; (2) discusses ongoing and planned reforms to formal and informal incentives of USAID operating units and staff to mainstream and document their use of evidence and cost-effectiveness in strategic and programming decisions, and how these reforms will encourage the adoption and scaling up of proven solutions across USAID; (3) outlines efforts to integrate innovation objectives, including by using resources of USAID operating units to scale up proven solutions, the use of grants, contracts, advanced market commitments, and prize awards described in section 5 into USAID acquisition and assistance mechanisms and into country and regional strategies; (4) provides budgetary recommendations for scaling up proven solutions in future fiscal years; (5) outlines external efforts to improve partnership and collaboration with relevant businesses, nongovernmental organizations, science and research organizations, United States Government organizations that pursue science, technology, and research, universities engaged with innovation applicable to the core work and mandate of USAID, partner governments, and multilateral institutions; (6) identifies USAID’s approach to managing the goals of expanded innovation with ensuring rigorous oversight of Federal funds and plans to conduct monitoring and evaluation of all activities conducted pursuant to this Act; (7) outlines, in coordination with the Chief Executive Officer of the United States International Development Finance Corporation, a joint investment plan between USAID and the United States International Development Finance Corporation to exercise the authorities described in sections 5, 6, and 7; (8) outlines steps the Administrator will take to evaluate investments made by the United States International Development Finance Corporation and prioritize future funding for scaling up proven solutions from the United States International Development Finance Corporation