Sec. 7. United States complimentary strategies to increase sustainable, affordable, and equitable access to safe water, sanitation, and hygiene
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Section 6 of the Senator Paul Simon Water for the Poor Act of 2005 ( Public Law 109–121 ; 119 Stat. 2533; 22 U.S.C. 2152h note) is amended to read as follows: As soon as practicable after the date of the enactment of the Senator Paul Simon Water for the World Act of 2013, and every 5 years thereafter, the President, acting through the Secretary of State, shall develop a strategy to further the United States foreign policy objective to provide affordable and equitable access to safe water and sanitation in developing countries, as described in section 136 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and by the Agency’s Water and Development Strategy required under subsection (b).
The strategy required under paragraph
(1)shall— articulate the United States foreign policy framework that will drive the implementation of the United States foreign policy objectives on increasing access to equitable, clean drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene for the world’s poorest, water resource management, transboundary water and prevention of conflict over water resources; and address ways in which United States foreign policy efforts will promote global water security by building political will and partnerships, and support for national level planning processes, in conjunction with the United States Agency for International Development and other Federal agencies, and leveraging expertise, knowledge, technology and resources that will increase the likelihood that the world’s poor receive or continue to have the water they need, when and where they need it, in a sustainable, equitable and conflict-free manner. The strategy required by paragraph
(1)shall be developed in consultation with the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, the heads of other appropriate Federal departments and agencies, international organizations, international financial institutions, recipient governments, United States and international nongovernmental organizations, indigenous civil society, and other appropriate entities, and shall be complimentary to, or ultimately joined with, the Agency’s Water and Development Strategy required under subsection
(b)and subsequent revisions thereto. The Secretary of State, acting through the Under Secretary of State who has responsibility to oversee water programs and the Special Advisor for Water Resources, shall implement the strategy required under paragraph (1). The strategy may also be implemented in part by other Federal departments and agencies, as appropriate. The strategy required under paragraph
(1)shall be consistent with the policy stated in section 3 of this Act. The strategy required under paragraph
(1)shall include— specific and measurable goals, benchmarks, and timetables to achieve the objective described in paragraph (1); an assessment of the level of funding and other assistance for United States water and sanitation programs needed each by the United States Department of State year to achieve the goals, benchmarks, and timetables described in subparagraph (A); methods to coordinate and integrate United States water, water resources and sanitation assistance carried out by the Department of State with water, sanitation, hygiene and water resource development programs carried out by the United States Agency for International Development and other Federal agencies to achieve the objective described in paragraph (1); methods to better coordinate United States water and sanitation assistance programs with programs of other donor countries and entities to achieve the objective described in paragraph (1); and an assessment of the commitment of governments of countries that receive assistance under section 136 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to policies or policy reforms that support affordable and equitable access by the people of such countries to safe water and sanitation. As soon as practicable after the date of the enactment of the Senator Paul Simon Water for the World Act of 2013, but no less than 5 years after such date of enactment and every 5 years thereafter, the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, acting through the Global Water Coordinator and in consultation with the Special Advisor for Water Resources, shall develop a strategy, to be known as the Water and Development Strategy , to further, through the United States Agency for International Development, the United States foreign assistance objective to provide affordable, equitable, and sustainable access to safe drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene in developing countries, as described in section 136 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. Such strategy shall be complimentary to the United States foreign policy objectives of the safe water and sanitation strategy required under subsection
(a)and shall be transmitted to the appropriate congressional committees and made publicly available on the Internet. The strategy required under paragraph
(1)shall provide an ambitious vision for leadership of the international development objectives of this Act and the Senator Paul Simon Water for the World Act of 2013 and meet the following requirements: The strategy shall be consistent with the policy stated in section 3 of the Senator Paul Simon Water for the Poor Act of 2005 ( Public Law 109–121 ; 119 Stat. 2533; 22 U.S.C. 2152h note). The strategy shall identify low-income and lower-middle income countries with a severe lack of access to affordable, equitable, and sustainable safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene, by assessing— the government or nongovernmental organizational capacity or commitment to manage and implement affordable, equitable, and sustainable solutions, in accordance with section 6 of the Senator Paul Simon Water for the World Act of 2013; opportunities to leverage existing indigenous public sector, local, donor or private sector investments in the water, sanitation and water resource management sector; the number of people and percent of the population without access to an improved source of safe drinking water in or close to home, disaggregated by rural, peri-urban, or urban geographic location; the number of people and percent of the population without access to an improved source of sanitation in or close to home, disaggregated by rural, peri-urban, or urban geographic location; the mortality rate and number of deaths of children under 5 years old due to diarrhea; the mortality rate and number of deaths of children under 5 years old due to pneumonia; the number and proportion of children under 5 years old who are under-nourished; the average time burden of water collection in rural areas; the coexistence in a single geographic area of two or more diseases categorized as a neglected tropical disease spread in whole or in part due to lack of access to safe drinking water, sanitation or hygiene, as defined by the Agency; and the degree to which water, sanitation, and hygiene programs are identified as a priority by a beneficiary government, region, or community, as identified in national plans and strategies and the country-specific multiyear strategies as developed by the Agency mission in consultation with the national government and civil society. The strategy shall select 10 to 20 of the eligible countries identified through the assessment required by subparagraph
(B)and identify such countries as high priority countries . Each country selected as a high priority country shall be the focus of the Agency’s water, sanitation, and hygiene programming, and the strategy shall develop comprehensive and holistic individual country plans for each high priority country so as to meet the objectives of paragraph (1). Such plans shall include— a results framework, in accordance with the sustainability principles identified in section 6 of the Senator Paul Simon Water for the World Act of 2013, and monitoring and evaluation principles identified in section 7 of this Act, which shall include indicators composed of those criteria used in paragraph
(2)to identify high priority countries, that shall be used to measure the long-term impacts and sustainability of programs, including the ongoing commitment of host-country institutions, or lack thereof, and increased access to water, sanitation, and hygiene projects, programs and services provided directly or leveraged by the United States Government; and a clearly described process by which the strategy shall be aligned, coordinated, and leveraged with United States development strategies, policies, and international development initiatives that operate within the high priority country, to include coordination with and reflected in the high priority country’s comprehensive strategy for United States Government-supported development assistance. For each high priority country, the Agency’s mission director for such country shall— designate sustainably increasing access to safe drinking water and sanitation as a strategic objective, reflected in country-specific strategies that incorporate sustainable water management goals and targets in accordance with this Act; and ensure, where complimentary, that the benefits of safe drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene are reflected in other development initiatives. The Agency’s Water and Development Strategy, issued in May 2013, shall be deemed to be the initial strategy required under paragraph
(1)and shall be updated in a timely manner as required by paragraph (1). Not later than 90 days after the date of transmission of the initial strategy required under paragraph (1), the Global Water Coordinator shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees an implementation plan detailing how the United States Agency for International Development will institutionalize the strategy, including— the budget resources needed to achieve the goals, benchmarks, and timetables described in this subsection, and an assessment of what will likely be achieved at current funding levels; and the number, types, and levels of specialists and generalists currently employed, and projected to be needed, in each functional and geographic area, including support, management, and administrative functions, to carry out the strategy. In developing the strategy required under paragraph (1)), and the implementation plan required under paragraph (4), the Global Water Coordinator shall— consult with relevant Executive agencies; consult with the Special Advisor for Water Resources; consult with the Interagency Consultation and Coordination process as required by section 5(b) of the Paul Simon Water for the World Act of 2013; and consult with representatives of civil society and multi-lateral organizations with demonstrated experience in addressing the lack of access to affordable, equitable and sustainable safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene in developing countries. In carrying out paragraph (1)(D), the Global Water Coordinator shall allow public comments to be submitted for consideration through a mechanism of the Global Water Coordinator’s choosing, except that such comment period shall last not less than 45 days. In this section: The term Global Water Coordinator means the Global Water Coordinator designated under section 136(e) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. The term Special Advisor for Water Resources means the Special Advisor for Water Resources designated under section 136(f) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. .
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United States complimentary strategies to increase sustainable, affordable, and equitable access to safe water, sanitation, and hygiene
Pub. L.Pub. L. 109-121
Stat.119 Stat. 2533
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