22 U.S.C. § 9307 (FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE)
§ 9307. Reports
(a) Global Food Security Strategy implementation reports
During each of the first 7 years after the date of the submission of the strategy required under section 9304(c) of this title, the President shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees reports that describe the status of the implementation of the Global Food Security Strategy at the end of the reporting period, which shall—
(1) contain a summary of the Global Food Security Strategy as an appendix;
(2) identify any substantial changes made in the Global Food Security Strategy during the preceding calendar year;
(3) describe the progress made in implementing the Global Food Security Strategy;
(4) identify the indicators used to establish benchmarks and measure results over time, as well as the mechanisms for reporting such results in an open and transparent manner;
(5) describe related strategies and benchmarks for graduating target countries and communities from assistance provided under the Global Food Security Strategy over time, including by building resilience, reducing risk, and enhancing the sustainability of outcomes from United States investments in agriculture and nutrition security;
(6) indicate how findings from monitoring and evaluation were incorporated into program design and budget decisions;
(7) contain a transparent, open, and detailed accounting of spending by relevant Federal departments and agencies to implement the Global Food Security Strategy, including, for each Federal department and agency, the statutory source of spending, amounts spent, implementing partners and targeted beneficiaries, and activities supported to the extent practicable and appropriate;
(8) describe how the Global Food Security Strategy leverages other United States food security and development assistance programs on the continuum from emergency food aid through sustainable, agriculture-led economic growth and eventual self-sufficiency;
(9) describe the contributions of the Global Food Security Strategy to, and assess the impact of, broader international food and nutrition security assistance programs, including progress in the promotion of land tenure rights, creating economic opportunities for women and small-scale producers, and stimulating agriculture-led economic growth in target countries and communities;
(10) assess efforts to coordinate United States international food security and nutrition programs, activities, and initiatives with key stakeholders;
(11) assess United States Government-facilitated private investment in related sectors and the impact of private sector investment in target countries and communities;
(12) identify any United States legal or regulatory impediments that could obstruct the effective implementation of the programming referred to in paragraphs (8) and (9);
(13) contain a clear gender analysis of programming, to inform project-level activities, that includes established disaggregated gender indicators to better analyze outcomes for food productivity, income growth, control of assets, equity in access to inputs, jobs and markets, and nutrition; and
(14) incorporate a plan for regularly reviewing and updating strategies, partnerships, and programs and sharing lessons learned with a wide range of stakeholders in an open, transparent manner.
(b) Global food security crosscut report
Not later than 120 days after the President submits the budget to Congress under section 1105(a) of title 31, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report including—
(1) an interagency budget crosscut report that—
(A) displays the budget proposed, including any planned interagency or intra-agency transfer, for each of the principal Federal agencies that carries out global food security activities in the upcoming fiscal year, separately reporting the amount of planned funding to be provided under existing laws pertaining to the global food security strategy to the extent available; and
(B) to the extent available, identifies all assistance and research expenditures at the account level in each of the five prior fiscal years by the Federal Government and United States multilateral commitments using Federal funds for global food security strategy activities;
(2) to the extent available, a detailed accounting of all assistance funding received and obligated by the principal Federal agencies identified in the report and United States multilateral commitments using Federal funds, for global food security activities during the current fiscal year; and
(3) a breakout of the proposed budget for the current and budget years by agency, categorizing expenditures by type of funding, including research, resiliency, and other food security activities to the extent that such information is available.
(c) Public availability of information
The information referred to in subsections (a) and (b) shall be made available on the public website of the United States Agency for International Development in an open, machine readable format, in a timely manner.
(Pub. L. 114–195, § 8, July 20, 2016, 130 Stat. 682; Pub. L. 115–266, § 3, Oct. 11, 2018, 132 Stat. 3755.)
heading: Editorial Notes
heading: Amendments
text: 2018—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 115–266 substituted, in introductory provisions, “During each of the first 7 years” for “Not later than 1 year and 2 years” and “at the end of the reporting period” for “for 2017 and 2018”.
heading: Executive Documents
heading: Delegation of Functions
text: Functions of President under subsec. (a) of this section delegated to the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development by Memorandum of President of the United States, Sept. 30, 2016, 81 F.R. 76483, set out as a note under section 9304 of this title.