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(c)(1) There is established the Helping to Enhance the Liveli-
hood of People (HELP) Around the Globe Commission (in this
section referred to as the ‘‘Commission’’).
(2) The Commission shall—
(A) 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;
(B) 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;
(C) study ways to expand educational opportunities and
investments in people, and assess infrastructure needs;
(D) analyze how the United States could place conditions
on governments in countries receiving United States develop-
ment assistance, in light of and notwithstanding the objectives
of the Millennium Challenge Account;
(E) analyze ways in which the United States can coordinate
its development assistance programs with those of other donor
countries and international organizations;
(F) analyze ways in which the safety of development assist-
ance workers can be ensured, particularly in the midst of
conflicts;
(G) 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;
(H) analyze ways in which the United States can
strengthen 
the 
capacity 
of 
indigenous 
nongovernmental
organizations to be more effective in grassroots development;
(I) analyze ways in which decisions on providing develop-
ment assistance can involve more of the people of the recipient
countries;
(J) analyze ways in which results can be measured if United
States development assistance is targeted to the least developed
countries;
(K) recommend standards that should be set for ‘‘grad-
uating’’ recipient countries from United States development
assistance;
(L) analyze whether United States development assistance
should be used as a means to achieve United States foreign
policy objectives;
(M) 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
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(N) study any other areas that the Commission considers
necessary relating to United States development assistance.
(d)(1) The Commission shall be composed of 21 members as
follows:
(A) Six members shall be appointed by the President, of
whom at least two shall be representatives of nongovernmental
organizations.
(B) 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.
(C) 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 Representa-
tives.
(D) The Administrator of the United States Agency for
International Development shall serve as a member of the
Commission, ex officio.
(2) Members under subparagraphs (A) through (C) of paragraph
(1) shall be appointed for the life of the Commission.
(3) Members of the Commission shall be selected from among
individuals noted for their knowledge and experience in foreign
assistance, particularly development and humanitarian assistance.
(4) The appointments under paragraph (1) shall be made not
later than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this section.
(5) The President shall designate one of the members of the
Commission not currently in Government service as the Chair of
the Commission.
(6) In order to facilitate the workload of the Commission, the
Commission shall divide the membership of the Commission into
three subcommittees representing the different regions of the world
to which the United States provides development assistance, the
membership of each subcommittee to be proportional to the percent-
age of United States development assistance provided to the region
represented by the subcommittee. Each subcommittee shall elect
one of its members as Chair of the subcommittee.
(7)(A) 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.
(B) 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.
(8) Any vacancy of the Commission shall not affect its powers,
but shall be filled in the manner in which the original appointment
was made.
(9) The Administrator of General Services shall provide to
the Commission on a reimbursable basis (or, in the discretion
of the Administrator, on a nonreimbursable basis) such administra-
tive support services as the Commission may request to carry
out this section.
(10)(A) Subject to subparagraph (B), members of the Commis-
sion shall serve without pay.
(B) 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.
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(11) Members of the Commission shall be allowed travel
expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, at rates author-
ized for employees of agencies under subchapter I of chapter 57
of title 5, United States Code, while away from their homes or
regular places of business in the performance of services for the
Commission.
(12)(A) 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.
(B) To the extent or in the amounts provided in advance in
appropriations Acts—
(i) the executive director shall be compensated at the rate
payable for level V of the Executive Schedule under section
5316 of title 5, United States Code; and
(ii) the Chairman of the Commission may fix the compensa-
tion of other personnel without regard to the provisions of
chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5, United
States Code, relating to classification of positions and General
Schedule pay rates, except that the rate of pay for such per-
sonnel may not exceed the rate payable for level V of the
Executive Schedule under section 5316 of such title.
(e)(1) The Commission may, for the purpose of carrying out
its functions under this section, hold hearings, sit and act at times
and places in the United States and in countries that receive
United States development assistance, take testimony, and receive
evidence as the Commission considers advisable to carry out the
purposes of this section.
(2) The Commission may secure directly from any Federal
department or agency such information as the Commission con-
siders necessary to carry out the provisions of this section. Upon
request of the Chair of the Commission, the head of such depart-
ment or agency shall furnish such information to the Commission,
subject to applicable law.
(3) The Commission may use the United States mails in the
same manner and under the same conditions as other departments
and agencies of the Federal Government.
(4) The Commission may adopt such rules and regulations,
relating to administrative procedure, as may be reasonably nec-
essary to enable it to carry out the provisions of this section.
(5) The Members of the Commission may, with the approval
of the Commission, conduct such travel as is necessary to carry
out the purposes of this section. Each trip must be approved by
a majority of the Commission.
(6) Upon the request of the Commission, the head of any
Federal department or agency may detail, on a reimbursable or
nonreimbursable basis, any of the personnel of that department
or agency to the Commission to assist it in carrying out its functions
under this section. The detail of any such personnel shall be without
interruption or loss of civil service or Foreign Service status or
privilege.
(f)(1) Not later than 2 years after the members of the Commis-
sion are appointed under subsection (d)(1), the Commission shall
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submit a report to the President, the Secretary of State, the Com-
mittee on Appropriations and the Committee on International Rela-
tions of the House of Representatives, and the Committee on Appro-
priations and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate,
setting forth its findings and recommendations under section (c)(2).
(2) The report may be submitted in classified form, together
with a public summary of recommendations, if the classification
of information would further the purposes of this section.
(3) Each member of the Commission may include the individual
or dissenting views of the member.
(g) The Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App.) shall
not apply to the Commission.
(h) In this section, the term ‘‘United States development assist-
ance’’ means—
(1) assistance provided by the United States under chapters
1, 10, 11, and 12 of part I of the Foreign Assistance Act
of 1961; and
(2) assistance provided under any other provision of law
to carry out purposes comparable to those set forth in the
provisions referred to in paragraph (1).
(i)(1) There are authorized to be appropriated to the Commis-
sion such sums as may be necessary to carry out this section.
(2) Amounts authorized to be appropriated under subsection
(a) are authorized to remain available until expended, but not
later than the date of termination of the Commission.
(j) The Commission shall terminate 30 days after the submis-
sion of its report under subsection (f).
(k)(1) Not later than April 1, 2004, and April 1 of each third
year thereafter, the President shall transmit to the Congress a
report that analyzes, on a country-by-country basis, the impact
and effectiveness of United States economic assistance furnished
to each country during the preceding 3 fiscal years. The report
shall include the following for each recipient country:
(A) An analysis of the impact of United States economic
assistance during the preceding 3 fiscal years on economic
development in that country, with a discussion of the United
States interests that were served by the assistance. The anal-
ysis shall be done on a sector-by-sector basis to the extent
possible and shall identify any economic policy reforms that
were promoted by the assistance. The analysis shall—
(i) include a description, quantified to the extent prac-
ticable, of the specific objectives the United States sought
to achieve in providing economic assistance for that
country; and
(ii) specify the extent to which those objectives were
not achieved, with an explanation of why they were not
achieved.
(B) 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.
(C) 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 govern-
ment to each development sector during the preceding 3 fiscal
years.