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115TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 5480 

To improve programs and activities relating to women’s entrepreneurship 

and economic empowerment that are carried out by the United States 

Agency for International Development, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

APRIL 12, 2018 

Mr. ROYCE of California (for himself, Ms. FRANKEL of Florida, Mr. 

FITZPATRICK, Mr. ENGEL, Mrs. WAGNER, and Ms. KELLY of Illinois) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 

A BILL 

To improve programs and activities relating to women’s entrepreneurship and economic empowerment that are carried out by the United States Agency for International 

Development, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Women’s Entrepre5 neurship and Economic Empowerment Act of 2018’’. 

6 SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 

7 Congress finds the following: 


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1 (1) Because women make up the majority of 

2 the world’s poor and gender inequalities prevail in 

3 incomes, wages, access to finance, ownership of as4 sets, and control over the allocation of resources, 

5 women’s entrepreneurship and economic empower6 ment is important to achieve inclusive economic 

7 growth at all levels of society. Research shows that 

8 when women exert greater influence over household 

9 finances, economic outcomes for families improve, 

10 and childhood survival rates, food security, and edu11 cational attainment increase. Women also tend to 

12 place a greater emphasis on household savings which 

13 improves families’ financial resiliency. 

14 (2) A 2016 report by the McKinsey Global In15 stitute estimated that achieving global gender parity 

16 in economic activity could add as much as $28 tril17 lion to annual global gross domestic product (GDP) 

18 by 2025. 

19 (3) Lack of access to financial services that ad20 dress gender-specific constraints impedes women’s 

21 economic inclusion. More than one billion women 

22 around the world are currently left out of the formal 

23 financial system, which in turn causes many women 

24 to rely on informal means of saving and borrowing 

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1 sequences, this hampers the success of women entre2 preneurs, including those seeking to run or grow 

3 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The 

4 International Finance Corporation has estimated 

5 that 70 percent of women-owned SMEs in the for6 mal sector are unserved or underserved in terms of 

7 access to credit, amounting to a $285 billion credit 

8 gap. 

9 (4) Women’s economic empowerment is inex10 tricably linked to a myriad of other women’s human 

11 rights that are essential to their ability to thrive as 

12 economic actors across the lifecycle. This includes, 

13 but is not limited to, living lives free of violence and 

14 exploitation, achieving the highest possible standard 

15 of health and well-being, enjoying full legal and 

16 human rights such as access to registration, identi17 fication, and citizenship documents, benefitting from 

18 formal and informal education, and equal protection 

19 of and access to land and property rights, access to 

20 fundamental labor rights, policies to address dis21 proportionate care burdens, and business and man22 agement skills and leadership opportunities. 

23 (5) Discriminatory legal and regulatory systems 

24 and banking practices are hurdles to women’s access 

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1 duction facilities, technology, and human resources. 

2 Often, these barriers are connected to a woman’s 

3 marital status, which can determine whether she is 

4 able to inherit land or own property in her name. 

5 These constraints contribute to women frequently 

6 running smaller businesses, with fewer employees 

7 and lower asset values. 

8 (6) Savings groups primarily comprised of 

9 women are recognized as a vital entry point, espe10 cially for poor and very poor women, to formal fi11 nancial services and there is a high demand for such 

12 groups to protect and grow their savings with formal 

13 financial institutions. Evidence shows that, once 

14 linked to a bank, the average savings per member 

15 increases between 40 to 100 percent and the average 

16 profit per member doubles. Key to these outcomes is 

17 investing in financial literacy, business leadership 

18 training, and mentorship. 

19 (7) United States support for microenterprise 

20 and microfinance development programs, which seek 

21 to reduce poverty in low-income countries by giving 

22 small loans to small-scale entrepreneurs without col23 lateral, have been a useful mechanism to help fami24 lies weather economic shocks, but many microcredit 

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1 ity of microcredit borrowers are women who would 

2 like to move up the economic ladder but are held 

3 back by binding constraints that create a ‘‘missing 

4 middle’’—large numbers of microenterprises, a 

5 handful of large firms or conglomerates, and very 

6 few SMEs in between, which are critical to driving 

7 economic growth in developing countries. 

8 (8) According to the World Bank, SMEs create 

9 4 out of 5 new positions in emerging markets but 

10 about half of formal SMEs don’t have access to for11 mal credit. The financing gap is even larger when 

12 micro and informal enterprises are taken into ac13 count. Overall, approximately 70 percent of all 

14 micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) 

15 in emerging markets lack access to credit. 

16 SEC. 3. ACTIONS TO IMPROVE GENDER POLICIES OF THE 

17 UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTER18 NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT. 

19 (a) DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION POLICY.—It shall 

20 be the development cooperation policy of the United 

21 States— 

22 (1) to reduce gender disparities in access to, 

23 control over, and benefit from economic, social, polit24 ical, and cultural resources, wealth, opportunities, 

25 and services; 


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1 (2) to strive to eliminate gender-based violence 

2 and mitigate its harmful effects on individuals and 

3 communities through efforts to develop standards 

4 and capacity to reduce gender-based violence in the 

5 workplace and other places where women conduct 

6 work; 

7 (3) to support activities that secure private 

8 property rights and land tenure for women in devel9 oping countries, including legal frameworks to give 

10 women equal rights to own, register, use, profit 

11 from, and inherit land and property, legal literacy to 

12 exercise these rights, and capacity of law enforce13 ment and community leaders to enforce such rights; 

14 and 

15 (4) to increase the capability of women and 

16 girls to realize their rights, determine their life out17 comes, assume leadership roles, and influence deci18 sionmaking in households, communities, and soci19 eties. 

20 (b) ACTIONS.—In order to advance the policy de21 scribed in subsection (a), the Administrator of the United 

22 States Agency for International Development shall ensure 

23 that— 

24 (1) strategies, projects, and activities of the 

25 Agency are shaped by a gender analysis and, when 


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1 applicable, use standard indicators to provide one 

2 measure of success of such strategies, projects, and 

3 activities; and 

4 (2) gender equality and female empowerment is 

5 integrated throughout the Agency’s Program Cycle 

6 and related processes for purposes of strategic plan7 ning, project design and implementation, and moni8 toring and evaluation. 

9 (c) GENDER ANALYSIS DEFINED.—In this section, 

10 the term ‘‘gender analysis’’— 

11 (1) means a socio-economic analysis of available 

12 or gathered quantitative and qualitative information 

13 to identify, understand, and explain gaps between 

14 men and women which typically involves exam15 ining— 

16 (A) differences in the status of women and 

17 men and their differential access to and control 

18 over assets, resources, opportunities, and serv19 ices; 

20 (B) the influence of gender roles, struc21 tural barriers, and norms on the division of 

22 time between paid employment, unpaid work 

23 (including subsistence production and care for 

24 family members), and volunteer activities; 


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1 (C) the influence of gender roles, struc2 tural barriers, and norms on leadership roles 

3 and decisionmaking; constraints, opportunities, 

4 and entry points for narrowing gender gaps and 

5 empowering women; and 

6 (D) potential differential impacts of devel7 opment policies and programs on men and 

8 women, including unintended or negative con9 sequences; and 

10 (2) includes conclusions and recommendations 

11 to enable development policies and programs to nar12 row gender gaps and improve the lives of women and 

13 girls. 

14 SEC. 4. DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE FOR MICRO, SMALL 

15 AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES. 

16 (a) FINDINGS AND POLICY.—Section 251 of the For17 eign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2211) is amend18 ed— 

19 (1) in paragraph (1)— 

20 (A) by striking ‘‘microenterprise’’ and in21 serting ‘‘micro, small and medium-sized enter22 prise’’; 

23 (B) by striking ‘‘and in the development’’ 

24 and inserting ‘‘, in the development’’; and 


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1 (C) by adding at the end before the period 

2 the following: ‘‘, and in the economic empower3 ment of the poor, especially women’’; 

4 (2) in paragraph (2)— 

5 (A) by striking ‘‘microenterprise’’ and in6 serting ‘‘micro, small and medium-sized enter7 prise’’; and 

8 (B) by adding at the end before the period 

9 the following: ‘‘, particularly those enterprises 

10 owned, managed, and controlled by women’’; 

11 (3) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘microenter12 prises’’ and inserting ‘‘micro, small and medium13 sized enterprises’’; 

14 (4) in paragraph (4), by striking ‘‘microenter15 prise’’ and inserting ‘‘micro, small and medium-sized 

16 enterprise’’; 

17 (5) in paragraph (5)— 

18 (A) by striking ‘‘should continue’’ and in19 serting ‘‘should continue and be expanded’’; and 

20 (B) by striking ‘‘microenterprise and 

21 microfinance development assistance’’ and in22 serting ‘‘development assistance for micro, 

23 small and medium-sized enterprises’’; and 

24 (6) in paragraph (6)— 


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1 (A) by striking ‘‘have been successful’’ and 

2 inserting ‘‘have had some success’’; 

3 (B) by striking ‘‘microenterprise pro4 grams’’ and inserting ‘‘development assistance 

5 for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises’’; 

6 and 

7 (C) by striking ‘‘, such as countries in 

8 Latin America’’. 

9 (b) AUTHORIZATION; IMPLEMENTATION; TARGETED

10 ASSISTANCE.—Section 252 of the Foreign Assistance Act 

11 of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2211a) is amended as follows: 

12 (1) In subsection (a)— 

13 (A) in the matter preceding paragraph 

14 (1)— 

15 (i) by striking ‘‘credit, savings, and 

16 other services’’ and inserting ‘‘credit, in17 cluding the use of innovative credit scoring 

18 models, savings, financial technology, fi19 nancial literacy, insurance, property rights, 

20 and other services’’; and 

21 (ii) by striking ‘‘microfinance and mi22 croenterprise clients’’ and inserting ‘‘micro, 

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1 (B) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘micro2 finance and microenterprise clients’’ and insert3 ing ‘‘micro, small and medium-sized enterprise 

4 clients, particularly those clients owned, man5 aged, and controlled by women’’; 

6 (C) in paragraph (2)— 

7 (i) by striking ‘‘microenterprises’’ and 

8 inserting ‘‘micro, small and medium-sized 

9 enterprises’’; and 

10 (ii) by inserting ‘‘acquire United 

11 States goods and services,’’ after ‘‘United 

12 States markets,’’; 

13 (D) in paragraph (3)— 

14 (i) by striking ‘‘microfinance and mi15 croenterprise institutions’’ and inserting 

16 ‘‘financial intermediaries’’; 

17 (ii) by striking ‘‘microfinance and mi18 croenterprise clients’’ and inserting ‘‘micro, 

19 small and medium-sized enterprises’’; and 

20 (iii) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end; 

21 (E) in paragraph (4)— 

22 (i) by striking ‘‘microfinance and mi23 croenterprise clients and institutions’’ and 

24 inserting ‘‘micro, small and medium-sized 


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1 enterprises, financial intermediaries, and 

2 capital markets’’; and 

3 (ii) by striking ‘‘the poor and very 

4 poor.’’ and inserting ‘‘the poor and very 

5 poor, especially women;’’; and 

6 (F) by adding at the end the following: 

7 ‘‘(5) assistance for the purpose of promoting 

8 the economic empowerment of women, including 

9 through increased access to financial resources and 

10 improving property rights, inheritance rights, and 

11 other legal protections; and 

12 ‘‘(6) assistance for the purpose of scaling up 

13 evidence-based graduation approaches, which include 

14 targeting the very poor and households in ultra-pov15 erty, consumption support, promotion of savings, 

16 skills training, and asset transfers.’’. 

17 (2) In subsection (b)— 

18 (A) in paragraph (1) to read as follows: 

19 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—There is authorized to be 

20 established within the Agency an office to support 

21 the Agency’s efforts to broaden and deepen local fi22 nancial markets, expand access to appropriate finan23 cial products and services, and support the develop24 ment of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises. 

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1 possess technical expertise and ability to offer lead2 ership in the field of financial sector development.’’; 

3 (B) in paragraph (2)— 

4 (i) in subparagraph (B)— 

5 (I) by striking ‘‘USE OF CENTRAL

6 FUNDING MECHANISMS.—’’ and all 

7 that follows through ‘‘In order to en8 sure’’ and inserting ‘‘USE OF CEN9 TRAL FUNDING MECHANISMS.—In 

10 order to ensure’’; 

11 (II) by striking ‘‘the office shall’’ 

12 and all that follows through ‘‘and 

13 other practitioners’’ and inserting 

14 ‘‘the office shall provide coordination 

15 and support for field-implemented 

16 programs, including through targeted 

17 core support for micro, small and me18 dium-sized enterprises and local finan19 cial markets’’; and 

20 (III) by striking clause (ii); 

21 (ii) in subparagraph (C)— 

22 (I) by inserting ‘‘, particularly by 

23 protecting the use and funding of 

24 local organizations in countries in 


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1 which the Agency invests,’’ after ‘‘and 

2 sustainability’’; and 

3 (II) by inserting ‘‘, especially 

4 women’’ after ‘‘the poor and very 

5 poor’’; and 

6 (C) by striking paragraph (3). 

7 (3) In subsection (c)— 

8 (A) by striking ‘‘all microenterprise re9 sources’’ and inserting ‘‘all micro, small and 

10 medium-sized enterprise resources’’; and 

11 (B) by striking ‘‘clients who are’’ and all 

12 that follows and inserting ‘‘activities that reach 

13 the very poor, and 50 percent of all small and 

14 medium-sized enterprise resources shall be tar15 geted to activities that reach enterprises owned, 

16 managed, and controlled by women.’’. 

17 (c) MONITORING SYSTEM.—Section 253(b) of the 

18 Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2211b(b)) is 

19 amended— 

20 (1) in paragraph (1), by inserting ‘‘, including 

21 goals on a gender disaggregated basis, such as im22 provements in employment, access to financial serv23 ices, enterprise development, earnings and control 

24 over income, and property and land rights,’’ after 

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1 (2) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘include per2 formance indicators’’ and all that follows through 

3 ‘‘the achievement’’ and inserting ‘‘incorporate Agen4 cy planning and reporting processes and indicators 

5 to measure or assess the achievement’’; and 

6 (3) by striking paragraph (4). 

7 (d) POVERTY MEASUREMENT METHODS.—Section 

8 254 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 

9 2211c) is amended to read as follows: 

10 ‘‘SEC. 254. POVERTY MEASUREMENT METHODS. 

11 ‘‘The Administrator of the Agency, in consultation 

12 with financial intermediaries and other appropriate orga13 nizations, should have in place at least one method for 

14 implementing partners to use to assess poverty levels of 

15 their current incoming or prospective clients.’’. 

16 (e) ADDITIONAL AUTHORITIES.—Section 255 of the 

17 Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2211d) is 

18 amended— 

19 (1) by striking ‘‘assistance for microenterprise 

20 development assistance’’ and inserting ‘‘development 

21 assistance for micro, small and medium-sized enter22 prises’’; and 

23 (2) by striking ‘‘and, to the extent applicable’’ 

24 and all that follows and inserting a period. 


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1 (f) MICROENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT CREDITS.— 

2 Section 256 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 

3 U.S.C. 2212) is amended— 

4 (1) in the section heading, by striking ‘‘MICRO5 ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT CREDITS’’ and in6 serting ‘‘DEVELOPMENT CREDITS FOR MICRO, 

7 SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES’’; 

8 (2) in subsection (a)— 

9 (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘micro10 and small enterprises’’ and inserting ‘‘micro, 

11 small and medium-sized enterprises’’; and 

12 (B) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘micro13 enterprises’’ and inserting ‘‘micro, small and 

14 medium-sized enterprises’’; 

15 (3) in subsection (b), in the matter preceding 

16 paragraph (1), by inserting ‘‘and other financial 

17 services’’ after ‘‘credit’’; 

18 (4) by striking ‘‘microenterprise households’’ 

19 each place it appears and inserting ‘‘micro, small 

20 and medium-sized enterprises and households’’; and 

21 (5) by striking ‘‘microfinance institutions’’ each 

22 place it appears and inserting ‘‘financial inter23 mediaries’’. 


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1 (g) UNITED STATES MICROFINANCE LOAN FACIL2 ITY.—Section 257 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 

3 (22 U.S.C. 2213) is amended— 

4 (1) in the section heading, by striking 

5 ‘‘UNITED STATES MICROFINANCE LOAN FACIL6 ITY’’ and inserting ‘‘UNITED STATES MICRO, 

7 SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISE LOAN

8 FACILITY’’; 

9 (2) in subsection (a)— 

10 (A) by striking ‘‘United States Micro11 finance Loan Facility’’ and inserting ‘‘United 

12 States Micro, Small and Medium-Sized Enter13 prise Loan Facility’’; and 

14 (B) by striking ‘‘United States-supported 

15 microfinance institutions’’ and inserting 

16 ‘‘United States-supported financial inter17 mediaries’’; 

18 (3) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘United 

19 States-supported microfinance institutions’’ each 

20 place it appears and inserting ‘‘United States-sup21 ported financial intermediaries’’; 

22 (4) by striking ‘‘microfinance institutions’’ each 

23 place it appears and inserting ‘‘financial inter24 mediaries’’. 


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1 (h) CONTENTS OF REPORT.—Subsection (b) of sec2 tion 258 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 

3 2214) is amended to read as follows: 

4 ‘‘(b) CONTENTS.—To the extent practicable, the re5 port should contain the following: 

6 ‘‘(1) Information about assistance provided 

7 under section 252, including— 

8 ‘‘(A) the amount of each grant or other 

9 form of assistance; 

10 ‘‘(B) the name of each intermediary and 

11 implementing institution receiving assistance; 

12 ‘‘(C) the name of each country receiving 

13 assistance; and 

14 ‘‘(D) the methodology used to ensure com15 pliance with the targeted assistance require16 ments in subsection (c) of such section. 

17 ‘‘(2) The percentage of assistance provided 

18 under section 252 disaggregated by income level, in19 cluding for the very poor, and gender. 

20 ‘‘(3) The estimated number of individuals that 

21 received assistance provided under section 252 

22 disaggregated by income level, including for the very 

23 poor, and gender, and by type of assistance, includ24 ing loans, training, and business development serv25 ices. 


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1 ‘‘(4) The results of the monitoring system re2 quired under section 253. 

3 ‘‘(5) Information about any method in place to 

4 assess poverty levels under section 254.’’. 

5 (i) DEFINITIONS.—Section 259 of the Foreign As6 sistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2214a) is amended— 

7 (1) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘Committee 

8 on International Relations’’ and inserting ‘‘Com9 mittee on Foreign Affairs’’; 

10 (2) in paragraph (4), by striking ‘‘microenter11 prises’’ and inserting ‘‘micro, small and medium12 sized enterprises’’; 

13 (3) in paragraph (6)— 

14 (A) in subparagraph (E), by striking ‘‘mi15 croenterprise institution’’ and inserting ‘‘micro, 

16 small and medium-sized enterprise institution’’; 

17 and 

18 (B) in subparagraph (F), by striking ‘‘mi19 croenterprise institution’’ and inserting ‘‘finan20 cial intermediary’’; 

21 (4) in paragraph (7) to read as follows: 

22 ‘‘(7) MICRO, SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED EN23 TERPRISE INSTITUTION.—The term ‘micro, small 

24 and medium-sized enterprise institution’ means an 

25 entity that provides services, including finance, 


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1 training, or business development services, for micro, 

2 small and medium-sized enterprises in foreign coun3 tries.’’; 

4 (5) in paragraph (8) to read as follows: 

5 ‘‘(8) FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARY.—The term ‘fi6 nancial intermediary’ means the entity that acts as 

7 the intermediary between parties in a financial 

8 transaction, such as a bank, credit union, investment 

9 fund, a village savings and loan group, or an institu10 tion that provides financial services to a micro, small 

11 or medium-sized enterprise.’’; 

12 (6) by striking paragraph (9); 

13 (7) by redesignating paragraphs (10) through 

14 (14) as paragraphs (9) through (13), respectively; 

15 (8) in paragraph (9) (as redesignated), by strik16 ing ‘‘of microenterprise development’’; 

17 (9) in paragraph (10) to read as follows: 

18 ‘‘(10) PRACTITIONER INSTITUTION.—The term 

19 ‘practitioner institution’ means a not-for-profit enti20 ty, financial intermediary, telecommunications firm 

21 with a mobile money platform, a village and savings 

22 loan group, or any other entity that provides services 

23 authorized under section 252 that benefits micro, 

24 small and medium-sized enterprise clients.’’; 

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1 (A) in the heading, by striking ‘‘UNITED

2 STATES-SUPPORTED MICROFINANCE INSTITU3 TION’’ and inserting ‘‘UNITED STATES-SUP4 PORTED FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARY’’; and 

5 (B) by striking ‘‘United States-supported 

6 microfinance institution’’ and inserting ‘‘United 

7 States-supported financial intermediary’’; 

8 (11) in subparagraph (B) of paragraph (13) (as 

9 redesignated) to read as follows: 

10 ‘‘(B) living below the International Poverty 

11 Line, as defined by the International Bank for 

12 Reconstruction and Development and the Inter13 national Development Association (collectively 

14 referred to as the ‘World Bank’).’’. 

15 (j) TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.— 

16 Title VI of chapter 2 of part I of the Foreign Assistance 

17 Act of 1961 is amended as follows: 

18 (1) In the title heading, by striking ‘‘MICRO19 ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE’’ 

20 and inserting ‘‘DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE 

21 FOR MICRO, SMALL AND MEDIUM–SIZED 

22 ENTERPRISES’’. 

23 (2) In the heading for subtitle C, by striking 

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1 and inserting ‘‘UNITED STATES MICRO, SMALL AND

2 MEDIUM-SIZED MICROFINANCE LOAN FACILITY’’. 

3 SEC. 5. REPORT AND BRIEFING BY UNITED STATES AGEN4 CY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT. 

5 (a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than one year after the 

6 date of the enactment of this Act, the Administrator of 

7 the United States Agency for International Development 

8 shall provide a briefing and submit to the Committee on 

9 Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and the 

10 Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate a report 

11 on the implementation of this Act and the amendments 

12 made by this Act, including actions to improve the gender 

13 policies of the United States Agency for International De14 velopment pursuant to section 3. 

15 (b) PUBLIC AVAILABILITY.—The report required 

16 under paragraph (1) shall be posted and made available 

17 on a text-based, searchable, and publicly available internet 

18 website. 

19 SEC. 6. REPORT BY COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE 

20 UNITED STATES. 

21 (a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than two years after the 

22 date of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General 

23 of the United States shall submit to the Committee on 

24 Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and the 

25 Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate a report 


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1 on development assistance for micro, small and medium2 sized enterprises administered by the United States Agen3 cy for International Development. 

4 (b) MATTERS TO BE INCLUDED.—The report re5 quired under subsection (a) shall include an assessment 

6 of the following: 

7 (1) What is known about the impact of such de8 velopment assistance on the economies of developing 

9 countries. 

10 (2) The extent to which such development as11 sistance is targeting women and the very poor, in12 cluding what is known about how such development 

13 assistance benefits women. 

14 (3) The extent to which the United States 

15 Agency for International Development has developed 

16 a methodology used to ensure compliance with the 

17 targeted assistance requirement in section 252(c) of 

18 the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended by 

19 section 4 of this Act. 

20 (4) The monitoring system requirements in sec21 tion 253(b) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, 

22 as amended by section 4 of this Act, including the 

23 quality of such monitoring system. 

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