs, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Foreign Aid Transparency and Accountability Act of 2015 Short Titles as Reported to Senate Foreign Aid Transparency and Accountability Act of 2015 S Senate Reported to Senate 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-114s2184rs/xml/BILLS-114s2184rs.xml Introduced in Senate 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-114s2184is/xml/BILLS-114s2184is.xml 2015-11-17 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 295. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.