; (B) to provide for public accountability; and (C) to serve as the basis for a democratic social contract between the people and their government, and as a basis for graduation from assistance; (2) United States Government policies and decisions should be guided by clear benchmarks for the evaluation of partner country commitment to funding development priorities, including the investing in people metric of the Millennium Challenge Corporation; (3) United States Government programs should be guided by a unified strategy, ambitious targets, and a robust monitoring, evaluation, and public accountability plan; (4) United States development assistance should aim to help build the capacity of partner countries to raise and commit partner country resources toward development goals, including— (A) the capacity to increase revenues; (B) transparent budgeting and expenditures; (C) policies and laws that increase domestic investment; and (D) the ability to address the illicit flows of capital from domestic and international sources; (5) the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, reached at the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, and the emphasis of the Addis Ababa Action Agenda on economic growth and the commitment of greater domestic resources towards development goals, serves as a basis for concrete actions by donors and partner countries to achieve greater accountability and to foster broad-based economic growth and the establishment of prosperous, middle class-based societies; (6) domestic resource commitments and domestic resource mobilization for development purposes provide a greater chance for sustainability and an alignment of incentives among stakeholders, including donors, partner countries, citizens, and the private sector that drives economic growth