[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Con. Res. 102 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.Con.Res.102
                                         Agreed to March 8, 2002        

                      One Hundred Seventh Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

         Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday,
          the twenty-third day of January, two thousand and two


                          Concurrent Resolution

    Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring),

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This concurrent resolution may be cited as the ``Hunger to Harvest: 
Decade of Support for Sub-Saharan Africa Resolution''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds the following:
        (1) Despite some progress in recent years, sub-Saharan Africa 
    enters the new millennium with many of the world's poorest 
    countries and is the one region of the world where hunger is both 
    pervasive and increasing.
        (2) Thirty-three of the world's 41 poorest debtor countries are 
    in sub-Saharan Africa and an estimated 291,000,000 people, nearly 
    one-half of sub-Saharan Africa's total population, currently live 
    in extreme poverty on less than $1 a day.
        (3) One in three people in sub-Saharan Africa is chronically 
    undernourished, double the number of three decades ago. One child 
    out of seven dies before the age of five, and one-half of these 
    deaths are due to malnutrition.
        (4) Sub-Saharan Africa is the region in the world most affected 
    by infectious disease, accounting for one-half of the deaths 
    worldwide from HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, cholera, and 
    several other diseases.
        (5) Sub-Saharan Africa is home to 70 percent of adults, and 80 
    percent of children, living with the HIV virus, and 75 percent of 
    the people worldwide who have died of AIDS lived in Africa.
        (6) The HIV/AIDS pandemic has erased many of the development 
    gains of the past generation in sub-Saharan Africa and now 
    threatens to undermine economic and social progress for the next 
    generation, with life expectancy in parts of sub-Saharan Africa 
    having already decreased by 10-20 years as a result of AIDS.
        (7) Despite these immense challenges, the number of sub-Saharan 
    African countries that are moving toward open economies and more 
    accountable governments has increased, and these countries are 
    beginning to achieve local solutions to their common problems.
        (8) To make lasting improvements in the lives of their people, 
    sub-Saharan Africa governments need support as they act to solve 
    conflicts, make critical investments in human capacity and 
    infrastructure, combat corruption, reform their economies, 
    stimulate trade and equitable economic growth, and build democracy.
        (9) Despite sub-Saharan Africa's enormous development 
    challenges, United States companies hold approximately 
    $12,800,000,000 in investments in sub-Saharan Africa, greater than 
    United States investments in either the Middle East or Eastern 
    Europe, and total United States trade with sub-Saharan Africa 
    currently exceeds that with all of the independent states of the 
    former Soviet Union, including the Russian Federation. This 
    economic relationship could be put at risk unless additional public 
    and private resources are provided to combat poverty and promote 
    equitable economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa.
        (10) Bread for the World Institute calculates that the goal of 
    reducing world hunger by one-half by 2015 is achievable through an 
    increase of $4,000,000,000 in annual funding from all donors for 
    poverty-focused development. If the United States were to shoulder 
    one-fourth of this aid burden--approximately $1,000,000,000 a 
    year--the cost to each United States citizen would be one penny per 
    day.
        (11) Failure to effectively address sub-Saharan Africa's 
    development needs could result in greater conflict and increased 
    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 faith-based 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;
            (C) proposed changes to those strategies, if any; and
            (D) the role and extent of cooperation of the governments 
        of sub-Saharan countries and other donors, both public and 
        private, in combating poverty and promoting equitable economic 
        development.
  Attest:

                                 Clerk of the House of Representatives.

  Attest:

                                               Secretary of the Senate.