cluding efforts to achieve emissions reductions and 
enhance net natural sequestration capacity associ-
ated with deforestation; 
(2) to enhance terrestrial ecosystem services; 
(3) to improve natural habitat for species; 
(4) to preserve culturally and ecologically 
unique forested lands, including forests containing 
rare, threatened, or endangered plant species; 
(5) to contribute to cooperative efforts to con-
serve and restore natural forests and other terres-
trial ecosystems that provide local, regional, and 
global environmental and health benefits; 
(6) to provide a counterbalance to investments 
from any country of concern in activities that utilize 
destructive industrial practices that degrade or de-
stroy natural forests and other terrestrial ecosystems 
in partner developing countries; and 
(7) to reduce illegal deforestation. 
(e) OUTCOME-ORIENTED ASSISTANCE.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—An eligible project shall 
qualify for outcome-oriented assistance under the 
Program if— 
(A) in the determination of the Secretary, 
the partner developing country or appropriate 
local partner will be able to fulfill its obligations 
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under a multi-year agreement described in sub-
section (d) in support of an eligible project 
through the Program, including (as applicable) 
with respect to— 
(i) standards of governance and re-
spect for rule of law in the partner devel-
oping country; 
(ii) environmental and social safe-
guards; and 
(iii) safeguarding against the potential 
for corruption or misuse of assistance pro-
vided under this section; 
(B) the eligible project is appropriately de-
signed to use outcome-oriented assistance; 
(C) the partner developing country or ap-
propriate local partner, as applicable, agrees— 
(i) to abide by transparency require-
ments with respect to the use of funds re-
ceived under the program established pur-
suant to subsection (a); 
(ii) to fulfill measuring, reporting, and 
verification requirements, including inde-
pendent third-party verification, necessary 
to provide outcome-oriented assistance; 
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(iii) to report publicly any data with 
respect to deforestation associated emis-
sions reductions achieved under such pro-
gram, in accordance with reporting re-
quirements of or commitments of a partner 
developing country under relevant inter-
national agreements; 
(iv) to ensure that women, indigenous 
communities, and other local stakeholders, 
as applicable, are empowered and enabled 
to meaningfully participate in the develop-
ment, implementation, and potential bene-
fits of the eligible project; and 
(v) to disclose any debt the applicant 
may owe to any entity known to be owned 
or controlled by a country of concern, in-
cluding loan amounts, duration, rates, and 
contractual provisions; 
(D) the eligible project enhances terrestrial 
ecosystems in a manner that can be verified 
and realizes outcomes that may contribute to 
meeting the relevant international commitments 
of the partner developing country; and 
(E) with respect to subparagraph (C)(v), 
the partner developing country or appropriate 
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local partner agrees that the assistance pro-
vided under this section may not be used to am-
ortize any loan principal owed to any entity 
known to be owned or controlled by the country 
of concern. 
(2) IMPACT OF INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES.— 
The presence of indigenous communities subsisting, 
and engaging in sustainable economic activities, on 
the lands of an eligible project shall not— 
(A) be infringed by activities conducted in 
association with an eligible project; or 
(B) impact the qualification of an eligible 
project. 
(3) ADDITIONAL ECONOMIC ACTIVITY.—Any ad-
ditional economic activity pursued on the lands of an 
eligible project may be permissible if such activities 
are carried out in accordance with the goals de-
scribed in subsection (d). 
(4) ADDITIONAL FORMS OF QUALIFICATION FOR 
OUTCOME-ORIENTED ASSISTANCE.—Notwithstanding 
paragraph (1), an eligible project may qualify for 
outcome-oriented assistance under this subsection 
if— 
(A) the eligible project includes a combina-
tion or aggregation of existing activities that 
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align with the goals described in subsection (d) 
such that the total of such projects contributes 
to the full national or, on an interim basis, sub-
national territory in the partner developing 
country; or 
(B) the eligible project is nested into the 
accounting and reporting of an existing national 
or sub-national program or activity in the part-
ner developing country, including with regard to 
safeguard requirements and any transfer of 
verifiable environmental credits that qualify for 
use or transfer under internationally recognized 
systems that may meet the international envi-
ronmental commitments of the partner devel-
oping country, without regard to whether the el-
igible project is below the subnational level or 
scale. 
(5) PRIVATE OR PARTNER COUNTRY CONTRIBU-
TION SUPPORT REQUIREMENT.— 
(A) IN
GENERAL.—Outcome-oriented as-
sistance shall only be granted to eligible 
projects that secure additional funding from 
sources other than the United States Govern-
ment in an amount that is not less than the 10 
percent of the amount determined to be pro-
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