[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1271 Reported in Senate (RS)]
Calendar No. 283
113th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 1271
[Report No. 113-131]
To direct the President to establish guidelines for United States
foreign assistance programs, and for other purposes.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
July 10, 2013
Mr. Rubio (for himself, Mr. Cardin, Mr. Isakson, Mr. Tester, Ms.
Warren, Mr. Kirk, Mr. Johanns, and Mr. Coons) introduced the following
bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign
Relations
December 20, 2013
Reported by Mr. Menendez, with an amendment
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed
in italic]
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A BILL
To direct the President to establish guidelines for United States
foreign assistance programs, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
<DELETED>SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.</DELETED>
<DELETED> This Act may be cited as the ``Foreign Aid Transparency
and Accountability Act of 2013''.</DELETED>
<DELETED>SEC. 2. GUIDELINES FOR UNITED STATES FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
PROGRAMS.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (a) Purpose.--The purpose of this section is to evaluate
the performance of United States foreign assistance and its
contribution to policy, strategies, projects, program goals, and
priorities undertaken by the Federal Government, to foster and promote
innovative programs to improve effectiveness, and to coordinate the
monitoring and evaluation processes of Federal departments and agencies
that administer foreign assistance.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (b) Establishment of Guidelines.--Not later than 18 months
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the President shall
establish guidelines regarding the establishment of measurable goals,
performance metrics, and monitoring and evaluation plans that can be
applied with reasonable consistency to United States foreign
assistance. Such guidelines shall be established according to best
practices of monitoring and evaluation studies and analyses.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (c) Objectives of Guidelines.--</DELETED>
<DELETED> (1) In general.--The guidelines established under
subsection (b) shall provide direction to Federal departments
and agencies that administer United States foreign assistance
on how to develop the complete range of activities relating to
the monitoring of resources, the evaluation of projects, the
evaluation of program impacts, and analysis that is necessary
for the identification of findings, generalizations that can be
derived from those findings, and their applicability to
proposed project and program design.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (2) Objectives.--Specifically, the guidelines
shall provide direction on how to achieve the following
objectives for monitoring and evaluation programs:</DELETED>
<DELETED> (A) Building measurable goals, performance
metrics and monitoring and evaluation into program
design, to be tracked against an established baseline
at the outset, including the provision of sufficient
program resources to conduct monitoring and
evaluation.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (B) Disseminating guidelines for the
development and implementation of monitoring and
evaluation programs to all personnel, especially in the
field, who are responsible for the design,
implementation, and management of foreign assistance
programs.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (C) Developing a clearinghouse capacity
for the collection and dissemination of knowledge and
lessons learned that serve as benchmarks to guide
future programs for United States development
professionals, implementing partners, the international
aid community, and aid recipient governments, and as a
repository of knowledge on lessons learned.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (D) Distributing evaluation reports
internally and making this material available online to
the public. Furthermore, providing a summary of each
evaluation, including a description of the evaluation
methodology, and key findings and recommendations made
in the evaluation, to the public online in a fully
searchable form within 90 days after the completion of
the evaluation. Any material made available online
pursuant to this subparagraph may not include any
classified or proprietary information of
nongovernmental organizations, contractors, or private
sector clients.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (E) Establishing annual monitoring and
evaluation agendas and objectives.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (F) Applying rigorous monitoring and
evaluation methodologies to focus on learning,
accountability, and policymaking, choosing from among a
wide variety of qualitative, quantitative, summative,
and formative methods common in the field of social
scientific inquiry, including impact evaluations, a
simple grading system providing a clear evaluation of
outcomes, and analysis of project logic that includes
inputs, activities, outputs, intermediate outcomes, and
end outcomes.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (G) Partnering with the academic
community, implementing partners, and national and
international institutions that have expertise in
monitoring and evaluation and analysis when such
partnerships will provide needed expertise or will
significantly improve the evaluation and
analysis.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (H) Developing and implementing a training
plan for aid personnel on the proper conduct of
monitoring and evaluation programs.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (I) Providing relevant and useful
evaluation questions that meet the needs of
decisionmakers, an appropriate and feasible design for
the evaluation questions, and criteria that permit
objective assessment and valid conclusions on the
evaluation questions.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (J) Ensuring sufficient, credible, and
reliable measures and data in the evaluation of the
effectiveness of foreign assistance programs, including
an assessment of assumptions and limitations in such
evaluations.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (K) Ensuring that generally accepted
standards such as independence, professional judgment,
competence, and quality control and assurance are
followed in the monitoring and evaluation of
programs.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (d) Implementation of Guidelines.--Beginning not later
than one year after the date on which the President establishes the
guidelines under subsection (b), the head of each Federal department or
agency that administers United States foreign assistance shall
administer the foreign assistance in accordance with the
guidelines.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (e) Presidential Report.--Not later than 18 months after
the date of the enactment of this Act, the President shall submit to
the appropriate congressional committees a report that contains a
detailed description of the guidelines that have been developed on
measurable goals, performance metrics, and monitoring and evaluation
plans for United States foreign assistance programs established under
this section. The report shall be submitted in unclassified form to the
maximum extent possible, but may contain a classified annex.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (f) Implementation Not Required for Certain Security
Sector Assistance.--</DELETED>
<DELETED> (1) In general.--The Secretary of State shall not
be required to administer any United States foreign assistance
program relating to United States security sector assistance in
accordance with the guidelines established under this section
if the Secretary of State makes a determination that the
administration of such program in accordance with the
guidelines would be detrimental to the national interests of
the United States.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (2) Briefings or report.--The Secretary of State
shall provide briefings or submit a written report to the
appropriate congressional committees explaining any
determination made under paragraph (1). Any such report may be
submitted to the appropriate congressional committees in
classified form.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (g) Comptroller General Reports.--The Comptroller General
of the United States shall--</DELETED>
<DELETED> (1) not later than one year after the date of the
enactment of this Act, submit to the appropriate congressional
committees a report that contains an analysis of the actions
that the major Federal departments and agencies that administer
United States foreign assistance have taken to ensure that
United States foreign assistance program evaluation is planned,
conducted, and utilized effectively;</DELETED>
<DELETED> (2) not later than three years after the date of
the enactment of this Act, submit to the appropriate
congressional committees a report that contains an analysis
of--</DELETED>
<DELETED> (A) the guidelines established pursuant to
subsection (b); and</DELETED>
<DELETED> (B) the implementation of the guidelines
by the major Federal departments and agencies that
administer United States foreign assistance;
and</DELETED>
<DELETED> (3) not later than 5 years after the date of the
enactment of this Act, and biennially thereafter for 8 years,
submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report
that contains an analysis of the implementation of the
guidelines by the major Federal departments and agencies that
administer United States foreign assistance.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (h) Evaluation Defined.--In this section, the term
``evaluation'' means, with respect to a United States foreign
assistance program, the systematic collection and analysis of
information about the characteristics and outcomes of the program and
projects under the program as a basis for judgments, to improve
effectiveness, and to inform decisions about current and future
programming.</DELETED>
<DELETED>SEC. 3. INTERNET WEBSITE TO MAKE PUBLICLY AVAILABLE
COMPREHENSIVE, TIMELY, COMPARABLE, AND ACCESSIBLE
INFORMATION ON UNITED STATES FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
PROGRAMS.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (a) Publication of Information.--</DELETED>
<DELETED> (1) Establishment of website.--Not later than 30
days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the President
shall direct the Secretary of State to revise the Department of
State's Internet website, ``ForeignAssistance.gov'', to make
publicly available comprehensive, timely, comparable, and
accessible information on United States foreign assistance
programs.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (2) Information sharing.--The head of each Federal
department or agency that administers United States foreign
assistance shall, not later than two years after the date of
the enactment of this Act, and every 90 days thereafter,
provide to the Secretary of State information about the foreign
assistance programs carried out by such department or
agency.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (3) Updates to website.--The Secretary of State
shall publish not later than 2 years after the date of the
enactment of this Act and update on a quarterly basis on the
``ForeignAssistance.gov'' website the information provided
under paragraph (2).</DELETED>
<DELETED> (b) Matters To Be Included.--</DELETED>
<DELETED> (1) In general.--The information described in
subsection (a) shall be published on a detailed program-by-
program basis and country-by-country basis.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (2) Types of information.--To ensure transparency,
accountability, and effectiveness of United States foreign
assistance programs, the information described in subsection
(a) shall include country assistance strategies, annual budget
documents, congressional budget justifications, obligations,
expenditures, and reports and evaluations for United States
foreign assistance programs and projects under such programs.
Each type of information described in this paragraph shall be
published or updated on the Internet website not later than 90
days after the date of issuance of the information.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (3) Report in lieu of inclusion.--</DELETED>
<DELETED> (A) Health or security of implementing
partners.--If the head of a Federal department or
agency makes a determination that the inclusion of a
required item of information on the Internet website
would jeopardize the health or security of an
implementing partner or program beneficiary, the head
of the Federal department or agency may provide
briefings to the appropriate congressional committees
on the item of information or submit to the appropriate
congressional committees the item of information in a
written report in lieu of including it on the Internet
website, along with the reasons for not including it in
the database required under this section.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (B) National interests of the united
states.--If the Secretary of State makes a
determination that the inclusion of a required item of
information on the Internet website would be
detrimental to the national interests of the United
States, the Secretary of State shall provide briefings
to the appropriate congressional committees on the item
of information or submit to the appropriate
congressional committees the item of information in a
written report in lieu of including it on the Internet
website, along with the reasons for not including it in
the database required under this section.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (C) Form.--Any briefing or item of
information provided under this paragraph may be
provided in classified form.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (4) Failure to comply.--If the head of the
department or agency fails to comply with the requirements
under paragraph (2), the head shall indicate for each required
item--</DELETED>
<DELETED> (A) identification of the reason for not
including the information during that
quarter;</DELETED>
<DELETED> (B) a detailed explanation of the reason;
and</DELETED>
<DELETED> (C) the department's or agency's plan and
timeline for including the omitted information for the
current fiscal year and the following two fiscal years,
including milestones, deadlines, prerequisites, and
other explanatory information.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (c) Scope of Information.--</DELETED>
<DELETED> (1) In general.--The Internet website shall
contain the information described in subsection (b) as
follows:</DELETED>
<DELETED> (A) For fiscal year 2013, the information
relating to such fiscal year and each of the
immediately preceding 2 fiscal years.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (B) For fiscal year 2014, the information
relating to such fiscal year and each of the
immediately preceding 3 fiscal years.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (C) For fiscal year 2015, the information
relating to such fiscal year and each of the
immediately preceding 4 fiscal years.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (D) For fiscal year 2016, the information
relating to such fiscal year and each of the
immediately preceding 5 fiscal years.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (2) Older information.--For fiscal year 2017 and
each fiscal year thereafter, the Internet website shall also
contain a link to a searchable database available to the public
containing information described in subsection (b) relating to
fiscal years prior to the immediately preceding 5 fiscal years
but subsequent to fiscal year 2010.</DELETED>
<DELETED>SEC. 4. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON IMPLEMENTATION.</DELETED>
<DELETED> It is the sense of Congress that Congress shall take into
account the Comptroller General's reports under section 2(f)(2) when
making decisions regarding the appropriation of funds for each
department or agency that administers United States foreign
assistance.</DELETED>
<DELETED>SEC. 5. AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.</DELETED>
<DELETED> Up to 5 percent of the amounts authorized to be
appropriated for a fiscal year for each Federal department or agency
for United States foreign assistance programs is authorized to be
appropriated to carry out this Act with respect to such programs for
such fiscal year.</DELETED>
<DELETED>SEC. 6. DEFINITIONS.</DELETED>
<DELETED> In this Act:</DELETED>
<DELETED> (1) Appropriate congressional committees.--The
term ``appropriate congressional committees'' means--</DELETED>
<DELETED> (A) the Committee on Foreign Relations and
the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate;
and</DELETED>
<DELETED> (B) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and
the Committee on Appropriations of the House of
Representatives.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (2) United states foreign assistance.--The term
``United States foreign assistance'' means any tangible or
intangible item provided by any agency of the United States
Government to a foreign country, including any training,
service, or technical advice, any item of real, personal, or
mixed property, any agricultural commodity, United States
dollars, and any currencies of any foreign country which are
owned by the United States Government, and includes foreign
assistance provided by means of gift, loan, sale, credit, or
guaranty.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (3) United states security sector assistance.--The
term ``United States security sector assistance'' means the
policies, programs, and activities the United States Government
employs to engage with foreign partners in the use of force to
protect both the foreign state and its citizens at home or
abroad, to maintain international peace and security, to
contribute to efforts that address common security challenges,
and to enforce the law and provide oversight of security
institutions and forces, including through helping foreign
partners build and sustain the capacity and effectiveness of
institutions to provide security, safety, and justice for their
people.</DELETED>
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Foreign Aid Transparency and
Accountability Act of 2013''.
SEC. 2. GUIDELINES FOR UNITED STATES FOREIGN ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS.
(a) Purpose.--The purpose of this section is to evaluate the
performance of United States foreign assistance and its contribution to
policy, strategies, projects, program goals, and priorities undertaken
by the Federal Government, to foster and promote innovative programs to
improve effectiveness, and to coordinate the monitoring and evaluation
processes of Federal departments and agencies that administer foreign
assistance.
(b) Establishment of Guidelines.--Not later than 18 months after
the date of the enactment of this Act, the President shall establish
guidelines to set measurable goals, performance metrics, and monitoring
and evaluation plans that can be applied with reasonable consistency to
United States foreign assistance programs.
(c) Objectives of Guidelines.--
(1) In general.--The guidelines established under
subsection (b) shall provide direction to Federal departments
and agencies that administer United States foreign assistance
on how to develop the complete range of activities relating to
the monitoring of resources, the evaluation of projects, the
evaluation of program impacts, and analysis that is necessary
for the identification of findings, generalizations that can be
derived from those findings, and their applicability to
proposed project and program design.
(2) Objectives.--Specifically, the guidelines shall provide
direction on how to achieve the following objectives for
monitoring and evaluation programs:
(A) Building measurable goals, performance metrics
and monitoring and evaluation into program design, to
be tracked against an established baseline at the
outset, including the provision of sufficient program
resources to conduct monitoring and evaluation.
(B) Disseminating guidelines for the development
and implementation of monitoring and evaluation
programs to all personnel, especially in the field, who
are responsible for the design, implementation, and
management of foreign assistance programs.
(C) Developing a clearinghouse capacity for the
collection and dissemination of knowledge and lessons
learned that serve as benchmarks to guide future
programs for United States development professionals,
implementing partners, the international aid community,
and aid recipient governments, and as a repository of
knowledge on lessons learned.
(D) Distributing evaluation reports internally and
making this material available online to the public.
Furthermore, providing a summary of each evaluation,
including a description of the evaluation methodology,
and key findings and recommendations made in the
evaluation, to the public online in a fully searchable
form within 90 days after the completion of the
evaluation. Any material made available online pursuant
to this subparagraph may not include any classified or
proprietary information of nongovernmental
organizations, contractors, or private sector clients.
(E) Establishing annual monitoring and evaluation
agendas and objectives.
(F) Applying rigorous monitoring and evaluation
methodologies to focus on learning, accountability, and
policymaking, choosing from among a wide variety of
qualitative, quantitative, summative, and formative
methods common in the field of social scientific
inquiry, including impact evaluations, a simple grading
system providing a clear evaluation of outcomes, and
analysis of project logic that includes inputs,
activities, outputs, intermediate outcomes, and end
outcomes.
(G) Partnering with the academic community,
implementing partners, and national and international
institutions that have expertise in monitoring and
evaluation and analysis when such partnerships will
provide needed expertise or will significantly improve
the evaluation and analysis.
(H) Developing and implementing a training plan for
aid personnel on the proper conduct of monitoring and
evaluation programs.
(I) Providing relevant and useful evaluation
questions that meet the needs of decisionmakers, an
appropriate and feasible design for the evaluation
questions, and criteria that permit objective
assessment and valid conclusions on the evaluation
questions.
(J) Ensuring sufficient, credible, and reliable
measures and data in the evaluation of the
effectiveness of foreign assistance programs, including
an assessment of assumptions and limitations in such
evaluations.
(K) Ensuring that generally accepted standards such
as independence, professional judgment, competence, and
quality control and assurance are followed in the
monitoring and evaluation of programs.
(d) Implementation of Guidelines.--Beginning not later than one
year after the date on which the President establishes the guidelines
under subsection (b), the head of each Federal department or agency
that administers United States foreign assistance shall administer the
foreign assistance in accordance with the guidelines.
(e) Presidential Report.--Not later than 18 months after the date
of the enactment of this Act, the President shall submit to the
appropriate congressional committees a report that contains a detailed
description of the guidelines that have been developed on measurable
goals, performance metrics, and monitoring and evaluation plans for
United States foreign assistance programs established under this
section. The report shall be submitted in unclassified form to the
maximum extent possible, but may contain a classified annex.
(f) Guideline Requirement for Certain Security Sector Assistance.--
(1) In general.--The Secretary of State shall not be
required to implement guidelines established under subsection
(b) for certain security sector assistance programs to the
extent that the President is already taking steps as of the
date of the enactment of this Act to implement measures with
respect to security sector assistance that are similar to those
referred to in this section pursuant to guidance that the
President has promulgated.
(2) Notification and briefing requirements.--The Secretary
of State shall provide to the appropriate congressional
committees a classified or unclassified briefing describing any
such measures being implemented.
(g) Comptroller General Reports.--The Comptroller General of the
United States shall--
(1) not later than one year after the date of the enactment
of this Act, submit to the appropriate congressional committees
a report that analyzes the actions taken by each Federal
department and agency that administers United States foreign
assistance programs to ensure that the monitoring and
evaluation of such programs is planned, conducted, and utilized
effectively;
(2) not later than 3 years after the date of the enactment
of this Act, submit to the appropriate congressional committees
a report that analyzes--
(A) the guidelines established pursuant to
subsection (b); and
(B) the implementation of such guidelines by each
Federal department and agency that administers United
States foreign assistance programs; and
(3) not later than 5 years after the date of the enactment
of this Act, and biennially thereafter for 8 years, submit to
the appropriate congressional committees a report that analyzes
any revisions to the guidelines established under subsection
(b), and the implementation of such guidelines by each Federal
department and agency that administers United States foreign
assistance programs.
(h) Evaluation Defined.--In this section, the term ``evaluation''
means, with respect to a United States foreign assistance program, the
systematic collection and analysis of information about the
characteristics and outcomes of the program and projects under the
program as a basis for judgments, to improve effectiveness, and to
inform decisions about current and future programming.
SEC. 3. PROVISION OF PUBLIC INFORMATION ON UNITED STATES FOREIGN
ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS.
(a) Publication of Information.--
(1) Establishment of website.--Not later than 30 days after
the date of the enactment of this Act, the President shall
direct the Secretary of State to revise the Department of
State's Internet website, ``ForeignAssistance.gov'', to make
publicly available comprehensive, timely, comparable, and
accessible information on United States foreign assistance
programs.
(2) Information sharing.--The head of each Federal
department or agency that administers United States foreign
assistance shall, not later than two years after the date of
the enactment of this Act, and every 120 days thereafter,
provide to the Secretary of State information about the foreign
assistance programs carried out by such department or agency.
(3) Updates to website.--The Secretary of State shall
publish not later than 2 years after the date of the enactment
of this Act and update on a semiannual basis on the
``ForeignAssistance.gov'' website the information provided
under paragraph (2).
(b) Matters To Be Included.--
(1) In general.--The information described in subsection
(a) shall be published on a detailed program-by-program basis
and country-by-country basis.
(2) Types of information.--To ensure transparency,
accountability, and effectiveness of United States foreign
assistance programs, the information described in subsection
(a) shall include country assistance strategies, annual budget
documents, congressional budget justifications, obligations,
expenditures, and reports and evaluations for United States
foreign assistance programs and projects under such programs.
Each type of information described in this paragraph shall be
published or updated on the Internet website not later than 90
days after the date of issuance of the information.
(3) Report in lieu of inclusion.--
(A) Health or security of implementing partners.--
If the head of a Federal department or agency makes a
determination that the inclusion of a required item of
information on the Internet website would jeopardize
the health or security of an implementing partner or
program beneficiary, the head of the Federal department
or agency may provide briefings to the appropriate
congressional committees on the item of information or
submit to the appropriate congressional committees the
item of information in a written report in lieu of
including it on the Internet website, along with the
reasons for not including it in the database required
under this section.
(B) National interests of the united states.--If
the Secretary of State makes a determination that the
inclusion of a required item of information on the
Internet website would be detrimental to the national
interests of the United States, the Secretary of State
shall provide briefings to the appropriate
congressional committees on the item of information or
submit to the appropriate congressional committees the
item of information in a written report in lieu of
including it on the Internet website, along with the
reasons for not including it in the database required
under this section.
(C) Form.--Any briefing or item of information
provided under this paragraph may be provided in
classified form.
(4) Failure to comply.--If the head of the department or
agency fails to comply with the requirements under paragraph
(2), the head shall provide to the appropriate congressional
committees a briefing indicating for each required item--
(A) identification of the reason for not including
the information;
(B) a detailed explanation of the reason; and
(C) the department's or agency's plan and timeline
for including the omitted information for the current
fiscal year and the following two fiscal years,
including milestones, deadlines, prerequisites, and
other explanatory information.
(c) Scope of Information.--
(1) In general.--The online publication required by
subsection (a) shall, at a minimum, provide the information
required by subsection (b)--
(A) in each fiscal year from 2013 through 2016,
such information for fiscal years 2011 through the
current fiscal year; and
(B) for fiscal year 2017 and each fiscal year
thereafter, such information for the immediately
preceding five fiscal years in a fully searchable form.
SEC. 4. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON IMPLEMENTATION.
It is the sense of Congress that Congress should take into account
the Comptroller General's reports under section 2 in making decisions
regarding the appropriation of funds for each department or agency that
administers United States foreign assistance.
SEC. 5. AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.
Up to 5 percent of the amounts authorized to be appropriated for a
fiscal year for each Federal department or agency for United States
foreign assistance programs is authorized to be appropriated to carry
out this Act with respect to such programs for such fiscal year.
SEC. 6. DEFINITIONS.
In this Act:
(1) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term
``appropriate congressional committees'' means--
(A) the Committee on Foreign Relations and the
Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; and
(B) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the
Committee on Appropriations of the House of
Representatives.
(2) United states foreign assistance.--The term ``United
States foreign assistance'' means any tangible or intangible
item provided by any agency of the United States Government to
a foreign country, including any training, service, or
technical advice, any item of real, personal, or mixed
property, any agricultural commodity, United States dollars,
and any currencies of any foreign country which are owned by
the United States Government, and includes foreign assistance
provided by means of gift, loan, sale, credit, or guaranty.
(3) United states security sector assistance.--The term
``United States security sector assistance'' means the
policies, programs, and activities the United States Government
uses to--
(A) engage with foreign partners and help shape
their policies and actions in the security sector;
(B) help foreign partners build and sustain the
capacity and effectiveness of legitimate institutions
to provide security, safety, and justice for their
people; and
(C) enable foreign partners to contribute to
efforts that address common security challenges.
Calendar No. 283
113th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 1271
[Report No. 113-131]
_______________________________________________________________________
A BILL
To direct the President to establish guidelines for United States
foreign assistance programs, and for other purposes.
_______________________________________________________________________
December 20, 2013
Reported with an amendment