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and section 667 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, and title 
II of the Food for Peace Act (Public Law 83–480), may be used 
by USAID to employ up to 40 personal services contractors in 
the United States, notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
for the purpose of providing direct, interim support for new or 
expanded overseas programs and activities managed by the agency 
until permanent direct hire personnel are hired and trained: Pro-
vided, That not more than 15 of such contractors shall be assigned 
to any bureau or office: Provided further, That such funds appro-
priated to carry out title II of the Food for Peace Act (Public 
Law 83–480), may be made available only for personal services 
contractors assigned to the Office of Food for Peace. 
(h) SMALL BUSINESS.—In entering into multiple award indefi-
nite-quantity contracts with funds appropriated by this Act, USAID 
may provide an exception to the fair opportunity process for placing 
task orders under such contracts when the order is placed with 
any category of small or small disadvantaged business. 
(i) SENIOR FOREIGN SERVICE LIMITED APPOINTMENTS.—Individ-
uals hired pursuant to the authority provided by section 7059(o) 
of division F of Public Law 111–117 may be assigned to or support 
programs in Afghanistan or Pakistan with funds made available 
in this Act and prior Acts making appropriations for the Department 
of State, foreign operations, and related programs. 
GLOBAL HEALTH ACTIVITIES 
SEC. 7058. (a) IN GENERAL.—Funds appropriated by titles III 
and IV of this Act that are made available for bilateral assistance 
for child survival activities or disease programs including activities 
relating to research on, and the prevention, treatment and control 
of, HIV/AIDS may be made available notwithstanding any other 
provision of law except for provisions under the heading ‘‘Global 
Health Programs’’ and the United States Leadership Against HIV/ 
AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of 2003 (117 Stat. 711; 22 
U.S.C. 7601 et seq.), as amended: Provided, That of the funds 
appropriated under title III of this Act, not less than $575,000,000 
should be made available for family planning/reproductive health, 
including in areas where population growth threatens biodiversity 
or endangered species. 
(b) PANDEMIC RESPONSE.—If the President determines and 
reports to the Committees on Appropriations that a pandemic virus 
is efficient and sustained, severe, and is spreading internationally, 
any funds made available under titles III and IV in this Act and 
prior Acts making appropriations for the Department of State, 
foreign operations, and related programs may be made available 
to combat such virus: Provided, That funds made available pursuant 
to the authority of this subsection shall be subject to prior consulta-
tion with, and the regular notification procedures of, the Committees 
on Appropriations. 
(c) GLOBAL FUND.—(1) Of the funds appropriated by this Act 
that are available for a contribution to the Global Fund to Fight 
AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund), 10 percent should 
be withheld from obligation until the Secretary of State determines 
and reports to the Committees on Appropriations that— 
(A) the Global Fund is maintaining and implementing 
a policy of transparency, including the authority of the
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Global Fund Office of the Inspector General (OIG) to pub-
lish OIG reports on a public Web site; 
(B) the Global Fund is providing sufficient resources 
to maintain an independent OIG that— 
(i) reports directly to the Board of the Global Fund; 
(ii) maintains a mandate to conduct thorough 
investigations and programmatic audits, free from 
undue interference; and 
(iii) compiles regular, publicly published audits and 
investigations 
of 
financial, 
programmatic, 
and 
reporting aspects of the Global Fund, its grantees, 
recipients, sub-recipients, and Local Fund Agents; 
(C) the Global Fund maintains an effective whistle-
blower policy to protect whistleblowers from retaliation, 
including confidential procedures for reporting possible mis-
conduct or irregularities; and 
(D) the Global Fund is implementing the recommenda-
tions contained in the Consolidated Transformation Plan 
approved by the Board of the Global Fund on November 
21, 2011. 
(2) The withholding required by this subsection shall not 
be in addition to funds that are withheld from the Global 
Fund in fiscal year 2014 pursuant to the application of any 
other provision contained in this or any other Act. 
GENDER EQUALITY 
SEC. 7059. (a) GENDER EQUALITY.—Funds appropriated by this 
Act shall be made available to promote gender equality in United 
States Government diplomatic and development efforts by raising 
the status, increasing the participation, and protecting the rights 
of women and girls worldwide. 
(b) WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP.—Of the funds appropriated by title 
III of this Act, not less than $50,000,000 shall be made available 
to increase leadership opportunities for women in countries where 
women and girls suffer discrimination due to law, policy, or practice, 
by strengthening protections for women’s political status, expanding 
women’s participation in political parties and elections, and 
increasing women’s opportunities for leadership positions in the 
public and private sectors at the local, provincial, and national 
levels. 
(c) GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE.— 
(1)(A) Of the funds appropriated by titles III and IV of 
this Act, not less than $150,000,000 should be made available 
to implement a multi-year strategy to prevent and respond 
to gender-based violence in countries where it is common in 
conflict and non-conflict settings. 
(B) Funds appropriated by titles III and IV of this Act 
that are available to train foreign police, judicial, and military 
personnel, including for international peacekeeping operations, 
shall address, where appropriate, prevention and response to 
gender-based violence and trafficking in persons, and shall 
promote the integration of women into the police and other 
security forces. 
(2) Department of State and USAID gender programs shall 
incorporate coordinated efforts to combat a variety of forms 
of gender-based violence, including child marriage, rape, female
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genital cutting and mutilation, and domestic violence, among 
other forms of gender-based violence in conflict and non-conflict 
settings. 
(d) WOMEN, PEACE, AND SECURITY.—Funds appropriated by 
this Act under the headings ‘‘Development Assistance’’, ‘‘Economic 
Support Fund’’, and ‘‘International Narcotics Control and Law 
Enforcement’’ should be made available to support a multi-year 
strategy to expand, and improve coordination of, United States 
Government efforts to empower women as equal partners in conflict 
prevention, peace building, transitional processes, and reconstruc-
tion efforts in countries affected by conflict or in political transition, 
and to ensure the equitable provision of relief and recovery assist-
ance to women and girls. 
SECTOR ALLOCATIONS 
SEC. 7060. (a) BASIC AND HIGHER EDUCATION.— 
(1) BASIC EDUCATION.— 
(A) Of the funds appropriated by title III of this Act, 
not less than $800,000,000 shall be made available for 
assistance for basic education. 
(B) The United States Agency for International 
Development shall ensure that programs supported with 
funds appropriated for basic education in this Act and 
prior Acts making appropriations for the Department of 
State, foreign operations, and related programs are 
integrated, when appropriate, with health, agriculture, 
governance, and economic development activities to address 
the economic and social needs of the broader community. 
(C) Funds appropriated by title III of this Act for 
basic education may be made available for a contribution 
to multilateral partnerships that support education. 
(2) HIGHER EDUCATION.—Of the funds appropriated by title 
III of this Act, not less than $225,000,000 shall be made avail-
able for assistance for higher education, of which not less 
than $25,000,000 shall be to support such programs in Africa, 
including for partnerships between higher education institu-
tions in Africa and the United States. 
(b) DEVELOPMENT GRANTS PROGRAM.—Of the funds appro-
priated in title III of this Act, not less than $45,000,000 shall 
be made available for the Development Grants Program established 
pursuant to section 674 of the Department of State, Foreign Oper-
ations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2008 (division 
J of Public Law 110–161), primarily for unsolicited proposals for 
activities within all sectors, to support grants of not more than 
$2,000,000 to small nongovernmental organizations, universities, 
and other small entities: Provided, That funds made available under 
this subsection shall remain available until September 30, 2016, 
and are in addition to other funds available for such purposes. 
(c) ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Of the funds appropriated by this Act, 
not less than $1,153,500,000 should be made available for 
environment programs. 
(2) CLEAN ENERGY.—The limitation in section 7081(b) of 
division F of Public Law 111–117 shall continue in effect during 
fiscal year 2014 as if part of this Act: Provided, That the 
proviso contained in such section shall not apply.
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(3) ADAPTATION AND MITIGATION.—Funds appropriated by 
this Act may be made available for United States contributions 
to multilateral environmental funds to support adaptation and 
mitigation programs and activities. 
(4) SUSTAINABLE LANDSCAPES AND BIODIVERSITY.—Of the 
funds appropriated under title III of this Act, not less than 
$123,500,000 shall be made available for sustainable landscapes 
programs and, in addition, not less than $212,500,000 shall 
be made available to protect biodiversity, and shall not be 
used to support or promote the expansion of industrial scale 
logging or any other industrial scale extractive activity into 
areas that were primary/intact tropical forest as of December 
30, 2013: Provided, That funds made available for the Central 
African Regional Program for the Environment and other trop-
ical forest programs in the Congo Basin for the United States 
Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) shall be apportioned directly 
to the USFWS: Provided further, That funds made available 
for the Department of the Interior (DOI) for programs in the 
Mayan Biosphere Reserve shall be apportioned directly to the 
DOI: Provided further, That such funds shall also support pro-
grams to protect great apes and other endangered species. 
(5) WILDLIFE POACHING AND TRAFFICKING.— 
(A) Not less than $45,000,000 of the funds appropriated 
under titles III and IV of this Act shall be made available 
to combat the transnational threat of wildlife poaching 
and trafficking. 
(B) None of the funds appropriated under title IV of 
this Act may be made available for training or other assist-
ance for any military unit or personnel that the Secretary 
of State determines has been credibly alleged to have 
participated in wildlife poaching or trafficking, unless the 
Secretary reports to the Committees on Appropriations that 
to do so is in the national security interests of the United 
States. 
(6) AUTHORITY.—Funds appropriated by this Act to carry 
out the provisions of sections 103 through 106, and chapter 
4 of part II, of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 may be 
used, notwithstanding any other provision of law except for 
the provisions of this subsection and subject to the regular 
notification procedures of the Committees on Appropriations, 
to support environment programs. 
(7) EXTRACTION OF NATURAL RESOURCES.— 
(A) Funds appropriated by this Act shall be made 
available to promote and support transparency and 
accountability of expenditures and revenues related to the 
extraction of natural resources, including by strengthening 
implementation and monitoring of the Extractive Industries 
Transparency Initiative, implementing and enforcing sec-
tion 8204 of Public Law 110–246 and to prevent the sale 
of conflict diamonds, and provide technical assistance to 
promote independent audit mechanisms and support civil 
society participation in natural resource management. 
(B)(i) The Secretary of the Treasury shall inform the 
managements of the international financial institutions and 
post on the Department of the Treasury’s Web site that 
it is the policy of the United States to vote against any 
assistance by such institutions (including but not limited