§ 284q. — Special Facility for SubSaharan Africa.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 22USC284q]
TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
CHAPTER 7--INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS, CONGRESSES, ETC.
SUBCHAPTER XIII--INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION
Sec. 284q. Special Facility for Sub-Saharan Africa
(a) The Secretary of the Treasury shall pay to the Special Facility
for Sub-Saharan Africa, administered by the Association, amounts
appropriated pursuant to subsection (b) of this section.
(b) For purposes of the United States contribution provided for in
subsection (a) of this section, there are authorized to be appropriated,
without fiscal year limitation, $225,000,000.
(Pub. L. 86-565, Sec. 19, as added Pub. L. 99-190, Sec. 101(i) [title I,
(a)], Dec. 19, 1985, 99 Stat. 1291, 1294.)
Codification
Section 19 of Pub. L. 86-565 is based on section 102 of title I of
H.R. 2253, Ninety-ninth Congress, as reported May 15, 1985, and enacted
into law by Pub. L. 99-190.
Congressional Findings
Section 101 of title I of H.R. 2253, as enacted into permanent law
by section 101(i) of Pub. L. 99-190, provided that: ``The Congress
hereby finds that--
``(1) Sub-Saharan Africa faces a virtually unprecedented
condition of human misery which threatens the lives of one hundred
and fifty million people;
``(2) only the combined effort of both the African nations
themselves and international aid donors can overcome the obstacles
to economic development which have given rise to conditions of
famine, declining food production, infant mortality,
desertification, and deteriorating infrastructure;
``(3) international relief efforts have helped to address the
immediate crisis of starvation in Africa and the United States has
made important contributions to this effort both bilaterally and
through contributions to the multilateral development institutions;
``(4) there is a serious shortfall in the external capital
resources necessary to support the policy reform efforts of the
African governments and to achieve the long-term development
necessary to avert a chronic state of crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa;
``(5) the Special Facility for Sub-Saharan Africa will have as
its primary goal the implementation of policy reforms to help the
African countries to help themselves;
``(6) to succeed, these efforts must be reinforced by
development resources;
``(7) the appalling conditions prevalent in the countries of
Sub-Saharan Africa underscore the need for the United States to
participate in a coordinated framework with the other aid donor
countries; and
``(8) the Special Facility for Sub-Saharan Africa provides such
a framework and it is in the humanitarian, economic, and strategic
interests of the United States to participate.''
