; (B) the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate ; (C) the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives ; and (D) the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives . (2) NICRA The term NICRA means Negotiated Indirect Cost Rate. (3) USAID The term USAID means the United States Agency for International Development. 5. Working with local partners The Administrator of USAID should, to the extent feasible and appropriate, localize the USAID partner base by— (1) simplifying and increasing access to USAID resources for local partners in humanitarian and development sectors, including local partners who have relations, agency, or power structures in place that produced, or can produce, strong trust, accountability, and legitimacy in the communities or networks in which such partners work; (2) diversifying award types to streamline performance requirements and working with the Office of Management and Budget to address threshold constraints, such as fixed amount subaward thresholds, category management award targets, and other thresholds, policies, and contracting incentives that pose a barrier to effectively supporting local partners; (3) streamlining monitoring and evaluation, periodic reporting, and other USAID reporting requirements; (4) ensuring USAID staff are able and encouraged to conduct regular consultation with local partners in local languages of the host countries, making available solicitations for acquisitions and assistance and accepting submissions in local languages, video format, or verbal presentations, including by— (A) investing in translation services; (B) hosting workshop-based engagements; and (C) advertising solicitations in local trade publications, local media including newspapers and radio, local community centers, and local online forums; (5) allowing and promoting multi-year, flexible, tiered, and milestone-based funding for new programs and to bring successful programs to scale