Sec. 8301. Transparency and accountability in budgeting
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The Secretary, the Administrator, and the Chief Executive Officer of the Millennium Challenge Corporation shall maintain an online database of information, easily accessible to the public, which contains the information described in subsection
(b)for each project and activity within their respective areas of responsibility, including for any project or activity for which funds are transferred to another Federal agency for obligation. Each project and activity shall be identified separately in such database, and for each project and activity the database shall include, at a minimum— a brief description of the nature of the project or activity; the geographic location or locations in which the project or activity is being carried out; the specific objectives and timetable of the project or activity; the indicators, which shall be quantitative wherever possible and relevant, used to define the successful achievement of the goals of the project or activity; the number and demographic characteristics of the intended beneficiaries of the project or activity; each sector, theme, goal and objective toward which the project or activity will be counted; names and descriptions of the implementing partners of the project or activity; the amount of United States foreign assistance funds obligated for each such project or activity and the source of those funds; expenditures of funds for the project or activity on a quarterly basis; the contributions toward the project or activity provided by the partner country; any conditions placed on the use of United States Government funds obligated for the project or activity, and whether those conditions have been met; the evaluation and monitoring plan for each such project or activity; semiannual updates on results achieved to date for each such project or activity; and if a project or activity has been extended, suspended, terminated, or significantly modified, the reasons for such action. In addition to the information relating to specific projects and activities as required under paragraph (1), the database shall contain, for each overseas mission, information on all overhead and administrative costs, including— for the previous fiscal year, numbers of staff in each employment category, housing and facilities operation and maintenance expenses, salaries and benefits, travel and transportation expenses, and other support costs; and for the coming fiscal year, planned capital investments and projected staff increases or reductions. For each project and activity in effect on the date of the enactment of this Act, the database shall be operative within 6 months of such date of enactment. For each project and activity that has not received United States Government funding as of the date of the enactment of this Act, the department or agency (as the case may be) shall enter into the database the information required by paragraph
(1)within 90 days from the date of the initial obligation of funds for the project or activity. In the event of any changes or modifications in any of the elements of the database for a project or activity, the database shall be updated as soon as possible but in no event later than 30 days from the date on which such changes or modifications have been approved and, where applicable, agreed to by the partner country. If the Secretary, the Administrator, or the Chief Executive Officer of the Millennium Challenge Corporation, as the case may be, makes a determination that the inclusion of a required item of information in the database could reasonably be expected to jeopardize the health or safety of a private partner or program beneficiary or would be detrimental to the national interests of the United States, such item of information may be submitted to the appropriate congressional committees in a non-public written report in lieu of including it in the database, along the reasons for not including it in the database. The database required under this section shall be structured so that— data may be uploaded from overseas missions; and users may search the data by word and sort the data by field. The information contained in the database required under subsection
(b)shall include all information provided to the Development Assistance Committee of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the International Aid Transparency Initiative, and should, to the maximum extent possible, be harmonized with the types, categories and formats of information requested by such organization and such initiative. In this section, the terms project and activity mean a discrete assistance activity for which funds are made available, including activities encompassed within a strategy, compact, agreement, account or program of assistance.