Sec. 8. Annual report
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Not later than 180 days after the end of each fiscal year following the date of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Administrator of USAID shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees and publish on USAID’s website a report on USAID’s progress to advance locally led development and humanitarian response, to include the following elements: The amount of funding implemented directly and indirectly by local entities in the previous fiscal year, including all development and humanitarian assistance programs.
An assessment of how USAID is enabling more local leadership of USAID-funded programs, including recipients of direct funding, subrecipients and subcontractors to an international implementing partner, participants in a USAID program, or members of a community affected by USAID programming. An assessment of progress implementing the Acquisitions and Assistance Strategy, including updated information on the ratio of the USAID Acquisitions and Assistance workforce to award dollars managed with comparison to other relevant agencies; the Local Capacity Strengthening Policy; the Policy on Locally Led Humanitarian Assistance; and any other relevant strategies and policies.
An assessment of how USAID is using new authorities granted in sections 6 and 7 and an assessment of the impact of these authorities on USAID’s ability to work with local partners. An assessment of how many organizations with a Negotiated Indirect Cost Rate (NICRA) cognizant to USAID are utilizing provisional NICRAs for over 48 months without a final NICRA and steps that USAID can take to reduce the extension of provisional NICRAs beyond 12 months.