Sec. 9. Annual report
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Not later than 1 year after the end of the first fiscal year following the date of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the head of the relevant foreign assistance agency shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees and publish on the agency’s website a report on the agency’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 partners, including to local and national nonprofit organizations, local and national governments, and local and national private sector entities, in the previous fiscal year, including all development and humanitarian assistance programs.
An assessment of how the agency is enabling more local leadership of foreign assistance programs, including recipients of direct funding, subrecipients and subcontractors to an international implementing partner, participants in an agency program, or members of a community affected by such programming. An assessment of how the relevant foreign assistance agency is using new authorities granted in sections 6 and 7 and an assessment of the impact of these authorities on such agency’s ability to work with local partners and communities.
An assessment of how many organizations with a Negotiated Indirect Cost Rate (NICRA) cognizant to the relevant foreign assistance agency are utilizing provisional NICRAs for over 48 months without a final NICRA and steps that such agency can take to reduce the extension of provisional NICRAs beyond 12 months.