policy decisions, including why certain development projects are funded and others are not, successes, and best practices, including their applicability to other existing programs and projects;

delivery obstacles, including the roles of United States agencies and other governmental and nongovernmental organizations;

methodology, including whether the delivery of United States development assistance always represents best practices and whether it can be improved; and

results, including measuring improvements in human capacity instead of in purely economic terms.

identify the past and present objectives of United States development assistance, identify cases in which those objectives have been met, identify the beneficiaries of such assistance, and what percentage of the funds provided actually reached the intended beneficiaries;

identify cases in which United States development assistance has been most successful, and analyze how such successes may be transferable to other countries or areas;

study ways to expand educational opportunities and investments in people, and assess infrastructure needs;

analyze how the United States could place conditions on governments in countries receiving United States development assistance, in light of and notwithstanding the objectives of the Millennium Challenge Account;

analyze ways in which the United States can coordinate its development assistance programs with those of other donor countries and international organizations;

analyze ways in which the safety of development assistance workers can be ensured, particularly in the midst of conflicts;

compare the effectiveness of increased and open trade with development assistance, and analyze the advantages and disadvantages of such trade and whether such trade could be a more effective alternative to United States development assistance;

analyze ways in which the United States can strengthen the capacity of indigenous nongovernmental organizations to be more effective in grassroots development;

analyze ways in which decisions on providing development assistance can involve more of the people of the recipient countries;

analyze ways in which results can be measured if United States development assistance is targeted to the least developed countries;

recommend standards that should be set for “graduating” recipient countries from United States development assistance;

analyze whether United States development assistance should be used as a means to achieve United States foreign policy objectives;

analyze how the United States can evaluate the performance of its development assistance programs not only against economic indicators, but in other ways, including how to measure the success of United States development assistance in democratization efforts; and evaluate the existing foreign assistance framework to ascertain the degree of coordination, or lack thereof, of the disparate foreign development programs as administered by the various Federal agencies, to identify and assess the redundancies of programs and organizational structures engaged in foreign assistance, and to recommend revisions to authorizing legislation for foreign assistance that would seek to reconcile competing foreign policy and foreign aid goals; and

study any other areas that the Commission considers necessary relating to United States development assistance.

Six members shall be appointed by the President, of whom at least two shall be representatives of nongovernmental organizations.

Four members shall be appointed by the majority leader of the Senate, and three members shall be appointed by the minority leader of the Senate.

Four members shall be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and three members shall be appointed by the minority leader of the House of Representatives.

The Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development shall serve as a member of the Commission, ex officio.

Eleven members of the Commission shall constitute a quorum for purposes of transacting the business of the Commission. The Commission shall meet at the call of the Chair.

A majority of the members of each regional subcommittee shall constitute a quorum for purposes of transacting the business of the subcommittee. Each subcommittee shall meet at the call of the Chair of the subcommittee.

Subject to subparagraph (B), members of the Commission shall serve without pay.

Members of the Commission who are full-time officers or employees of the United States or Members of Congress may not receive additional pay, allowances, or benefits by reason of their service on the Commission.

The Chairman of the Commission may, without regard to the civil service laws and regulations, appoint and terminate an executive director and such other additional personnel as may be necessary to enable the Commission to perform its duties. The employment of an executive director shall be subject to confirmation by the Commission.

A description of the amount and nature of economic assistance provided by other donors during the preceding 3 fiscal years, set forth by development sector to the extent possible.

A discussion of the commitment of the host government to addressing the country’s needs in each development sector, including a description of the resources devoted by that government to each development sector during the preceding 3 fiscal years.

A description of the trends, both favorable and unfavorable, in each development sector.

Statistical and other information necessary to evaluate the impact and effectiveness of United States economic assistance on development in the country.

A comparison of the analysis provided in the report with relevant analyses by international financial institutions, other international organizations, other donor countries, or nongovernmental organizations.

each country in which United States economic assistance has been most successful, as indicated by the extent to which the specific objectives the United States sought to achieve in providing the assistance for the country, as referred to in paragraph (1)(A)(i), were achieved; and

each country in which United States economic assistance has been least successful, as indicated by the extent to which the specific objectives the United States sought to achieve in providing the assistance for the country, as referred to in paragraph (1)(A)(i), were not achieved; and, for each such country, an explanation of why the assistance was not more successful and a specification of what the United States has done as a result.

to assist the development and economic advancement of friendly foreign countries and peoples;

to promote the freedom, aspirations, or sustenance of friendly peoples under oppressive rule by unfriendly governments;

to promote international trade and foreign direct investment as a means of aiding economic growth;

to save lives and alleviate suffering of foreign peoples during or following wars, natural disasters, or complex crisies 2 ;

to assist in recovery and rehabilitation of countries or peoples following disaster or war;

to protect refugees and promote durable solutions to aid refugees;

to promote sound environmental practices;

to assist in development of democratic institutions and good governance by the people of foreign countries;

to promote peace and reconciliation or prevention of conflict;

to improve the technical capacities of governments to reduce production of and demand for illicit narcotics; and

to otherwise promote through bilateral foreign economic assistance the national objectives of the United States.