Maternal and child health strategy and report

(a) Strategy The relevant foreign assistance agency shall establish and publish a 5-year Maternal and Child Health strategy with specific targets for increasing coverage levels for priority interventions and priority countries. The strategy should prioritize investments in the delivery of interventions with the greatest cost-effectiveness and measurable outcome of lives saved and disability averted. (b) Report Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter for 5 years, the relevant foreign assistance agency shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report that describes progress made towards scaling up Maternal and Child Health interventions. The report shall include the following: (1) Program funding allocations and obligations disaggregated by country and by program area intervention on an annual basis. (2) Baseline data for the 2 fiscal years preceding the date of enactment, including funding levels, performance indicators, and programmatic outcomes. (3) A plan for how priority interventions will be delivered and implemented, ensuring interventions are reaching mothers and children. (4) A standard set of performance and outcome indicators for maternal and child health programs. (5) A common set budget tags or codes, consistent across United States agencies and programs, to track funding allocations and obligations by country, year, and intervention area.