Sec. 259. DEFINITIONS
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## SEC. 259 DEFINITIONS **[**[22 U.S.C. 2214a](/us/usc/t22/s2214a)**]** In this title: ####
(1)Administrator The term “**Administrator**” means the Administrator of the Agency. ####
(2)Agency The term “**Agency**” means the United States Agency for International Development. ####
(3)Appropriate congressional committees The term “**appropriate congressional committees**” means the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate. ####
(4)Business development services The term “**business development services**” means support for the growth of micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises through training, technical assistance, marketing assistance, improved production technologies, and other related services. ####
(5)Director The term “**Director**” means the Director of the office. ####
(6)Implementing partner organization The term “**implementing partner organization**” means an entity eligible to receive assistance under this title which is— #####
(A)a United States or an indigenous private voluntary organization; #####
(B)a United States or an indigenous credit union; #####
(C)a United States or an indigenous cooperative organization; #####
(D)an indigenous governmental or nongovernmental organization; #####
(E)a micro, small, or medium-sized enterprise institution; #####
(F)a financial intermediary; or #####
(G)a practitioner institution. ####
(7)Micro, small, and medium-sized enterprise institution The term “**micro, small, and medium-sized enterprise institution**” means an entity that provides services, including finance, training, or business development services, for micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises in foreign countries. ####
(8)Financial intermediary The term “**financial intermediary**” means the entity that acts as the intermediary between parties in a financial transaction, such as a bank, credit union, investment fund, a village savings and loan group, or an institution that provides financial services to a micro, small, or medium-sized enterprise. ####
(9)Office The term “**office**” means the office established under section 252(b)(1). ####
(10)Practitioner institution The term “**practitioner institution**” means a not-for-profit entity, a financial intermediary, an information and communications technology firm with a mobile money platform, a village and savings loan group, or any other entity that provides financial or business development services authorized under section 252 that benefits micro, small, and medium-sized enterprise clients. ####
(11)Private voluntary organization The term “**private voluntary organization**” means a not-for-profit entity that— #####
(A)engages in and supports activities of an economic or social development or humanitarian nature for citizens in foreign countries; and #####
(B)is incorporated as such under the laws of the United States, including any of its states, territories or the District of Columbia, or of a foreign country. ####
(12)United states-supported financial intermediary The term “**United States-supported financial intermediary**” means a financial intermediary that has received funds made available under this part for fiscal year 1980 or any subsequent fiscal year. ####
(13)Very poor The term “**very poor**” means those individuals— #####
(A)living in the bottom 50 percent below the poverty line established by the national government of the country in which those individuals live; or #####
(B)living below the international poverty line (as defined by the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the International Development Association (collectively referred to as the “**World Bank**”)). # TITLE ix utilization of democratic institutions in development
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