Sec. 6. Report
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Not later than 1 year after the date of the submission of the Global Food Security Strategy, the President shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report that describes the status of the implementation of the Global Food Security Strategy. The report required under subsection
(a)shall— contain a summary of the Global Food Security Strategy as an appendix; identify any substantial changes made in the Global Food Security Strategy during the preceding calendar year; describe the progress made in implementing the Global Food Security Strategy; 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; 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; contain a transparent, open, and detailed accounting of expenditures by relevant Federal departments and agencies to implement the Global Food Security Strategy, including, for each Federal department and agency, the statutory source of expenditures, amounts expended, implementing partners, targeted beneficiaries, and activities supported; 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; 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; assess efforts to coordinate United States international food security and nutrition programs, activities, and initiatives with key stakeholders; identify any United States legal or regulatory impediments that could obstruct the effective implementation of the programming referred to in paragraphs
(7)and (8); assess United States Government-facilitated private investment in related sectors and the impact of private sector investment in target countries and communities; 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 incorporate a plan for regularly reviewing and updating strategies, partnerships, and programs and sharing lessons learned with a wide range of stakeholders, including key stakeholders, in an open, transparent manner. The information referred to in subsection
(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.