Sec. 6014. Expanding United States-Taiwan development cooperation
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No later than 120 days following the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), in consultation with the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report on cooperation with Taiwan on trilateral and multilateral development initiatives through the American Institute in Taiwan as appropriate. The report required by subsection
(a)shall include: A comprehensive review of existing cooperation mechanisms and initiatives between USAID or DFC, and relevant departments and agencies in Taiwan, including, but not limited to Taiwan’s International Cooperation and Development Fund (ICDF). An assessment of how USAID and DFC development cooperation with relevant departments and agencies in Taiwan compares to comparable cooperation with partners of similar economic size and foreign assistance capacity. An analysis of the opportunities and challenges the cooperation reviewed in paragraph
(1)has offered to date. The analysis shall include, but is not limited to— opportunities collaboration has offered to expand USAID’s and DFC’s ability to deliver assistance into a wider range communities; sectors where USAID, DFC, ICDF, other relevant agencies and departments in Taiwan, or the organizations’ implementing partners have a comparative advantage in providing assistance; opportunities to transition virtual capacity building events with relevant departments and agencies in Taiwan, through the Global Cooperation and Training Framework
(GCTF)as well as other forums, into in-person, enduring forms of development cooperation. An assessment of any legal, policy, logistical, financial, or administrative barriers to expanding cooperation in trilateral or multilateral development. The analysis shall include, but is not limited to— availability of personnel at the American Institute in Taiwan
(AIT)responsible for coordinating development assistance cooperation; volume of current cooperation initiatives and barriers to expanding it; diplomatic, policy, or legal barriers facing the United States or other partners to including Taiwan in formal and informal multilateral development cooperation mechanisms; resource or capacity barriers to expanding cooperation facing the United States or Taiwan; and geopolitical barriers that complicate U.S.-Taiwan cooperation in third countries. Recommendations to address the challenges identified in paragraph (b)(4). A description of any additional resources or authorities that expanding cooperation might require. The strategy required in subsection
(a)shall be unclassified, but it may include a classified annex if the Administrator of USAID determines it appropriate.