text: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
  
      This Act may be cited as the ``African Development Foundation Act 
  of 2006''.
  
  SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
  
      Congress finds the following:
              (1) The African Development Foundation is uniquely 
          promoting sustainable community-based solutions to economic and 
          social development and is effectively supporting the 
          development of African-owned small enterprises as engines of 
          growth and sources of income and employment for the poor.
              (2) The African Development Foundation's programs advance 
          United States interests in Africa and are in high demand across 
          the continent, as evidenced by $20 million in host country 
          contributions.
              (3) The Office of Management and Budget has determined the 
          African Development Foundation to be a fully effective agency 
          after assessing its program performance.
              (4) The African Development Foundation is the only United 
          States Government agency working directly at the grassroots 
          level, supporting African-designed and African-driven solutions 
          to economic and social problems. The African Development 
          Foundation enables individuals and groups to get out of poverty 
          by putting their own ideas to work, instead of someone else's.
              (5) In 2005, African Development Foundation investments 
          across Africa created more than 110,000 jobs for poor Africans 
          and generated $70 million in gross revenues for enterprises. 
          Almost 65 percent of micro and small entrepreneurs assisted by 
          the African Development Foundation were women.
              (6) African Development Foundation-assisted groups had $35 
          million in export sales in 2005. For example, in Tanzania, the 
          African Development Foundation is helping several thousand 
          small sugar cane producers improve their income. Mtibwa Sugar 
          has increased its gross export revenues by 423 percent over the 
          past three years, from US$1.188 million during fiscal year 2002 
          to US$5.034 million in fiscal year 2005. In the Ruembe 
          Outgrowers Association, sugar cane yields per hectare are up 30 
          percent and cumulative export sales stand at US$4.7 million. 
          The number of participating cane farmers has increased by 50 
          percent since project inception and the income of the 1440 
          growers has almost doubled as a consequence of investment by 
          the African Development Foundation.
              (7) The African Development Foundation is supporting 
          African solutions to prevent HIV/AIDS and to reduce its impact 
          on families and communities. For example, in Swaziland, where 
          almost 40 percent of adults are infected with the AIDS virus, 
          the African Development Foundation is improving nutrition and 
          providing income-generating opportunities for widows and 
          orphans by helping them produce and market vegetables, in 
          Ghana, the African Development Foundation funded the training 
          of almost 1500 youth who conducted peer counseling on HIV/AIDS 
          to more than 200,000 young people, in Plateau State, Nigeria, 
          the African Development Foundation funded a pilot program to 
          adapt and extend a faith-based life skills training program in 
          the public secondary schools in which approximately 500 
          teachers were trained in the new curriculum and more than 
          25,000 students received year-long training, and in Tanzania, 
          the African Development Foundation has experimented with 
          supporting schemes that extend micro-credit to people living 
          with HIV/AIDS, enabling them to start informal businesses and 
          undertake income-generating activities.
              (8) The work of the African Development Foundation is a 
          powerful example of the goodwill of the American people, and it 
          is one of the most effective foreign assistance programs of the 
          United States.
  
  SEC. 3. AMENDMENTS TO AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ACT.
  
      (a) Redesignation.--
              (1) In general.--Section 503(a) of the African Development 
          Foundation Act (Public Law 96-533; 22 U.S.C. 290h-1(a)) is 
          amended by striking ```African Development Foundation''' and 
          inserting ```United States African Development Foundation'''.
              (2) Reference.--Any reference to the African Development 
          Foundation in any law, rule, regulation, certificate, 
          directive, instruction, or other official paper in force on the 
          date of the enactment of this Act shall be deemed to be a 
          reference to the United States African Development Foundation.
      (b) Funding for Grants and Loans.--
              (1) Limitation.--Subsection (a) of section 505 of such Act 
          (22 U.S.C. 290h-3) is amended--
                      (A) in paragraph (1), by inserting ``(including 
                  small enterprises, producer associations, and 
                  cooperatives)'' after ``entity''; and
                      (B) in paragraph (2)--
                              (i) by striking ``The total'' and inserting 
                          ``Except as provided in this paragraph, the 
                          total'';
                              (ii) by striking ``$250,000'' and inserting 
                          ``$400,000''; and
                              (iii) by adding at the end the following 
                          new sentence: ``The funding limitation 
                          specified in this paragraph may be exceeded 
                          only in exceptional circumstances upon approval 
                          of the Board of the Directors and notification 
                          to Congress.''.
              (2) Use of funds.--Subsection (b) of such section is 
          amended, in the second sentence, by inserting before the period 
          at the end the following: ``, including supporting projects 
          which benefit the poor''.
              (3) Recipients.--Such section is amended by adding at the 
          end the following new subsection:
      ``(c) To be eligible to receive grant, loan, or loan guarantee 
  under this section, a small enterprise referred to in subsection (a) 
  shall satisfy the following requirements:
              ``(1) Ownership is predominantly vested in one or more 
          individuals who are indigenous to Africa and who are 
          representative and knowledgeable of, and with a track record of 
          responding to, the needs and aspirations of the poor.
              ``(2) Management and daily business operations of the 
          entity are controlled by one or more individuals who are 
          indigenous to Africa.''.
      (c) Powers of the Foundation.--Section 506(a)(5) of such Act (22 
  U.S.C. 290h-4(a)) is amended by inserting ``including providing 
  technical assistance to eligible recipients described in section 
  505(a)(1),'' after ``situated,''.
      (d) Basic Pay and Hiring Authorities.--Subsection (d) of section 
  507 of such Act (22 U.S.C. 290h-5) is amended--
              (1) in paragraph (1), in the second sentence, by striking 
          ``level IV of the Executive Schedule under section 5315 of 
          title 5'' and inserting ``level II of the Executive Schedule 
          under section 5313 of title 5, United States Code'';
              (2) in paragraph (2), by adding at the end the following 
          new sentence: ``Such experts and consultants may be employed 
          without regard to section 5373 of such title.''; and
              (3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
              ``(3) Of the individuals employed by the Foundation, not to 
          exceed four such individuals may be appointed, compensated, or 
          removed without regard to the civil service laws and 
          regulations. No individual appointed may receive a rate of pay 
          that exceeds the rate for senior level positions under section 
          5376 of title 5, United States Code. An employee of an agency 
          serving in a career, career conditional, or non-temporary 
          excepted service position who is appointed by the Foundation 
          shall be entitled, on termination of such appointment for any 
          reason other than for the misconduct or delinquence of such 
          employee, to be reinstated in such employee's former position 
          or a position of similar seniority and pay in the same 
          agency.''.
target: African Development Foundation Act of 2006 - Amends the the African Development Foundation Act to redesignate the African Development Foundation as the United States African Development Foundation.
  
  Specifies that small enterprises, producer associations, and cooperatives are eligible for Foundation assistance grants, loans, and loan guarantee assistance.
  
  Increases the project assistance ceiling and permits such amount to be exceeded in exceptional circumstances upon Board of Directors approval and congressional notification.
  
  Requires a small enterprise to have its ownership and management and daily business operations vested in one or more individuals who are indigenous to Africa in order to qualify for Foundation assistance.
  
  Authorizes the Foundation to provide eligible recipients with technical assistance.
  
  Revises specified salary and hiring provisions.
feat_title: To amend the African Development Foundation Act to redesignate the name of the Foundation, to increase funding for the mission of the Foundation, and to increase the powers of the Foundation.