(D) to project general levels of resources 
needed to achieve stated program objectives; 
(E) to develop means to track implementa-
tion in partner countries and ensure that such 
countries are expending appropriate domestic 
resources and instituting any relevant legal, 
regulatory, or institutional reforms needed to 
achieve stated program objectives; 
(F) to leverage United States capabilities, 
including through technical assistance, training, 
and research; and 
(G) to improve coordination and reduce 
duplication among relevant Executive branch 
agencies and officials, other donors, multilateral 
institutions, 
nongovernmental 
organizations, 
and governments in partner countries. 
SEC. 5. IMPROVING COORDINATION AND OVERSIGHT. 
(a) SENIOR
COORDINATOR
OF
UNITED
STATES 
INTERNATIONAL BASIC EDUCATION ASSISTANCE.—There 
is established within the United States Agency for Inter-
national Development a Senior Coordinator of United 
States International Basic Education Assistance (referred 
to in this section as the ‘‘Senior Coordinator’’). The Senior 
Coordinator shall be appointed by the President, shall be 
a current USAID employee serving in a career or non-
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career position in the Senior Executive Service or at the 
level of a Deputy Assistant Administrator or higher, and 
shall serve concurrently as the Senior Coordinator. 
(b) DUTIES.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Senior Coordinator 
shall have primary responsibility for the oversight 
and coordination of all resources and activities of the 
United States Government relating to the promotion 
of international basic education programs and activi-
ties. 
(2) SPECIFIC DUTIES.—The Senior Coordinator 
shall— 
(A) facilitate program and policy coordina-
tion of international basic education programs 
and activities among relevant Executive branch 
agencies and officials, partner governments, 
multilateral institutions, the private sector, and 
nongovernmental and civil society organizations; 
(B) develop and revise the strategy re-
quired under section 4; 
(C) monitor, evaluate, and report on activi-
ties undertaken pursuant to the strategy re-
quired under section 4; and 
(D) establish due diligence criteria for all 
recipients of funds provided by the United 
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States to carry out activities under this Act and 
the amendments made by this Act. 
(c) OFFSET.—In order to eliminate duplication of ef-
fort and activities and to offset any costs incurred by the 
United States Agency for International Development in 
appointing the Senior Coordinator under subsection (a), 
the President shall, after consulting with appropriate con-
gressional committees, eliminate a position within the 
United States Agency for International Development (un-
less otherwise authorized or required by law) that the 
President determines to be necessary to fully offset such 
costs and eliminate duplication. 
SEC. 6. MONITORING AND EVALUATION OF PROGRAMS. 
The President shall seek to ensure that programs car-
ried out under the strategy required under section 4 
shall— 
(1) apply rigorous monitoring and evaluation 
methodologies to determine if programs and activi-
ties provided under this subsection accomplish meas-
urable improvements in literacy, numeracy, or other 
basic skills development that prepare an individual 
to be an active, productive member of society and 
the workforce; 
(2) include methodological guidance in the im-
plementation plan and support systemic data collec-
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tion using internationally comparable indicators, 
norms, and methodologies, to the extent practicable 
and appropriate; 
(3) disaggregate all data collected and reported 
by age, gender, marital status, disability, and loca-
tion, to the extent practicable and appropriate; 
(4) include funding for both short- and long- 
term monitoring and evaluation to enable assess-
ment of the sustainability and scalability of assist-
ance programs; and 
(5) support the increased use and public avail-
ability of education data for improved decision mak-
ing, program effectiveness, and monitoring of global 
progress. 
SEC. 7. TRANSPARENCY AND REPORTING TO CONGRESS. 
(a) ANNUAL REPORT ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF 
STRATEGY.—Not later than each March 31 immediately 
following a fiscal year during which the strategy developed 
pursuant to section 4(a) was carried out, the President 
shall— Not later than 180 days after the end of each fiscal 
year during which the strategy developed pursuant to sec-
tion 4(a) is carried out, the President shall— 
(1) submit a report to the appropriate congres-
sional committees that describes the implementation 
of such strategy; and 
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(2) make the report described in paragraph (1) 
available to the public. 
(b) MATTERS TO BE INCLUDED.—The report re-
quired under subsection (a) shall include— 
(1) a description of the efforts made by relevant 
Executive branch agencies and officials to implement 
the strategy developed pursuant to section 4, with a 
particular focus on the activities carried out under 
the strategy; 
(2) a description of the extent to which each 
partner country selected to receive assistance for 
basic education meets the priority criteria specified 
in section 105(c) of the Foreign Assistance Act, as 
added by section 3; and 
(3) a description of the progress achieved over 
the reporting period toward meeting the goals, objec-
tives, benchmarks, and timeframes specified in the 
strategy developed pursuant to section 4 at the pro-
gram level, as developed pursuant to monitoring and 
evaluation specified in section 6, with particular em-
phasis on whether there are demonstrable student 
improvements in literacy, numeracy, or other basic 
skills development that prepare an individual to be 
an active, productive member of society and the 
workforce. 
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Calendar No. 116 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 601 
AN ACT 
To enhance the transparency and accelerate the im-
pact of assistance provided under the Foreign 
Assistance Act of 1961 to promote quality basic 
education in developing countries, to better en-
able such countries to achieve universal access to 
quality basic education and improved learning 
outcomes, to eliminate duplication and waste, 
and for other purposes. 
JUNE 5, 2017 
Reported with amendments 
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