22 USC 2214a - Definitions

U.S Code last checked for updates: Nov 23, 2024

§ 2214a.

Definitions

In this subpart:

(1)

Administrator

(2)

Agency

(3)

Appropriate congressional committees

(4)

Business development services

(5)

Director

(6)

Implementing partner organization

The term “implementing partner organization” means an entity eligible to receive assistance under this subpart 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

(8)

Financial intermediary

(9)

Office

(10)

Practitioner institution

(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

(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’)).

(Pub. L. 87–195, pt. I, § 259, as added Pub. L. 108–484, § 6, Dec. 23, 2004, 118 Stat. 3929; amended Pub. L. 115–428, § 4(i), Jan. 9, 2019, 132 Stat. 5515.)

cite as: 22 USC 2214a