Division D - Miscellaneous Provisions

22 USC 2214 - Report

(a) In general 
Not later than June 30, 2006, and each June 30 thereafter, the Administrator of the Agency, acting through the Director of the office, shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report that contains a detailed description of the implementation of this subpart for the previous fiscal year.
(b) Contents 
The report shall contain the following:
(1) The number of grants, cooperative agreements, contracts, contributions, or other form of assistance provided under section 2211a of this title, with a listing of
(A) the amount of each grant, cooperative agreement, contract, contribution, or other form of assistance;
(B) the name of each recipient and each developing country with respect to which projects or activities under the grant, cooperative agreement, contract, contribution, or other form of assistance were carried out; and
(C) a listing of the number of countries receiving assistance authorized by section 2211a of this title.
(2) The results of the monitoring system required under section 2211b of this title.
(3) The process of developing and applying poverty assessment procedures required under section 2211c of this title.
(4) The percentage of assistance furnished under section 2211a of this title that was allocated to the very poor based on the data collected using the certified methods required by section 2211c of this title.
(5) The estimated number of the very poor reached with assistance provided under section 2211a of this title.
(6) The amount of assistance provided under section 2211a of this title through central mechanisms.
(7) The name of each country that receives assistance under section 2212 of this title and the amount of such assistance.
(8) Information on the efforts of the Agency to ensure that recipients of United States microenterprise and microfinance development assistance work closely with nongovernmental organizations and foreign governments to identify and assist victims or potential victims of severe forms of trafficking in persons and women who are victims of or susceptible to other forms of exploitation and violence.
(9) Any additional information relating to the provision of assistance authorized by this subpart, including the use of the poverty measurement tools required by section 2211c of this title, or additional information on assistance provided by the United States to support microenterprise development under this subpart or any other provision of law.
(10) An estimate of the percentage of beneficiaries of assistance under this subpart in countries where a strong relationship between poverty and race or ethnicity has been demonstrated.
(11) The level of funding provided through contracts, the level of funding provided through grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements that is estimated to be subgranted or subcontracted, as the case may be, to direct service providers, and an analysis of the comparative cost-effectiveness and sustainability of projects carried out under these mechanisms.
(c) Availability to public 
The report required by this section shall be made available to the public on the Internet website of the Agency.

22 USC 2214a - Definitions

In this subpart:
(1) Administrator 
The term Administrator means the Administrator of the Agency.
(2) Agency 
The term Agency means the United States Agency for International Development.
(3) Appropriate congressional committees 
The term appropriate congressional committees means the Committee on International Relations of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate.
(4) Business development services 
The term business development services means support for the growth of microenterprises through training, technical assistance, marketing assistance, improved production technologies, and other related services.
(5) Director 
The term Director means the Director of the office.
(6) Implementing partner organization 
The term implementing partner organization means an entity eligible to receive assistance under this subpart which is
(A) a United States or an indigenous private voluntary organization;
(B) a United States or an indigenous credit union;
(C) a United States or an indigenous cooperative organization;
(D) an indigenous governmental or nongovernmental organization;
(E) a microenterprise institution;
(F) a microfinance institution; or
(G) a practitioner institution.
(7) Microenterprise institution 
The term microenterprise institution means a not-for-profit entity that provides services, including microfinance, training, or business development services, for microenterprise clients in foreign countries.
(8) Microfinance institution 
The term microfinance institution means a not-for-profit entity or a regulated financial intermediary that directly provides, or works to expand, the availability of credit, savings, and other financial services to microfinance and microenterprise clients in foreign countries.
(9) Microfinance network 
The term microfinance network means an affiliated group of practitioner institutions that provides services to its members, including financing, technical assistance, and accreditation, for the purpose of promoting the financial sustainability and societal impact of microenterprise assistance.
(10) Office 
The term office means the office of microenterprise development established under section 2211a (b)(1) of this title.
(11) Practitioner institution 
The term practitioner institution means a not-for-profit entity or a regulated financial intermediary, including a microfinance network, that provides services, including microfinance, training, or business development services, for microfinance and microenterprise clients, or provides assistance to microenterprise institutions in foreign countries.
(12) Private voluntary organization 
The term private voluntary organization means a not-for-profit entity that
(A) engages in and supports activities of an economic or social development or humanitarian nature for citizens in foreign countries; and
(B) is incorporated as such under the laws of the United States, including any of its states, territories or the District of Columbia, or of a foreign country.
(13) United States-supported microfinance institution 
The term United States-supported microfinance institution means a financial intermediary that has received funds made available under subchapter I of this chapter for fiscal year 1980 or any subsequent fiscal year.
(14) Very poor 
The term very poor means those individuals
(A) living in the bottom 50 percent below the poverty line established by the national government of the country in which those individuals live; or
(B) living on less than the equivalent of $1 per day (as calculated using the purchasing power parity (PPP) exchange rate method).