oped under subsection (a)(2) through initiatives, in-
cluding— 
(A) the establishment of transparent, ac-
countable, and inclusive decisionmaking proc-
esses relating to all stakeholders (including af-
fected local communities); 
(B) the promotion of enhanced coordina-
tion among ministries and agencies responsible 
for agroecological zoning, mapping, land plan-
ning and permitting, sustainable agriculture, 
forestry, and law enforcement; and 
(C) the clarification of land tenure and re-
source rights of affected communities, including 
local communities and indigenous peoples; and 
(3) the development and support of institutional 
capacity to measure, verify, and report the activities 
carried out by the Government of Haiti to reduce de-
forestation and increase afforestation and reforest-
ation rates through the use of appropriate methods, 
including— 
(A) the use of best practices and tech-
nologies to monitor any change in the forest 
cover of Haiti; 
(B) the monitoring of the impacts of poli-
cies and initiatives on— 
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(i) affected communities; 
(ii) the biodiversity of the environment 
of Haiti; and 
(iii) the health of the tropical forests 
of Haiti; and 
(C) independent and participatory forest 
monitoring. 
(c) DEVELOPMENT OF PERFORMANCE METRICS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—If the Secretary provides as-
sistance under subsection (a)(1), in accordance with 
paragraph (2), the Secretary, in cooperation with 
the Government of Haiti and, if necessary, in con-
sultation with the Administrator, shall develop ap-
propriate performance metrics to measure, verify, 
and report— 
(A) the conduct of each policy and initia-
tive to be carried out by the Government of 
Haiti; 
(B) the results of each policy and initiative 
with respect to the tropical forests of Haiti; and 
(C) each impact of each policy and initia-
tive on the local communities and indigenous 
people of Haiti. 
(2) REQUIREMENTS.—Performance metrics de-
veloped under paragraph (1) shall, to the maximum 
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extent practicable, include short-term and long-term 
metrics to evaluate the implementation of each pol-
icy and initiative contained in each proposal devel-
oped under subsection (a)(2). 
(d) REPORTS.— 
(1) INITIAL
REPORT.—Not later than 18 
months after the date of enactment of this Act, the 
Secretary shall submit to the appropriate committees 
of Congress a report that describes the actions that 
the Secretary has taken, and plans to take— 
(A) to engage with the Government of 
Haiti, nongovernmental stakeholders, and pub-
lic and private nonprofit organizations to imple-
ment this section; and 
(B) to enter into agreements with the Gov-
ernment of Haiti under subsection (a)(1). 
(2) BIENNIAL
REPORTS.—Not later than 2 
years after the date on which the Secretary first pro-
vides assistance to the Government of Haiti under 
subsection (a)(1) and biennially thereafter, the Sec-
retary shall submit to Congress a report that de-
scribes the progress of the Government of Haiti in 
implementing each policy and initiative contained in 
the proposal submitted under subsection (a)(2). 
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(e) ADDITIONAL ASSISTANCE.—The Secretary may 
provide financial and other assistance to nongovernmental 
stakeholders to ensure— 
(1) the access by local communities and indige-
nous people to information relating to each policy 
and initiative to be carried out by the Government 
of Haiti through funds made available under sub-
section (a)(1); and 
(2) that the groups described in paragraph (1) 
have an appropriate opportunity to participate effec-
tively in the design, implementation, and inde-
pendent monitoring of each policy and initiative. 
(f) NONGOVERNMENTAL
ORGANIZATION.—At the 
election of the Government of Haiti, or on the determina-
tion of the Secretary, in cooperation with the Government 
of Haiti, the Government of Haiti may enter into an 
agreement with a private, nongovernmental conservation 
organization authorizing the organization to act on behalf 
of the Government of Haiti for the purposes of this sec-
tion. 
(g) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated such sums as are nec-
essary to carry out this section. 
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TITLE II—GRANTS FOR 
REFORESTATION 
SEC. 201. REFORESTATION GRANT PROGRAM. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary, in consulta-
tion with the Administrator, shall establish a grant pro-
gram to carry out the purposes of this Act, including re-
versing deforestation and improving reforestation and 
afforestation in Haiti. 
(b) GRANTS AUTHORIZED.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary is authorized 
to award grants and contracts to public and private 
nonprofit organizations to carry out projects that, in 
the aggregate, reverse deforestation and improve re-
forestation and afforestation. 
(2) MAXIMUM AMOUNT.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in 
subparagraph (B), the Secretary may not 
award a grant under this section in an amount 
greater than $1,000,000 per year. 
(B) 
EXCEPTION.—The 
Secretary 
may 
award a grant under this section in an amount 
greater than $1,000,000 per year if the Sec-
retary determines that the recipient of the 
grant has demonstrated success with respect to 
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a project that was the subject of a grant under 
this section. 
(3) DURATION.—The Secretary shall award 
grants under this section for a period not to exceed 
3 years. 
(c) USE OF FUNDS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Grants awarded pursuant to 
subsection (b) may be used for activities such as— 
(A) providing a financial incentive to pro-
tect trees; 
(B) providing hands-on management and 
oversight of replanting efforts; 
(C) focusing on sustainable income-gener-
ating growth; 
(D) providing seed money to start coopera-
tive reforestation and afforestation efforts and 
providing subsequent conditional funding for 
such efforts contingent upon required tree care 
and maintenance activities; 
(E) promoting widespread use of improved 
cooking stove technologies and the development 
of liquid biofuels, to the extent that neither re-
sults in the harvesting of tropical forest growth; 
and 
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(F) securing the involvement and commit-
ment of local communities and indigenous peo-
ples— 
(i) to protect tropical forests in exist-
ence as of the date of enactment of this 
Act; and 
(ii) to carry out afforestation and re-
forestation activities. 
(2) CONSISTENCY
WITH
PROPOSALS.—To the 
maximum extent practicable, a project carried out 
using grant funds shall support and be consistent 
with the proposal developed under section 101(a)(2) 
that is the subject of the project. 
(d) APPLICATION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—To be eligible for a grant 
under this section, an entity shall prepare and sub-
mit an application at such time, in such manner, 
and containing such information as the Secretary 
may reasonably require. 
(2) CONTENT.—Each application submitted 
under paragraph (1) shall include— 
(A) a description of the objectives to be at-
tained; 
(B) a description of the manner in which 
the grant funds will be used; 
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(C) a plan for evaluating the success of the 
project based on verifiable evidence; and 
(D) to the extent that the applicant in-
tends to use nonnative species in afforestation 
efforts, an explanation of the benefit of the use 
of nonnative species over native species. 
(3) PREFERENCE FOR CERTAIN PROJECTS.—In 
awarding grants under this section, the Secretary 
shall give preference to applicants that propose— 
(A) to develop market-based solutions to 
the difficulty of reforestation in Haiti, including 
the use of conditional cash transfers and similar 
financial incentives to protect reforestation ef-
forts; 
(B) to partner with local communities and 
cooperatives; and 
(C) to focus on efforts that build local ca-
pacity to sustain growth after the completion of 
the underlying grant project. 
(e) DISSEMINATION
OF INFORMATION.—The Sec-
retary shall collect and widely disseminate information 
about the effectiveness of the demonstration projects as-
sisted under this section. 
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(f) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated such sums as are nec-
essary to carry out this section. 
SEC. 202. FOREST PROTECTION GRANTS. 
Chapter 7 of part I of the Foreign Assistance Act 
of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2281 et seq.) is amended by inserting 
after section 466 the following new section: 
‘‘SEC. 467. PILOT PROGRAM FOR HAITI. 
‘‘(a) SUBMISSION OF LIST OF AREAS OF SEVERELY 
DEGRADED NATURAL RESOURCES.—The Administrator 
of the Agency for International Development, in coopera-
tion with nongovernmental conservation organizations, 
shall invite the Government of Haiti to submit a list of 
areas within the territory of Haiti in which tropical forests 
are seriously degraded or threatened. 
‘‘(b) REVIEW OF LIST.—The Administrator shall as-
sess the list submitted by the Government of Haiti under 
subsection (a) and shall seek to reach agreement with the 
Government of Haiti for the restoration and future sus-
tainable use of those areas. 
‘‘(c) GRANT PROGRAM.— 
‘‘(1) GRANTS
AUTHORIZED.—The Adminis-
trator of the Agency for International Development 
is authorized to make grants, in consultation with 
the International Forestry Division of the Depart-
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ment of Agriculture and on such terms and condi-
tions as may be necessary, to nongovernmental orga-
nizations for the purchase on the open market of 
discounted commercial debt of the Government of 
Haiti in exchange for commitments by the Govern-
ment of Haiti to restore tropical forests identified by 
the Government under subsection (a) or for commit-
ments to develop plans for sustainable use of such 
tropical forests. 
‘‘(2) MANAGEMENT OF PROTECTED AREAS.— 
Each recipient of a grant under this subsection shall 
participate in the ongoing management of the area 
or areas protected pursuant to such grant. 
‘‘(3) RETENTION
OF
PROCEEDS.—Notwith-
standing any other provision of law, a grantee (or 
any subgrantee) of the grants referred to in section 
(a) may retain, without deposit in the Treasury of 
the United States and without further appropriation 
by Congress, interest earned on the proceeds of any 
resulting debt-for-nature exchange pending the dis-
bursements of such proceeds and interest for ap-
proved program purposes, which may include the es-
tablishment of an endowment, the income of which 
is used for such purposes. 
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‘‘(d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated such sums as are nec-
essary to carry out this section.’’. 
Æ 
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