information resources of financial institutions and 
small and medium enterprises in sub-Saharan Afri-
can countries. Such activities may include— 
‘‘(A) developing computer programs and 
networking capabilities to provide connectivity 
between domestic and international banking 
sectors; 
‘‘(B) increasing access by finance min-
istries and central banks to information man-
agement systems and high-speed Internet 
connectivity; and 
‘‘(C) promoting the development of Inter-
net service providers. 
‘‘(4) BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT IN RURAL AND 
PERI-URBAN AREAS.—Activities to promote the de-
velopment of small and medium enterprises in sub- 
Saharan African countries that are located in rural 
and peri-urban areas. Such activities may include— 
‘‘(A) carrying out short- and long-term 
training in entrepreneurship, such as the ‘Busi-
ness Opportunity Centers’ program of the 
United States Agency for International Devel-
opment in the Republic of Zimbabwe; 
‘‘(B) providing training in entrepreneur-
ship, including basic business management, ac-
counting, bookkeeping, marketing, risk manage-
ment, and computer skills; 
‘‘(C) providing assistance to meet inter-
national, particularly United States, quality 
control standards; 
‘‘(D) providing business services on a fee- 
for-service basis, such as telephone, fax, email, 
e-learning, and money transfer services, based 
on the cost recovery model of the ‘Business Op-
portunity Centers’ program in Zimbabwe; 
‘‘(E) carrying out capacity-building activi-
ties for microenterprise business associations 
and microfinance networks; and 
‘‘(F) providing training in internationally 
recognized labor rights and core labor stand-
ards. 
‘‘(5) SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT IN POST- 
CONFLICT
STATES.—Activities to promote small 
business development in post-conflict sub-Saharan 
African countries. Such activities may include— 
‘‘(A) providing rural agriculture entrepre-
neurship training to aid displaced persons, par-
ticularly youth, with the purpose of helping 
such persons return to rural areas and re-en-
gage in agricultural activities;
‘‘(B) adopting more productive and profit-
able production systems such as conservation 
farming technologies, biotechnologies, biosafety 
technologies, and increasing the marketability 
of the surplus production of such systems; 
‘‘(C) providing assistance to add commer-
cial value to agricultural goods and to sell such 
goods to local and regional markets; and 
‘‘(D) encouraging agricultural entrepre-
neurship and the formation of cooperatives and 
marketing associations and providing such asso-
ciations with organizational and technical as-
sistance. 
‘‘(6) YOUTH ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAMS.— 
Activities to establish youth entrepreneurship train-
ing programs in schools or through community part-
nerships with business and youth organizations in 
sub-Saharan African countries to promote economic 
skills, ethics, integrity, and healthy life skills among 
youth in such countries. Such activities may include 
providing assistance through United States and 
international youth organizations located in sub-Sa-
haran African countries and ministries of education, 
local schools, businesses, and youth groups to—
‘‘(A) teach basic concepts of business eco-
nomics and free enterprise and the relevance of 
education for such youth to improving the qual-
ity of their lives; 
‘‘(B) teach basic concepts of good govern-
ance, the rule of law, human rights, and citizen-
ship as they relate to national development; 
‘‘(C) assist youth to make decisions about 
their educational and professional future and 
develop communication skills that are vital to 
succeed in the domestic, regional, and inter-
national business world; 
‘‘(D) develop a specialized curriculum for 
youth in rural and peri-urban areas and utilize, 
whenever possible, business and community vol-
unteers to deliver such curriculum; and 
‘‘(E) organize student-led enterprises. 
‘‘(7) INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY
RIGHTS
PRO-
TECTION.—Activities to introduce and strengthen 
laws, regulations, and enforcement mechanisms to 
protect national and international intellectual prop-
erty rights and to protect the people and industries 
of sub-Saharan African countries against imported 
counterfeit consumer and other goods.
‘‘(8) ANTI-CORRUPTION
INITIATIVES.—Activi-
ties that combat corruption, improve transparency 
and accountability, and promote other forms of good 
governance and management in sub-Saharan African 
countries. Such activities may include— 
‘‘(A) providing technical assistance to gov-
ernments of sub-Saharan African countries that 
are implementing the United Nations Conven-
tion against Corruption, including assistance to 
combat anti-competitive, unethical, and corrupt 
activities, including protection against actions 
that may distort or inhibit transparency in mar-
ket mechanisms and impair the development of 
small and medium enterprises. 
‘‘(B) providing assistance to develop a 
legal framework for commercial transactions 
that fosters business practices that promote 
transparent, ethical, and competitive behavior 
in the economic sector, such as commercial 
codes that incorporate international standards 
and protection of national and international in-
tellectual property rights and core labor stand-
ards; and 
‘‘(C) providing training and technical as-
sistance relating to drafting of anti-corruption,
privatization, and competitive statutory and ad-
ministrative codes, and providing technical as-
sistance to ministries and agencies imple-
menting anti-corruption laws and regulations. 
‘‘(c) CONSIDERATION.—In making a determination to 
provide assistance to financial institutions referred to in 
subsection (b), the President should take into consider-
ation the extent to which a project establishes and imple-
ments a nondiscrimination in lending policy to prohibit 
discrimination based on ethnicity, sex, color, race, religion, 
physical disability, marital status, or age, and a policy 
against predatory lending practices. 
‘‘(d) ACCEPTANCE AND USE OF GIFTS, DEVISES, BE-
QUESTS, AND
GRANTS.—In accordance with section 
635(d) of this Act, the President may accept and use in 
furtherance of the purposes of this section, money, funds, 
property, and services of any kind made available by gift, 
devise, bequest, grant, or otherwise for such purposes. 
‘‘(e) REPORT.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than January 31 
of each year, the President shall transmit to the ap-
propriate congressional committees a report that 
contains a detailed description of the implementation 
of this section for the prior fiscal year.