by USAID’s Development Innovation Ventures program, innovation within United States foreign assistance can generate high social returns when it is centered on the creation of and reliance on rigorous evidence of impact on global development outcomes, a focus on cost-effectiveness, and attention to financially-sustainable proven solutions that may be scaled up. (5) USAID’s Center for Innovation and Impact serves as an important effort to incubate new proven solutions, put them into practice, and scale up effective approaches by drawing on non-traditional skill sets in innovation, market-based solutions and digital health. (6) USAID’s efforts to incorporate lessons learned into future programs should be open to both building on successful approaches and learning from failures. (7) Enabling uptake of evidence-based innovation across USAID’s operating units will enable USAID to scale up proven solutions that accelerate economic growth and produce better development outcomes, which can help support the growth of healthier, more stable societies and foster trade relationships that translate into jobs and economic growth in the United States. 3. Sense of Congress It is the sense of Congress that innovation is central to identifying solutions to global development challenges. 4. Chief Innovation Officer (a) In general There shall be established within USAID a Chief Innovation Officer who shall— (1) serve as the principal advisor on issues related to the prioritization and expanded use of innovation to improve the effectiveness and outcomes of the development and humanitarian goals of the United States, including related to policy, management, and procurement