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Foreign Assistance Act 117, 118,   & 119

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Foreign Assistance Act 117, 118, & 119

FAA 117 Section 117 of the Foreign Assistance Act (FAA) of 1961, as amended. Requires USAID to utilize an EIA process to evaluate the potential impact of USAID’s activities on the environment prior to implementation, and to “fully take into account” environmental sustainability in designing and carrying out its development programs. Read full text. Word (29 KB)

FAA 118 Establishes programming mandates related to tropical forests and requires that: “Each country development strategy statement or other country plan prepared by the Agency for International Development shall include an analysis of (1) the actions necessary in that country to achieve conservation and sustainable management of tropical forests, and (2) the extent to which the actions proposed for support by the Agency meet the needs thus identified.” ADS 201.3.4 implements this mandate by requiring that an “environmental analysis” conforming to this requirement and that of FAA 119 (see below), be completed in Phase 1 of development of each (CDCS). Read full text. Word (33 KB)

FAA 119 Establishes programming mandates related to biodiversity and requires that: “Each country development strategy statement or other country plan prepared by the Agency for International Development shall include an analysis of (1) the actions necessary in that country to conserve biological diversity, and (2) the extent to which the actions proposed for support by the Agency meet the needs thus identified.” ADS 201.3.4 implements this mandate by requiring that an “environmental analysis” conforming to this requirement and that of FAA 118 (see above), be completed in Phase 1 of development of each Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS). Read full text. Word (33 KB)

FAA, Part I, Chapter 7 - Debt for Nature Exchanges the cancellation or redemption of the foreign debt of the government of a country in exchange for- Read full text. PDF (1 MB)

FAA, Part IV - Enterprise for the Americas InitiativeThe purpose of this part is to encourage and support improvement in the lives of the people of Latin America and the Caribbean through market-oriented reforms and economic growth with interrelated actions to promote debt reduction, investment reforms, community based conservation, and sustainable use of the environment, and child survival and child development. The Facility will support these objectives through administration of debt reduction operations under this part for those countries with democratically elected governments that meet investment reforms and other policy conditions. Read full text. PDF (1 MB)

FAA, Part V – Debt Reduction for Developing Countries with Tropical Forests The purposes of this part are :(1) to recognize the values received by United States citizens from protection of tropical forests; (2) to facilitate greater protection of tropical forests (and to give priority to protecting tropical forests with the highest levels of biodiversity and under the most severe threat) by providing for the alleviation of debt in countries where tropical forests are located, thus allowing the use of additional resources to protect these critical resources and reduce economic pressures that have led to deforestation; (3) to ensure that resources freed from debt in such countries are targeted to protection of tropical forests and their associated values; and (4) to rechannel existing resources to facilitate the protection of tropical forests. Read full text. PDF (2.6 MB)

 

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