(A) the term ‘‘high priority country’’ 
means a country designated pursuant to section 
6 of the Senator Paul Simon Water for the 
Poor Act of 2005; and 
(B) the term ‘‘local entity’’ means an indi-
vidual, corporation, or other entity that— 
(i) is organized under the laws of the 
high priority country; 
(ii) has its principal place of business 
or operations in such country; and 
(iii) is owned or controlled by citizens 
of such country. 
(5) FUNDING.—Funds made available to carry 
out the Senator Paul Simon Water for the Poor Act 
of 2005 for any fiscal year are authorized to be 
made available to carry out this subsection. 
(d) RETENTION OF INTEREST.— 
(1) AUTHORITY.—In providing assistance under 
the authorities of section 136 of the Foreign Assist-
ance Act of 1961, as redesignated and amended by 
section 4 of this Act, the Administrator of the 
United States Agency for International Development 
is authorized to enter into agreements with indige-
nous local private or public groups, associations, or 
other entities in high priority countries to provide 
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for the retention by such group, association, or other 
entity, without deposit in the Treasury of the United 
States and without further appropriation by law, of 
interest earned on such assistance so provided. 
(2) LIMITATION.—An agreement described in 
paragraph (1) may not have a value that exceeds 
$5,000,000. 
(3) USE OF INTEREST.—Any interest earned on 
the advance of funds under an agreement authorized 
under paragraph (1) may be used only for the pur-
poses for which the agreement is made. 
(4) AUDITS.—The Administrator shall, on a 
regular and recurring basis, audit interest earned on 
advance funds under an agreement authorized under 
paragraph (1) to ensure that the requirements of 
paragraph (3) are met. 
(5) DEFINITION.—In this subsection, the term 
‘‘high priority country’’ means a country designated 
pursuant to section 6 of the Senator Paul Simon 
Water for the Poor Act of 2005. 
SEC. 6. SAFE WATER, SANITATION, AND HYGIENE STRAT-
EGY. 
Section 6 of the Senator Paul Simon Water for the 
Poor Act of 2005 (22 U.S.C. 2152h note) is amended— 
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(1) in the section heading, by striking ‘‘AND 
SANITATION’’ and inserting ‘‘, SANITATION, AND 
HYGIENE’’; 
(2) in subsection (a)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘Secretary of State’’ and 
inserting ‘‘Administrator of the United States 
Agency for International Development’’; 
(B) by striking ‘‘shall develop a strategy’’ 
and inserting ‘‘shall, not later than January 1, 
2013, and every four years thereafter, develop 
a strategy for the next four years’’; 
(C) by striking ‘‘and sanitation’’ and in-
serting ‘‘, sanitation, and hygiene’’; and 
(D) by striking ‘‘section 135 of the For-
eign Assistance Act of 1961, as added by sec-
tion 5(a) of this Act’’ and inserting ‘‘section 
136 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as 
amended by the Senator Paul Simon Water for 
the World Act of 2012’’; 
(3) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘Adminis-
trator of the United States Agency for International 
Development’’ and inserting ‘‘Secretary of State’’; 
(4) in subsection (c), by striking ‘‘Secretary of 
State’’ and inserting ‘‘President’’; 
(5) in subsection (e)— 
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(A) by striking ‘‘and sanitation’’ each place 
it appears and inserting ‘‘, sanitation, and hy-
giene’’; 
(B) in paragraph (5), by striking ‘‘and’’ at 
the end; 
(C) in paragraph (6), by striking the pe-
riod at the end and inserting a semicolon; and 
(D) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(7) 
best 
practices 
for 
mobilizing 
and 
leveraging the financial and technical capacity of 
multilateral institutions, business, local governments, 
nongovernmental organizations, and civil society in 
forming public-private partnerships that measurably 
increase access to safe and affordable drinking 
water, sanitation, and hygiene; 
‘‘(8) the number, types, and level 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; and 
‘‘(9) the assumptions regarding program and 
policy priorities and budget levels on which the 
strategy is based.’’; 
(6) in subsection (f) to read as follows: 
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‘‘(f) DESIGNATION
OF
HIGH
PRIORITY
COUN-
TRIES.— 
‘‘(1) DESIGNATION.—The strategy required by 
subsection (a) shall further include the designation 
of high priority countries for assistance under sec-
tion 136 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as 
amended by the Senator Paul Simon Water for the 
World Act of 2012. 
‘‘(2) CRITERIA.—Each designation of a high 
priority country described in paragraph (1) shall be 
made on the basis of— 
‘‘(A) countries and communities in coun-
tries in which the need for increased access to 
safe water, sanitation, and hygiene is greatest; 
and 
‘‘(B) countries and communities in coun-
tries in which assistance under such section can 
be expected to make the greatest difference in 
promoting good health, economic development, 
poverty reduction, women’s empowerment, con-
flict prevention, and environmental sustain-
ability. 
‘‘(3) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of 
Congress that each designation of a high priority 
country described in paragraph (1) should conform 
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to the goals and objectives in the country’s multi- 
year development strategy.’’; 
(7) by striking subsection (g); and 
(8) by inserting after subsection (f) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(g) ACTIONS WITH RESPECT TO HIGH PRIORITY 
COUNTRIES.—For each country that is designated as a 
high priority country, the United States Agency for Inter-
national Development’s Mission Director for such country 
shall— 
‘‘(1) designate sustainably increasing access to 
safe drinking water and sanitation as a strategic ob-
jective, reflected in country-specific strategies that 
incorporate sustainable water management goals and 
targets; and 
‘‘(2) integrate, where appropriate, investments 
in water, sanitation, and hygiene with investments in 
food security, global health, environment and sus-
tainable water management, education, and gender 
equality.’’. 
SEC. 7. TRANSPARENCY AND MONITORING AND EVALUA-
TION. 
Section 7 of the Senator Paul Simon Water for the 
Poor Act of 2005 (22 U.S.C. 2152h note) is amended by 
striking section 7 and inserting the following: 
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‘‘SEC. 7. TRANSPARENCY AND MONITORING AND EVALUA-
TION. 
‘‘(a) TRANSPARENCY.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after 
the date of the enactment of the Senator Paul 
Simon Water for the World Act of 2012, the Admin-
istrator of the United States Agency for Inter-
national Development shall, as part of the Agency’s 
Internet Website, establish and maintain a Webpage 
to make publicly available comprehensive, timely, 
comparable, and accessible information on United 
States water, sanitation, and hygiene foreign assist-
ance programs. The head of each Federal depart-
ment or agency that administers such programs 
shall on a regular basis publish and update on the 
Webpage such information with respect to programs 
of the department or agency. 
‘‘(2) MATTERS TO BE INCLUDED.— 
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—To ensure trans-
parency, accountability, and effectiveness of 
United States water, sanitation, and hygiene 
foreign assistance programs, the information re-
quired by paragraph (1) shall include— 
‘‘(i) the strategy required by section 
6; 
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‘‘(ii) the multi-year development strat-
egy of each developing country under sec-
tion 6(a); 
‘‘(iii) an identification of each country 
designated as a high priority country 
under section 6(f), including a fully articu-
lated rationale of why the country received 
the designation; 
‘‘(iv) a summary of the guidelines and 
procedures as required by section 5(b) of 
the Senator Paul Simon Water for the 
World Act of 2012; 
‘‘(v) for each fiscal year, information 
on the amount of funds expended in each 
country or program, disaggregated by pur-
pose of assistance, including information 
on capital investments, and the source of 
such funds by account; and 
‘‘(vi) evaluations of water, sanitation, 
and hygiene programs, if any. 
‘‘(B) POSTING REQUIREMENTS.—Such in-
formation shall be published on the Webpage 
not later than 30 days after the date of 
issuance of the information and shall be con-
tinuously updated. 
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‘‘(C) REPORT IN LIEU OF INCLUSION.—If 
the head of a Federal department or agency de-
scribed in paragraph (1) makes a determination 
that the inclusion of a required item of informa-
tion on the Webpage would jeopardize the 
health or security of an implementing partner 
or program beneficiary or would be detrimental 
to the national interests of the United States, 
such item of information may be submitted to 
Congress in a written report in lieu of including 
it on the Webpage, along with the reasons for 
not including it on the Webpage. 
‘‘(3) DATABASE.—The Webpage shall also con-
tain a link to a searchable database available to the 
public containing such information relating to the 
current fiscal year and, as available, for each prior 
fiscal year dating to and including fiscal year 2006. 
‘‘(4) FORM.—Such information shall be pub-
lished on the Webpage in unclassified form. Any in-
formation determined to be classified information 
may be submitted to Congress in classified form and 
an unclassified summary of such information shall 
be published on the Webpage. 
‘‘(b) MONITORING AND EVALUATION.— 
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‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The head of each Federal 
department or agency that administers United 
States water, sanitation, and hygiene foreign assist-
ance programs shall monitor and evaluate projects 
and activities carried out under such programs, in-
cluding carrying out assessments of impact where 
appropriate, and ensuring results of evaluations are 
used to inform the design of such projects and ac-
tivities. Such monitoring and evaluations shall be 
carried our in accordance with the principles de-
scribed in section 5(a) of the Senator Paul Simon 
Water for the World Act of 2012. 
‘‘(2) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection: 
‘‘(A) 
MONITORING.—The 
term 
‘moni-
toring’ means, with respect to a United States 
water, sanitation, or hygiene foreign assistance 
program, a continuing function that uses sys-
tematic collection of data on specified indicators 
to provide management and the main stake-
holders of an ongoing development intervention 
with indications of the extent of progress and 
achievement of objectives and progress in the 
use of allocated funds. 
‘‘(B) EVALUATION.—The term ‘evaluation’ 
means, with respect to a United States water, 
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sanitation, or hygiene foreign assistance pro-
gram, the systematic collection and analysis of 
information about the characteristics and out-
comes of the program and projects under the 
program as a basis for judgments, to improve 
effectiveness, and to inform decisions about cur-
rent and future programming, including an ex-
planation of the reasons for or causes of the ob-
served results.’’. 
SEC. 8. REPORT ON CAPACITY AND EXPERTISE. 
Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States 
shall submit to Congress a report assessing the capacity 
of United States Government to carry out and fully imple-
ment this Act, the Senator Paul Simon Water for the Poor 
Act of 2005 (Public Law 109–121), as amended by this 
Act, and section 136 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 
1961, as amended by this Act. Such assessment shall give 
special focus to— 
(1) evaluating the sufficiency of training pro-
grams at both the bureau and mission levels as they 
relate to providing long-term, sustainable access to 
water, sanitation, and hygiene; 
(2) identifying overall levels of staff expertise 
on water, sanitation, and hygiene development as-
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