Sec. 708. Resources and reporting requirements
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Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Secretary shall submit a report to the appropriate congressional committees that outlines the resources needed to meet the objectives of this title, including— personnel needs; and a description of the bureaucratic structure of the offices within the Department and USAID that are engaged in anti-corruption activities. Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Secretary shall brief the appropriate congressional committees on the implementation of this title, including— the designation of anti-corruption points of contact for countries under section 705(a); the training implemented under section 705(c); the reports received from anti-corruption points of contact under section 705(d); the management of the whole-of-government effort to improve coordination under section 706(a); the establishment of the task force under section 706(b); and the activities of the task force under section 706(c).
The briefings under subsection
(b)shall be conducted on an in-person basis to members or staff of the appropriate congressional committees. Portions of the briefings may be conducted in a classified setting, as needed. The Secretary and the USAID Administrator shall consolidate existing reports with anti-corruption components into one online, public platform, which shall— include— the Human Rights Report; the Fiscal Transparency Report; the Investment Climate Statement reports; the International Narcotics Control Strategy Report; and any other relevant public reports; link to third-party indicators and compliance mechanisms used by the United States Government to inform policy and programming, such as— the International Finance Corporation’s Doing Business surveys; the International Budget Partnership’s Open Budget Index; and multilateral peer review anti-corruption compliance mechanisms, such as the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Working Group on Bribery in International Business Transactions and the United Nations Convention Against Corruption, done at New York October 31, 2003, to further highlight expert international views on country challenges and country efforts. The Secretary and the USAID Administrator shall incorporate anti-corruption components into existing Foreign Service and Civil Service training courses— to increase the ability of Department and USAID personnel to support anti-corruption as a foreign policy and development priority; and to strengthen their ability to design, implement, and evaluate more effective anti-corruption programming around the world, including enhancing skills to better evaluate and mitigate public corruption risks in assistance programs.