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 116 STAT. 3132 CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS—MAR. 8, 2002 poverty, heightening the prospect of humanitarian intervention and potentially threatening a wide range of United States interests in sub-Saharan Africa. SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS. It is the sense of Congress that— (1) the United States should declare "A Decade of Support for Sub-Saharan Africa"; (2) not later than 90 days after the date of adoption of this concurrent resolution, the President should submit a report to Congress setting forth a five-year strategy, and a ten-year strategy, to achieve a reversal of current levels of hunger and poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, including a commitment to contribute an appropriate United States share of increased bilateral and multilateral poverty-focused resources for sub- Saharan Africa, with an emphasis on— (A) health, including efforts to prevent, treat, and control HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other diseases that contribute to malnutrition and hunger, and to promote maternal health and child survival; (B) education, with an emphasis on equal access to learning for girls and women; (C) agriculture, including strengthening subsistence agriculture as well as the ability to compete in global agricultural markets, and investment in infrastructure and rural development; (D) private sector and free market development, to bring sub-Saharan Africa into the global economy, enable people to purchase food, and make health and education investments sustainable; (E) democratic institutions and the rule of law, including strengthening civil society and independent judiciaries; (F) micro-finance development; and (G) debt relief that provides incentives for sub-Saharan African countries to invest in poverty-focused development, and to expand democratic participation, free markets, trade, and investment; (3) the President should work with the heads of other donor countries and sub-Saharan African countries, and with United States and sub-Saharan African private and voluntary organizations and other civic organizations, including faithbased organizations, to implement the strategies described in paragraph (2); (4) Congress should undertake a multi-year commitment to provide the resources to implement those strategies; and (5) 120 days after the date of adoption of this concurrent resolution, and every year thereafter, the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, in consultation with the heads of other appropriate Federal departments and agencies, should submit to Congress a report on the implementation of those strategies, including the action taken under paragraph (3), describing— (A) the results of the implementation of those strategies as of the date of the report, including the progress made and any setbacks suffered; (B) impediments to, and opportunities for, future progress;

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