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Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 14:09:32 -0800
From: David Mozer <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: [AfricaMatters] FW: Hunger to Harvest Resolution passes Congress
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From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 8:44 AM
To: Friends of Africa; Friends of Africa
Subject: Hunger to Harvest Resolution passes Congress
Dear Friends of Africa:
US House of Representatives just passed the "Africa :
Hunger to Harvest Resolution" (H. Con. Res. 102). The
companion measure passed the Senate last July
(SConRes 53). The House is subsitituted the somewhat
stronger Senate language requesting the Bush
Administration to present Congress with a 5-year and 10-
year plan to reduce poverty and hunger in Sub-Saharan
Africa.
In his remarks on the floor of the House, Rep. Payne noted that
passage of this resolution signaled Congressional support the
"New Partnership for African Development", the
comprehensive, African-led, strategy brought forward under the
leadership of the Presidents of South Africa, Nigeria, Senegal
and Algeria.
The bipartisan bill was introduced by Rep. Jim Leach (R-Iowa)
and Rep. Don Payne (D-New Jersey). 154 other members
joined in cosponsoring the measure in response to a year-long
national grassroots lobbying effort by Bread for the World
members and partner organizations. Senator Chuck Hagel (R-
Nebraska) and Patrick Leahy D-Vermont) introduced the
Senate bill.
BILL SUMMARY :
Hunger to Harvest Resolution: A Decade of Concern for Africa -
Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the United States
should declare "A Decade of Concern for Africa" and commit
to increased levels of effective, poverty-focused development
assistance to sub- Saharan Africa until significant progress is
made toward reversing current levels of hunger and poverty; (2)
the President should work with the heads of other advanced
industrial and sub-Saharan African countries, and with United
States and sub-Saharan African private voluntary and other
civic organizations, to increase development assistance to sub-
Saharan Africa; (3) Congress should undertake a multi- year
commitment with other donors to provide the resources
necessary to cut hunger by one-half in that region; (4) such
funding should support both bilateral and multilateral poverty-
focused development efforts; and (5) the Administrator of the
United States Agency for International Development should
annually submit to Congress a progress report.
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WHAT'S NEXT:
Throughout Fiscal Year 2003 U.S. budget cycle, Bread for the
World and its coalition partners are determined to work with
Congress and the Administration to begin to realize the goals of
the Hunger to Harvest resolution. We will be actively pushing for
new funding for poverty-focused development accounts.
We are also working with partners around the world to insist
that increased long-term development assistance for Sub-
Saharan Africa must be major outcome of the next G-8 Summit
of the world's richest countries.
Thanks to everyone that continues to work on this campaign.
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