22 U.S.C. § 2151u : US Code - Section 2151U: Private and voluntary organizations and cooperatives in overseas development

Search 22 U.S.C. § 2151u : US Code - Section 2151U: Private and voluntary organizations and cooperatives in overseas development

(a) Congressional finding of importance of participation by private
and voluntary organizations
The Congress finds that the participation of rural and urban poor
people in their countries' development can be assisted and
accelerated in an effective manner through an increase in
activities planned and carried out by private and voluntary
organizations and cooperatives. Such organizations and
cooperatives, embodying the American spirit of self-help and
assistance to others to improve their lives and incomes, constitute
an important means of mobilizing private American financial and
human resources to benefit poor people in developing countries. The
Congress declares that it is in the interest of the United States
that such organizations and cooperatives expand their overseas
development efforts without compromising their private and
independent nature. The Congress further declares that the
financial resources of such organizations and cooperatives should
be supplemented by the contribution of public funds for the purpose
of undertaking development activities in accordance with the
principles set forth in section 2151-1 of this title and, if
necessary and determined on a case-by-case basis, for the purpose
of sharing the cost of developing programs related to such
activities. The Congress urges the Administrator of the agency
primarily responsible for administering subchapter I of this
chapter, in implementing programs authorized under subchapter I of
this chapter, to draw on the resource of private and voluntary
organizations and cooperatives to plan and carry out development
activities and to establish simplified procedures for the
development and approval of programs to be carried out by such
private and voluntary organizations and cooperatives as have
demonstrated a capacity to undertake effective development
activities.
(b) Payment of transportation charges on shipments by American
National Red Cross and United States voluntary agencies
In order to further the efficient use of United States voluntary
contributions for development, relief, and rehabilitation of
friendly peoples, the President is authorized to use funds made
available for the purposes of this part and part X of this
subchapter to pay transportation charges on shipments by the
American National Red Cross and by United States voluntary agencies
registered with the Agency for International Development.
(c) Reimbursement for transportation charges
Reimbursement under this section may be provided for
transportation charges on shipments from United States ports, or in
the case of excess or surplus property supplied by the United
States from foreign ports, to ports of entry abroad or to points of
entry abroad in cases (1) of landlocked countries, (2) where ports
cannot be used effectively because of natural or other
disturbances, (3) where carriers to a specified country are
unavailable, or (4) where a substantial savings in costs or time
can be effected by the utilization of points of entry other than
ports.
(d) Arrangements with receiving country for free entry of shipments
and for availability of local currency to defray transportation
costs
Where practicable, the President shall make arrangements with the
receiving country for free entry of such shipments and for the
making available by the country of local currencies for the purpose
of defraying the transportation costs of such shipments from the
port or point of entry of the receiving country to the designated
shipping point of the consignee.
(e) Continuation of support for programs in countries antedating
prohibitions on assistance; national interest considerations;
report to Congress
Prohibitions on assistance to countries contained in this chapter
or any other Act shall not be construed to prohibit assistance by
the agency primarily responsible for administering subchapter I of
this chapter in support of programs of private and voluntary
organizations and cooperatives already being supported prior to the
date such prohibition becomes applicable. The President shall take
into consideration, in any case in which statutory prohibitions on
assistance would be applicable but for this subsection, whether
continuation of support for such programs is in the national
interest of the United States. If the President continues such
support after such date, he shall prepare and transmit, not later
than one year after such date, to the Speaker of the House of
Representatives and to the chairman of the Committee on Foreign
Relations of the Senate a report setting forth the reasons for such
continuation.
(f) Funds for private and voluntary organizations
For each of the fiscal years 1986 through 1989, funds in an
amount not less than thirteen and one half percent of the aggregate
amount appropriated for that fiscal year to carry out sections
2151a(a), 2151b(b), 2151b(c), 2151c, 2151d, 2151s,(!1) and 2292 of
this title shall be made available for the activities of private
and voluntary organizations, and the President shall seek to
channel funds in an amount not less than 16 percent of such
aggregate amount for the activities of private and voluntary
organizations. Funds made available under part IV of subchapter II
of this chapter for the activities of private and voluntary
organizations may be considered in determining compliance with the
requirements of this subsection.
(g) Repealed. Pub. L. 105-277, div. A, Sec. 101(d) [title II], Oct.
21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681-150, 2681-156
(h) Promotion of democratic cooperatives
The Congress recognizes that, in addition to their role in social
and economic development, cooperatives provide an opportunity for
people to participate directly in democratic decisionmaking.
Therefore, assistance under this part shall be provided to rural
and urban cooperatives which offer large numbers of low- and middle-
income people in developing countries an opportunity to
participate directly in democratic decisionmaking. Such assistance
shall be designed to encourage the adoption of self-help, private
sector cooperative techniques and practices which have been
successful in the United States.