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 106 STAT. 120 PUBLIC LAW 102-274—APR. 21, 1992 (C) support the expansion and strengthening of their activities without compromising their private and independent nature. (2) PVOS AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS. —While support from indigenous governments is crucial, sustainable development and food security in the Horn of Africa should be enhanced through the active participation of indigenous private and volimtary organizations, as well as international private and volimtary organizations, and international organizations that have demonstrated their ability to work as partners with local nongovernmental organizations and are committed to promoting local grassroots activities on behalf of long-term development and self-reliance in the Horn of Africa. (3) POLICY ON ASSISTANCE TO GOVERNMENTS. —United States assistance should not be provided to the Government of Ethiopia, the Government of Somalia, or the Government of Sudan until concrete steps toward peace, democracy, and human rights are taken in the respective country. (4) SUPPORT FOR PVOS.— Meanwhile, the United States should provide developmental assistance to those countries by supporting United States, indigenous, and international private and voluntary organizations working in those countries. Such assistance should be expanded as quickly as possible. (b) EXAMPLES OF PROGRAMS. — Assistance pursuant to this section should include programs to— (1) reforest and restore degraded natural areas and reestablish resource management programs; (2) reestabhsh veterinary services, local crop research, and agricultural development projects; ^ (3) provide basic education, including efforts to support the teaching of displaced children, and rebuild schools; (4) educate young people outside of their countries if conflict within their countries continues; (5) reconstitute and expand the deHvery of primary and maternal health care; and (6) establish credit, microenterprise, and income generation programs for the poor. (c) VOLUNTARY RELOCATION AND REPATRIATION.—Assistance pursuant to this section should also be targeted to the voluntary relocation and voluntary repatriation of displaced persons and refugees after peace has been achieved. Assistance pursuemt to this Act may not be made available for any costs associated with any program of involuntary or forced resettlement of persons. (d) DEBT RELIEF; INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR RECONSTRUCTION.— Developmental assistance for the Horn of Africa should be carried out in coordination with long-term strategies for debt relief of countries in the region and with emerging efforts to establish an international fund for reconstruction of developing countries which settle civil wars within their territories. (e) ASSISTANCE THROUGH PVOS AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZA- TIONS. — Unless a certification has been made with respect to that country under section 8, development assistance and assistance from the Development Fund for Africa for Ethiopia, Somalia, and Sudan shall be provided only through— (1) United States, international, and indigenous private and voluntary organizations (as the term "private and voluntary

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