22 U.S.C. § 290h–3: Functions of Foundation

Summary

Allows the Foundation to give grants, loans, and loan guarantees to African public or private groups, including public international organizations, for five types of development work. These include building local development institutions and supporting community-led projects, helping project participants learn from and share what they do, backing African-led research and the spread of expertise inside Africa, paying for technical help the recipient needs, and other projects that meet the program’s goals. No single project may get more than $250,000. The Foundation may share lessons from these projects with the American public and with U.S. and multilateral development organizations. The Foundation must put first those projects that communities run to help themselves and where the poor take part as much as possible in starting, planning, carrying out, and evaluating the work. It may fund African groups that represent and understand the poor and that will pass funds on to other African groups to do the projects.

Title 22, §290h–3

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(a)Types of programs; project limitations; dissemination of project insights

(1)In order to carry out the purposes set forth in section 290h–2 of this title, the Foundation may make grants, loans, and loan guarantees to any African private or public group (including public international organizations), association, or other entity engaged in peaceful activities for—

(A)the fostering of local development institutions and the support of development efforts initiated by communities themselves;

(B)the development of self-evaluation techniques by participants in projects supported under this section, for the purpose of transferring experience gained in such projects to similar development activities;

(C)development research by Africans and the transfer of development resources, expertise, and knowledge within Africa;

(D)the procurement of such technical or other assistance as is deemed appropriate by the recipient of such grant, loan, or guarantee, to carry out the purposes of this subchapter; and

(E)other projects that would carry out the purposes set forth in section 290h–2 of this title.

(2)The total amount of grants, loans, and loan guarantees that may be made under this section for a project may not exceed $250,000.

(3)The Foundation may disseminate to the American public and to United States and multilateral development institutions insights gained from African development projects assisted under this subchapter.

(b)Community project priorities; disbursement of funds by recipients to other African entities

In making grants, loans, and loan guarantees under subsection (a), the Foundation shall give priority to projects which community groups undertake to foster their own development and in the initiation, design, implementation, and evaluation of which there is the maximum feasible participation of the poor. Where appropriate and in keeping with the purposes of this subchapter, the Foundation may make such grants, loans, and loan guarantees to African entities which are representative and knowledgeable of, and sensitive to, the needs and aspirations of the poor and which would disburse funds acquired under such grants, loans, and loan guarantees to other African entities to carry out the purposes of this subchapter.

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Amendments

1988—Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 100–461 inserted “(including public international organizations)” after “public group”.

§290h–3 Functions of Foundation

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Title 22, §290h–3

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