PUBLIC LAW 106-200—MAY 18, 2000 114 STAT. 273 (H) Ensuring sustainable economic growth through environmental protection. (4) The African Development Foundation has a unique congressional mandate to empower the poor to participate fully in development and to increase opportunities for gainful employment, poverty alleviation, and more equitable income distribution in sub-Saharan Africa. The African Development Foundation has worked successfully to enhance the role of women as agents of change, strengthen the informal sector with an emphasis on supporting micro and small sized enterprises, indigenous technologies, and mobilizing local financing. The African Development Foundation should develop and implement strategies for promoting participation in the socioeconomic development process of grassroots and informal sector groups such as nongovernmental organizations, cooperatives, artisans, and traders into the programs and initiatives established under this title, (c) ADDITIONAL AUTHORITIES.— (1) IN GENERAL.—Section 496(h) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2293(h)) is amended— (A) by redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph (4); and (B) by inserting after paragraph (2) the following: "(3) DEMOCRATIZATION AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION CAPABILI- TIES.— Assistance under this section may also include program assistance— "(A) to promote democratization, good governance, and strong civil societies in sub-Saharan Africa; and "(B) to strengthen conflict resolution capabilities of governmental, intergovernmental, and nongovernmental entities in sub-Saharan Africa.". (2) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 496(h)(4) of such Act, as amended by paragraph (1), is further amended by striking "paragraphs (1) and (2)" in the first sentence and inserting "paragraphs (1), (2), and (3)". SEC. 128. ASSISTANCE FROM UNITED STATES PRIVATE SECTOR TO 19 USC 3738. PREVENT AND REDUCE HIV/AIDS IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA. It is the sense of the Congress that United States businesses should be encouraged to provide assistance to sub-Saharan African countries to prevent and reduce the incidence of HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. In providing such assistance, United States businesses should be encouraged to consider the establishment of an HIV/AIDS Response Fund in order to provide for coordination among such businesses in the collection and distribution of the assistance to sub-Saharan African countries. SEC. 129. SENSE OF THE CONGRESS RELATING TO HIV/AIDS CRISIS 19 USC 3739. IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA. (a) FINDINGS. —The Congress finds the following: (1) Sustained economic development in sub-Saharan Africa depends in large measure upon successful trade with and foreign assistance to the countries of sub-Saharan Africa. (2) The HIV/AIDS crisis has reached epidemic proportions in sub-Saharan Africa, where more than 21,000,000 men, women, and children are infected with HIV.
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