§2507e Volunteer Feedback and Peace Corps Review

Summary

Require the President to set goals, measurements, and review plans for all Peace Corps programs within one year after November 21, 2011. The President must also create performance plans with clear standards for Peace Corps representatives, check those plans at least once a year, and take into account volunteer survey results when judging staff. This does not limit the President’s ability to remove a representative. Require yearly confidential volunteer surveys through September 30, 2023 about program effectiveness, staff, and volunteer safety. The survey results must be given in summary form (no names) to the Senate Foreign Relations and Appropriations Committees and the House Foreign Affairs and Appropriations Committees. The Peace Corps must post an easy-to-find, easy-to-read report online showing volunteer satisfaction and early termination rates by country. The Inspector General must send several reports to those committees on volunteer complaints, confidentiality breaches, sexual-assault training effectiveness (at 2 and 5 years after November 21, 2011), hiring and firing of representatives (within 2 years), and must alert the Peace Corps Director about audit findings overseas. Finally, at least every 3 years the President must review how resources are spread across countries, looking at commitment, volunteer safety, need, costs, management, and fit with Peace Corps priorities, and brief Congress on request.