22 U.S.C. § 9307 — Reports

Page 2224 TITLE 22—FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE § 9306 States Agency for International Development, respectively. Amounts authorized to appro- priated under this subsection should be prioritized to carry out programs and activities in target countries. (c) Monitoring and evaluation The President shall seek to ensure that assist- ance to implement the Global Food Security Strategy is provided under established param- eters for a rigorous accountability system to monitor and evaluate progress and impact of the strategy, including by reporting to the appro- priate congressional committees and the public on an annual basis. (Pub. L. 114–195, § 6, July 20, 2016, 130 Stat. 680; Pub. L. 115–266, § 2(a), Oct. 11, 2018, 132 Stat. 3755; Pub. L. 117–263, div. E, title LV, § 5588(f), Dec. 23, 2022, 136 Stat. 3378.) Editorial Notes REFERENCES IN TEXT The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, referred to in sub- sec. (a), is Pub. L. 87–195, Sept. 4, 1961, 75 Stat. 424. Title XII of chapter 2 of part I of the Act is classified gen- erally to subpart XII (§ 2220a et seq.) of part II of sub- chapter I of chapter 32 of this title. Chapter 4 of part II of the Act is classified generally to part IV (§ 2346 et seq.) of subchapter II of chapter 32 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 2151 of this title and Tables. AMENDMENTS 2022—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 117–263 substituted ‘‘$1,200,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2024 through 2028’’ for ‘‘$1,000,600,000 for each of fiscal years 2017 through 2023’’ and inserted at end ‘‘Amounts authorized to appropriated under this subsection should be prioritized to carry out programs and activities in tar- get countries.’’ 2018—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 115–266 substituted ‘‘fiscal years 2017 through 2023’’ for ‘‘fiscal years 2017 and 2018’’. Executive Documents DELEGATION OF FUNCTIONS Functions of President under subsec. (a) of this sec- tion delegated to the Secretary of State and the Ad- ministrator of the United States Agency for Inter- national Development, and under subsec. (c) of this sec- tion 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. § 9306. Emergency Food Security Program It shall be the policy of the United States, in coordination with other donors, regional govern- ments, international organizations, and inter- national financial institutions, to fully leverage, enhance, and expand the impact and reach of available United States humanitarian resources, including for food assistance, to mitigate the ef- fects of manmade and natural disasters by uti- lizing innovative new approaches to delivering aid that support affected persons and the com- munities hosting them, build resilience and early recovery, and reduce opportunities for waste, fraud, and abuse. (Pub. L. 114–195, § 7, July 20, 2016, 130 Stat. 680; Pub. L. 117–263, div. E, title LV, § 5588(g)(1), Dec. 23, 2022, 136 Stat. 3378.) Editorial Notes CODIFICATION Section is comprised of section 7 of Pub. L. 114–195. Subsec. (c)(1) of section 7 of Pub. L. 114–195 amended section 2292 of this title and subsec. (c)(2) of section 7 of Pub. L. 114–195 amended section 2292a of this title. AMENDMENTS 2022—Pub. L. 117–263 struck out subsec. (b) designa- tion and heading before ‘‘It shall be’’ and struck out subsec. (a) which related to sense of Congress regarding challenges of providing international disaster assist- ance, especially in Syria. § 9307. Reports (a) Global Food Security Strategy implementa- tion reports For each of the fiscal years through 2028, the President shall submit to the appropriate con- gressional committees a report that describes the status of the implementation of the Global Food Security Strategy during the preceding year, 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, including any changes to the target countries selected pur- suant to the selection criteria described in section 9304(a)(2) of this title and justifica- tions for any such changes; (3) identify and describe the progress made in implementing the Global Food Security Strategy; (4) identify and describe the priority quan- titative metrics used to establish baselines and performance targets at the initiative, country, and zone of influence levels; (5) identify such established baselines and performance targets at the country and zone of influence levels; (6) identify the output and outcome bench- marks and indicators used to measure results annually, and report the annual measurement of results for each of the priority metrics iden- tified pursuant to paragraph (4), disaggregated by age, gender, and disability, to the extent practicable and appropriate, in an open and transparent manner that is accessible to the people of the United States; (7) describe related strategies and bench- marks 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 food and nutrition security; (8) indicate how quantitative and qualitative findings from monitoring and evaluation were incorporated into program design and budget decisions at the initiative, country, and zone of influence levels, including longitudinal data and key uncertainties; (9) contain a transparent, open, and detailed accounting of spending by relevant Federal de- partments and agencies to implement the Global Food Security Strategy, including, for each Federal department and agency, the stat- Page 2225 TITLE 22—FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE § 9307 1 See References in Text note below. utory source of spending, amounts spent with- in target countries, amounts and justification for any spending outside of target countries, implementing partners and targeted bene- ficiaries, and activities supported to the ex- tent practicable and appropriate; (10) 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; (11) describe the contributions of the Global Food Security Strategy to, and assess the im- pact of, broader international food and nutri- tion security assistance programs, including progress in the promotion of land tenure rights, creating economic opportunities for women and small-scale producers, and stimu- lating agriculture-led economic growth in tar- get countries and communities; (12) assess efforts to coordinate United States international food security and nutri- tion programs, activities, and initiatives with key stakeholders; (13) assess United States Government-facili- tated private investment in related sectors and efforts to encourage financial donor bur- den sharing and the impact of such investment and efforts in target countries and commu- nities; (14) describe how agriculture research is prioritized within the Global Food Security Strategy to support agriculture-led growth and eventual self-sufficiency and assess efforts to coordinate research programs within the Global Food Security Strategy with key stakeholders; (15) identify any United States legal or regu- latory impediments that could obstruct the ef- fective implementation of the programming referred to in paragraphs (8) and (9); 1 (16) contain a clear gender analysis of pro- gramming, to inform project-level activities, that includes established disaggregated gender indicators to better analyze outcomes for food productivity, income growth, control of as- sets, equity in access to inputs, jobs and mar- kets, and nutrition; (17) incorporate a plan for regularly review- ing and updating strategies, partnerships, and programs and sharing lessons learned, includ- ing key challenges or missteps, with a wide range of stakeholders in an open, transparent manner; and (18) during the final year of each strategy re- quired under section 9304 of this title, com- plete country graduation reports to determine whether a country should remain a target country based on quantitative and qualitative analysis. (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 ap- propriate congressional committees a report in- cluding— (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 secu- rity 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 strat- egy 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 Fed- eral funds for global food security strategy activities; (2) to the extent available, a detailed ac- counting of all assistance funding received and obligated by the principal Federal agencies identified in the report and United States mul- tilateral 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, catego- rizing expenditures by type of funding, includ- ing research, resiliency, and other food secu- rity activities to the extent that such infor- mation 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 Inter- national Development in an open, machine read- able 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; Pub. L. 117–263, div. E, title LV, § 5588(h), Dec. 23, 2022, 136 Stat. 3379.) Editorial Notes REFERENCES IN TEXT Paragraphs (8) and (9), referred to in subsec. (a)(15), were redesignated as pars. (10) and (11), respectively, of subsec. (a) of this section by Pub. L. 117–263, div. E, title LV, § 5588(h)(5), Dec. 23, 2022, 136 Stat. 3379. AMENDMENTS 2022—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 117–263, § 5588(h)(1), in intro- ductory provisions, substituted ‘‘For each of the fiscal years through 2028,’’ for ‘‘During each of the first 7 years after the date of the submission of the strategy required under section 9304(c) of this title,’’, ‘‘a report that describes’’ for ‘‘reports that describe’’, and ‘‘dur- ing the preceding year’’ for ‘‘at the end of the reporting period’’. Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 117–263, § 5588(h)(2), inserted ‘‘, including any changes to the target countries se- lected pursuant to the selection criteria described in section 9304(a)(2) of this title and justifications for any such changes’’ before semicolon at end. Subsec. (a)(3). Pub. L. 117–263, § 5588(h)(3), inserted ‘‘identify and’’ before ‘‘describe’’. Subsec. (a)(4) to (6). Pub. L. 117–263, § 5588(h)(6), added pars. (4) to (6) and struck out former par. (4) which read as follows: ‘‘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;’’. Former pars. (5) and (6) re- designated (7) and (8), respectively. Page 2226 TITLE 22—FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE § 9308 1 So in original. Probably should be ‘‘Agricultural’’. 2 So in original. Probably should be ‘‘1431(b)).’’ Subsec. (a)(7). Pub. L. 117–263, § 5588(h)(5), (7), redesig- nated par. (5) as (7) and substituted ‘‘food’’ for ‘‘agri- culture’’. Former par. (7) redesignated (9). Subsec. (a)(8). Pub. L. 117–263, § 5588(h)(5), (8), redesig- nated par. (6) as (8) and inserted ‘‘quantitative and qualitative’’ after ‘‘how’’ and ‘‘at the initiative, coun- try, and zone of influence levels, including longitudinal data and key uncertainties’’ before semicolon at end. Former par. (8) redesignated (10). Subsec. (a)(9). Pub. L. 117–263, § 5588(h)(5), (9), redesig- nated par. (7) as (9) and inserted ‘‘within target coun- tries, amounts and justification for any spending out- side of target countries’’ after ‘‘amounts spent’’. Former par. (9) redesignated (11). Subsec. (a)(10) to (12). Pub. L. 117–263, § 5588(h)(5), re- designated pars. (8), (9), and (10) as (10), (11), and (12), respectively. Former pars. (10), (11), and (12) redesig- nated (12), (13), and (15), respectively. Subsec. (a)(13). Pub. L. 117–263, § 5588(h)(5), (10), redes- ignated par. (11) as (13) and substituted ‘‘and efforts to encourage financial donor burden sharing and the im- pact of such investment and efforts’’ for ‘‘and the im- pact of private sector investment’’. Subsec. (a)(14). Pub. L. 117–263, § 5588(h)(11), added par. (14). Former par. (14) redesignated (17). Subsec. (a)(15). Pub. L. 117–263, § 5588(h)(4), redesig- nated par. (12) as (15). Subsec. (a)(16). Pub. L. 117–263, § 5588(h)(4), (12), redes- ignated par. (13) as (16) and struck out ‘‘and’’ at end. Subsec. (a)(17). Pub. L. 117–263, § 5588(h)(4), (13), redes- ignated par. (14) as (17) and inserted ‘‘, including key challenges or missteps,’’ after ‘‘lessons learned’’ and substituted ‘‘; and’’ for period at end. Subsec. (a)(18). Pub. L. 117–263, § 5588(h)(14), added par. (18). 2018—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 115–266 substituted, in intro- ductory 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’’. Executive Documents DELEGATION OF FUNCTIONS Functions of President under subsec. (a) of this sec- tion 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. § 9308. Rule of construction (a) Effect on other programs Nothing in the Global Food Security Strategy or this chapter or the amendments made by this Act shall be construed to supersede or otherwise affect the authority of the relevant Federal de- partments and agencies to carry out programs specified in subsection (b), in the manner pro- vided, and subject to the terms and conditions, of those programs, including, but not limited to, the terms, conditions, and requirements relating to the procurement and transportation of food assistance furnished pursuant to such programs. (b) Programs described The programs referred to in subsection (a) are the following: (1) The Food for Peace Act (7 U.S.C. 1691 et seq.). (2) The Food for Progress Act of 1985 (7 U.S.C. 1736o). (3) Section 416(b) of the Agriculture 1 Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1431).2 (4) McGovern-Dole Food for Education Pro- gram (7 U.S.C. 1736o–1). (5) Local and Regional Procurement Pro- gram (7 U.S.C. 1726c). (6) Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust Act (7 U.S.C. 1736f–1). (7) Any other food and nutrition security and emergency and non-emergency food assist- ance program of the Department of Agri- culture. (Pub. L. 114–195, § 9, July 20, 2016, 130 Stat. 684.) Editorial Notes REFERENCES IN TEXT The amendments made by this Act, referred to in subsec. (a), are the amendments made by Pub. L. 114–195, section 7(c) of which amended sections 2292 and 2292a of this title. The Food for Peace Act, referred to in subsec. (b)(1), is act July 10, 1954, ch. 469, 68 Stat. 454, which is classi- fied generally to chapter 41 (§ 1691 et seq.) of Title 7, Ag- riculture. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 1691 of Title 7 and Tables. The Food for Progress Act of 1985, referred to in sub- sec. (b)(2), is Pub. L. 99–198, title XI, § 1110, Dec. 23, 1985, 99 Stat. 1472, which is classified to section 1736o of Title 7, Agriculture. The Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust Act, referred to in subsec. (b)(6), is title III of Pub. L. 96–494, as added by Pub. L. 104–127, title II, § 225(a), Apr. 4, 1996, 110 Stat. 959, which is classified to section 1736f–1 of Title 7, Ag- riculture. CHAPTER 101—COUNTERING IRAN’S DESTABILIZING ACTIVITIES Sec. 9401. Definitions. 9402. Regional strategy for countering conven- tional and asymmetric Iranian threats in the Middle East and North Africa. 9403. Imposition of additional sanctions in re- sponse to Iran’s ballistic missile program. 9404. Imposition of terrorism-related sanctions with respect to the IRGC. 9405. Imposition of additional sanctions with re- spect to persons responsible for human rights abuses. 9406. Enforcement of arms embargos. 9407. Review of applicability of sanctions relating to Iran’s support for terrorism and its bal- listic missile program. 9408. Report on coordination of sanctions between the United States and the European Union. 9409. Report on United States citizens detained by Iran. 9410. Exceptions for national security and humani- tarian assistance; rule of construction. 9411. Presidential waiver authority. 9412. Report and annual briefing on Iranian ex- penditures supporting foreign military and terrorist activities. § 9401. Definitions In this chapter: (1) Act of international terrorism The term ‘‘act of international terrorism’’ has the meaning given that term in section 14 of the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996 (Public Law 104–172; 50 U.S.C. 1701 note). (2) Appropriate congressional committees The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com- mittees’’ has the meaning given that term in