---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 9652"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "9652"
heading: "Performance measures, evaluation, and learning"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/9652"
units:
  - "Chapter 103 — Better Utilization of Investments Leading to Development"
  - "Subchapter IV — Monitoring, Evaluation, and Reporting"
---

# §9652. Performance measures, evaluation, and learning

- (a) **In general—** The Corporation shall develop a performance measurement system to evaluate and monitor projects supported by the Corporation under subchapter II of this chapter and to guide future projects of the Corporation.
- (b) **Considerations—** In developing the performance measurement system required by [subsection (a)](#a), the Corporation shall—
  - (1) develop a development impact measurement system, to be known as the Corporation’s Impact Quotient, which shall—
    - (A) serve as a metrics-based measurement system to assess a project’s expected outcomes and development impact on a country, a region, and populations throughout the sourcing, origination, management, monitoring, and evaluation stages of a project’s lifecycle;
    - (B) enable the Corporation to assess development impact at both the project and portfolio level;
    - (C) provide guidance on when to take appropriate corrective measures to further development goals throughout a project’s lifecycle; and
    - (D) inform congressional notification requirements outlining the Corporation’s project development impacts;
  - (2) develop a mechanism for ensuring that [support](/usc/22/7432.md?p=12) provided by the Corporation under subchapter II of this chapter is in addition to private investment;
  - (3) develop standards for, and a method for ensuring, appropriate financial performance of the Corporation’s portfolio;
  - (4) develop standards for, and a method for evaluating and documenting the development impacts of the Corporation’s portfolio, including—
    - (A) measurement of the projected and ex post development impact of a project; and
    - (B) the information necessary to comply with [section 9653 of this title](/usc/22/9653.md);
  - (5) develop standards for, and a method for ensuring, appropriate monitoring of the Corporation’s compliance with environmental and social standards consistent with the guidance published by the Corporation following broad consultation with appropriate [stakeholders](/usc/22/2152j–4.md?p=3) to include civil society; and
  - (6) develop standards for, and a method for ensuring, appropriate monitoring of the Corporation’s portfolio, including standards for ensuring employees or agents of the Corporation identify and conduct in-person site visits of each high-risk loan, loan guarantee, and equity project, as necessary and appropriate, after the initial disbursement of funds.
- (c) **Required performance measures update for Congressional Strategic Advisory Group—** At any meeting of the Congressional Strategic Advisory Group, the Corporation shall be prepared discuss the standards developed in [subsection (b)](#b) for all ongoing projects.
- (d) **Public availability of certain information—** The Corporation shall make available to the public on a regular basis information about [support](/usc/22/7432.md?p=12) provided by the Corporation under subchapter II of this chapter and performance metrics about such [support](/usc/22/7432.md?p=12) on a country-by-country basis.
- (e) **Consultation—** In developing the performance measurement system required by [subsection (a)](#a), the Corporation shall consult with the Development Advisory Council established under [section 9613(i) of this title](/usc/22/9613.md?p=i) and other [stakeholders](/usc/22/2152j–4.md?p=3) and interested parties engaged in sustainable economic growth and development.
- (f) **Staffing for portfolio oversight and reporting—**
  - (1) **Requirement to maintain capacity—** The Corporation shall maintain an adequate number of full-time personnel with appropriate expertise to fulfill its obligations under this section and [section 9653 of this title](/usc/22/9653.md), including—
    - (A) monitoring and evaluating the financial performance of the Corporation’s portfolio;
    - (B) evaluating the development and strategic impact of investments throughout the program lifecycle;
    - (C) preparing required annual reporting on the Corporation’s portfolio of investments, including the information set forth in [section 9653(a)(6) of this title](/usc/22/9653.md?p=a-6); and
    - (D) monitoring for compliance with all applicable laws and ethics requirements.
  - (2) **Qualifications—** Personnel assigned to carry out the obligations described in [paragraph (1)](#f-1) shall possess demonstrable professional experience in relevant areas, such as development finance, financial analysis, investment portfolio management, monitoring and evaluation, impact measurement, or legal and ethics expertise.
  - (3) **Organizational structure—** The Corporation shall maintain such personnel within 1 or more dedicated units or offices, which shall—
    - (A) be functionally independent from investment origination teams;
    - (B) be managed by senior staff who report to the Chief Executive Officer or Deputy Chief Executive Officer; and
    - (C) be allocated resources sufficient to fulfill the Corporation’s obligations under this section and to [support](/usc/22/7432.md?p=12) transparency and accountability to Congress and to the public.
  - (4) **Insulation from reductions—** The Corporation may not reduce the staffing, funding, or organizational independence of the units or personnel responsible for fulfilling the obligations under this section unless—
    - (A) the Chief Executive Officer certifies in writing to the [appropriate congressional committees](/usc/22/9601.md?p=2) that such reductions are necessary due to operational exigency, statutory change, or budgetary shortfall; and
    - (B) the Corporation includes in its annual report a detailed explanation of the impact of any such changes on its capacity to analyze and report on portfolio performance.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 115–254, div. F, title IV, § 1442, Oct. 5, 2018, 132 Stat. 3504; Pub. L. 119–60, div. H, title LXXXVII, § 8754, Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 1964.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2025—Subsec. (b)(1). Pub. L. 119–60, § 8754(1)(A), added par. (1) and struck out former par. (1) which read as follows: “develop a successor for the development impact measurement system of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (as such system was in effect on the day before October 5, 2018);”.

Subsec. (b)(4). Pub. L. 119–60, § 8754(1)(C)(i), substituted “method for evaluating and documenting the development impacts” for “method for ensuring, appropriate development performance” in introductory provisions.

Subsec. (b)(5), (6). Pub. L. 119–60, § 8754(1)(B), (C)(ii), (D), added pars. (5) and (6).

Subsecs. (c) to (e). Pub. L. 119–60, § 8754(2), (3), added subsec. (c) and redesignated former subsecs. (c) and (d) as (d) and (e), respectively.

Subsec. (f). Pub. L. 119–60, § 8754(4), added subsec. (f).