H. R. 1409—5
‘‘(1) to support families and communities to mobilize their 
own resources through the establishment of community-based 
organizations to provide basic care for orphans and other 
vulnerable children; 
‘‘(2) for school food programs, including the purchase of 
local or regional foodstuffs where appropriate; 
‘‘(3) to increase primary school enrollment through the 
elimination of school fees, where appropriate, or other barriers 
to education while ensuring that adequate resources exist for 
teacher training and infrastructure; 
‘‘(4) to provide employment training and related services 
for orphans and other vulnerable children who are of legal 
working age; 
‘‘(5) to protect and promote the inheritance rights of 
orphans, other vulnerable children, and widows; 
‘‘(6) to provide culturally appropriate psychosocial support 
to orphans and other vulnerable children; and 
‘‘(7) to treat orphans and other vulnerable children with 
HIV/AIDS through the provision of pharmaceuticals, the 
recruitment and training of individuals to provide pediatric 
treatment, and the purchase of pediatric-specific technologies. 
‘‘(d) MONITORING AND EVALUATION.—
‘‘(1) 
ESTABLISHMENT.—To 
maximize 
the 
sustainable 
development impact of assistance authorized under this section, 
and pursuant to the strategy required in section 4 of the Assist-
ance for Orphans and Other Vulnerable Children in Developing 
Countries Act of 2005, the President shall establish a moni-
toring and evaluation system to measure the effectiveness of 
United States assistance to orphans and other vulnerable chil-
dren. 
‘‘(2) REQUIREMENTS.—The monitoring and evaluation 
system shall—
‘‘(A) establish performance goals for the assistance and 
expresses such goals in an objective and quantifiable form, 
to the extent feasible; 
‘‘(B) establish performance indicators to be used in 
measuring or assessing the achievement of the performance 
goals described in subparagraph (A); and 
‘‘(C) provide a basis for recommendations for adjust-
ments to the assistance to enhance the impact of assistance. 
‘‘(e) SPECIAL
ADVISOR
FOR
ASSISTANCE
TO
ORPHANS
AND 
VULNERABLE CHILDREN.—
‘‘(1) APPOINTMENT.—
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of State, in consulta-
tion with the Administrator of the United States Agency 
for International Development, shall appoint a Special 
Advisor for Assistance to Orphans and Vulnerable Chil-
dren. 
‘‘(B) DELEGATION.—At the discretion of the Secretary 
of State, the authority to appoint a Special Advisor under 
subparagraph (A) may be delegated by the Secretary of 
State to the Administrator of the United States Agency 
for International Development. 
‘‘(2) DUTIES.—The duties of the Special Advisor for Assist-
ance to Orphans and Vulnerable Children shall include the 
following:
H. R. 1409—6
‘‘(A) Coordinate assistance to orphans and other vulner-
able children among the various offices, bureaus, and field 
missions within the United States Agency for International 
Development. 
‘‘(B) Advise the various offices, bureaus, and field mis-
sions within the United States Agency for International 
Development to ensure that programs approved for assist-
ance under this section are consistent with best practices, 
meet the requirements of this Act, and conform to the 
strategy outlined in section 4 of the Assistance for Orphans 
and Other Vulnerable Children in Developing Countries 
Act of 2005. 
‘‘(C) Advise the various offices, bureaus, and field mis-
sions within the United States Agency for International 
Development in developing any component of their annual 
plan, as it relates to assistance for orphans or other vulner-
able children in developing countries, to ensure that each 
program, project, or activity relating to such assistance 
is consistent with best practices, meets the requirements 
of this Act, and conforms to the strategy outlined in section 
4 of the Assistance for Orphans and Other Vulnerable 
Children in Developing Countries Act of 2005. 
‘‘(D) Coordinate all United States assistance to orphans 
and other vulnerable children among United States depart-
ments and agencies, including the provision of assistance 
relating to HIV/AIDS authorized under the United States 
Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria 
Act of 2003 (Public Law 108–25), and the amendments 
made by such Act (including section 102 of such Act, and 
the amendments made by such section, relating to the 
coordination of HIV/AIDS programs). 
‘‘(E) Establish priorities that promote the delivery of 
assistance to the most vulnerable populations of orphans 
and children, particularly in those countries with a high 
rate of HIV infection among women. 
‘‘(F) Disseminate a collection of best practices to field 
missions of the United States Agency for International 
Development to guide the development and implementation 
of programs to assist orphans and vulnerable children. 
‘‘(G) Administer the monitoring and evaluation system 
established in subsection (d). 
‘‘(H) Prepare the annual report required by section 
5 of the Assistance for Orphans and Other Vulnerable 
Children in Developing Countries Act of 2005. 
‘‘(f) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—There is authorized to be appropriated 
to the President to carry out this section such sums as may 
be necessary for each of the fiscal years 2006 and 2007. 
‘‘(2) AVAILABILITY
OF
FUNDS.—Amounts made available 
under paragraph (1) are authorized to remain available until 
expended.’’. 
SEC. 4. STRATEGY OF THE UNITED STATES. 
(a) REQUIREMENT
FOR STRATEGY.—Not later than 180 days 
after the date of enactment of this Act, the President shall develop, 
and transmit to the appropriate congressional committees, a
H. R. 1409—7
strategy for coordinating, implementing, and monitoring assistance 
programs for orphans and vulnerable children. 
(b) CONSULTATION.—The strategy described in subsection (a) 
should be developed in consultation with the Special Advisor for 
Assistance to Orphans and Vulnerable Children (appointed pursu-
ant to section 135(e)(1) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (as 
added by section 3 of this Act)) and with employees of the field 
missions of the United States Agency for International Development 
to ensure that the strategy—
(1) will not impede the efficiency of implementing assist-
ance programs for orphans and vulnerable children; and 
(2) addresses the specific needs of indigenous populations. 
(c) CONTENT.—The strategy required by subsection (a) shall 
include—
(1) the identity of each agency or department of the Federal 
Government that is providing assistance for orphans and 
vulnerable children in foreign countries; 
(2) a description of the efforts of the head of each such 
agency or department to coordinate the provision of such assist-
ance with other agencies or departments of the Federal Govern-
ment or nongovernmental entities; 
(3) a description of a coordinated strategy, including 
coordination with other bilateral and multilateral donors, to 
provide the assistance authorized in section 135 of the Foreign 
Assistance Act of 1961, as added by section 3 of this Act; 
(4) an analysis of additional coordination mechanisms or 
procedures that could be implemented to carry out the purposes 
of such section; 
(5) a description of a monitoring system that establishes 
performance goals for the provision of such assistance and 
expresses such goals in an objective and quantifiable form, 
to the extent feasible; and 
(6) a description of performance indicators to be used in 
measuring or assessing the achievement of the performance 
goals described in paragraph (5). 
SEC. 5. ANNUAL REPORT. 
(a) REPORT.—Not later than one year after the date on which 
the President transmits to the appropriate congressional committees 
the strategy required by section 4(a), and annually thereafter, the 
President shall transmit to the appropriate congressional commit-
tees a report on the implementation of this Act and the amendments 
made by this Act. 
(b) CONTENTS.—The report shall contain the following informa-
tion for grants, cooperative agreements, contracts, contributions, 
and other forms of assistance awarded or entered into under section 
135 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (as added by section 
3 of this Act): 
(1) The amount of funding, the name of recipient organiza-
tions, the location of programs and activities, the status of 
progress of programs and activities, and the estimated number 
of orphans and other vulnerable children who received direct 
or indirect assistance under the programs and activities. 
(2) The results of the monitoring and evaluation system 
with respect to assistance for orphans and other vulnerable 
children.
H. R. 1409—8
(3) The percentage of assistance provided in support of 
orphans or other vulnerable children affected by HIV/AIDS. 
(4) Any other appropriate information relating to the needs 
of orphans and other vulnerable children in developing coun-
tries that could be addressed through the provision of assistance 
authorized in section 135 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 
1961, as added by section 3 of this Act, or under any other 
provision of law. 
SEC. 6. APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES DEFINED. 
In this Act, the term ‘‘appropriate congressional committees’’ 
means the Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on 
Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on Appropria-
tions and the Committee on International Relations of the House 
of Representatives.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.