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promote the integration of women into the police and other 
security forces. 
(2) Department of State and United States Agency for 
International Development gender programs shall incorporate 
coordinated efforts to combat a variety of forms of gender- 
based violence, including child marriage, rape, female genital 
cutting and mutilation, and domestic violence, among other 
forms of gender-based violence in conflict and non-conflict set-
tings. 
(d) WOMEN, PEACE, AND SECURITY.—Funds appropriated by 
this Act under the headings ‘‘Development Assistance’’, ‘‘Economic 
Support Fund’’, ‘‘Assistance for Europe, Eurasia and Central Asia’’, 
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 reconstruction efforts in coun-
tries affected by conflict or in political transition, and to ensure 
the equitable provision of relief and recovery assistance to women 
and girls. 
(e) WOMEN AND GIRLS AT RISK FROM EXTREMISM.— 
(1) ASSISTANCE.—Of the funds appropriated by this Act 
under the heading ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’, not less than 
$15,000,000 shall be made available to support women and 
girls who are at risk from extremism and conflict, and for 
activities to— 
(A) empower women and girls to counter extremism; 
(B) address the needs of women and girls adversely 
impacted by extremism and conflict; 
(C) document crimes committed by extremists against 
women and girls, and support investigations and prosecu-
tions of such crimes, as appropriate; 
(D) increase the participation and influence of women 
in formal and informal political processes and institutions 
at the local level and within traditional governing struc-
tures; 
(E) support reconciliation programs between impacted 
minority, religious, and ethnic groups and the broader 
community; 
(F) develop and implement legal reforms and protec-
tions for women and girls at the national and local govern-
ment levels; and 
(G) create and sustain networks for women and girls 
to collectively safeguard their rights on a regional basis. 
(2) CLARIFICATION AND NOTIFICATION.—Funds made avail-
able pursuant to paragraph (1)— 
(A) are in addition to amounts otherwise available 
by this Act for such purposes; and 
(B) shall be made available following consultation with, 
and subject to the regular notification procedures of, the 
Committees on Appropriations. 
SECTOR ALLOCATIONS 
SEC. 7060. (a) BASIC EDUCATION AND HIGHER EDUCATION.— 
(1) BASIC EDUCATION.—
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(A) Of the funds appropriated under title III of this 
Act, not less than $800,000,000 shall be made available 
for assistance for basic education, and such funds may 
be made available notwithstanding any other provision of 
law that restricts assistance to foreign countries: Provided, 
That such funds should be used to implement the objectives 
of basic education programs for each Country Development 
Cooperation Strategy or similar strategy regarding basic 
education established by the United States Agency for 
International Development: Provided further, That such 
funds may also be used for secondary education activities: 
Provided further, That the USAID Administrator, following 
consultation with the Committees on Appropriations, may 
reprogram such funds between countries. 
(B) Not later than 30 days after enactment of this 
Act, the USAID Administrator shall report to the Commit-
tees on Appropriations on the status of cumulative unobli-
gated balances and obligated, but unexpended, balances 
in each country where USAID provides basic education 
assistance and such report shall also include details on 
the types of contracts and grants provided and the goals 
and objectives of such assistance: Provided, That the 
USAID Administrator shall update such report on a quar-
terly basis until September 30, 2019: Provided further, 
That if the USAID Administrator determines that any 
unobligated balances of funds specifically designated for 
assistance for basic education in prior Acts making appro-
priations for the Department of State, foreign operations, 
and related programs are in excess of the absorptive 
capacity of recipient countries, such funds may be made 
available for other programs authorized under chapter 1 
of part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, notwith-
standing such funding designation: Provided further, That 
the authority of the previous proviso shall be subject to 
prior consultation with, and the regular notification proce-
dures of, the Committees on Appropriations. 
(C) Of the funds appropriated under title III of this 
Act for assistance for basic education programs, not less 
than $87,500,000 shall 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 $235,000,000 shall be made avail-
able for assistance for higher education: Provided, That such 
funds may be made available notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law that restricts assistance to foreign countries, and 
shall be subject to the regular notification procedures of the 
Committees on Appropriations: Provided further, That of such 
amount, not less than $35,000,000 shall be made available 
for human and institutional capacity building partnerships 
between higher education institutions in the United States 
and developing countries, of which not less than $15,000,000 
shall be for new partnerships which should be competed and 
awarded not later than one year after enactment of this Act: 
Provided further, That not later than 45 days after enactment 
of this Act, the USAID Administrator shall consult with the 
Committees on Appropriations on the proposed uses of funds 
for such partnerships.
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(b) DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS.—Of the funds appropriated by 
this Act under the heading ‘‘Development Assistance’’, not less 
than $28,000,000 shall be made available for the American Schools 
and Hospitals Abroad program, and not less than $12,000,000 shall 
be made available for cooperative development programs of USAID. 
(c) ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMS.— 
(1) AUTHORITY AND NOTIFICATION.— 
(A) 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, to support environment 
programs. 
(B) Funds made available pursuant to this subsection 
shall be subject to the regular notification procedures of 
the Committees on Appropriations. 
(C) None of the funds in this Act are appropriated 
or otherwise made available for a contribution, grant, or 
any other payment for the Green Climate Fund. 
(2) CONSERVATION PROGRAMS AND LIMITATIONS.— 
(A) Of the funds appropriated under title III of this 
Act, not less than $269,000,000 shall be made available 
for biodiversity conservation programs. 
(B) Not less than $90,664,000 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. 
(C) 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 appropriate congressional commit-
tees that to do so is in the national security interest of 
the United States. 
(D) Funds appropriated by this Act for biodiversity 
programs shall not be used to support the expansion of 
industrial scale logging or any other industrial scale extrac-
tive activity into areas that were primary/intact tropical 
forests as of December 30, 2013, and the Secretary of 
the Treasury shall instruct the United States executive 
directors of each international financial institutions (IFI) 
to vote against any financing of any such activity. 
(3) LARGE
DAMS.—The Secretary of the Treasury shall 
instruct the United States executive director of each IFI that 
it is the policy of the United States to vote in relation to 
any loan, grant, strategy, or policy of such institution to support 
the construction of any large dam consistent with the criteria 
set forth in Senate Report 114–79, while also considering 
whether the project involves important foreign policy objectives. 
(4) SUSTAINABLE LANDSCAPES.—Of the funds appropriated 
under title III of this Act, not less than $123,500,000 shall 
be made available for sustainable landscapes programs. 
(d) FOOD SECURITY AND AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT.—Of the 
funds appropriated by title III of this Act, not less than 
$1,000,600,000 shall be made available for food security and agricul-
tural development programs to carry out the purposes of the Global
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Food Security Act of 2016 (Public Law 114–195), of which not 
less than $315,960,000 shall be made available for the Bureau 
for Food Security, USAID, including not less than $55,000,000 
for the Feed the Future Innovation Labs: Provided, That funds 
may be made available for a contribution as authorized by section 
3202 of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (Public 
Law 110–246), as amended by section 3206 of the Agricultural 
Act of 2014 (Public Law 113–79). 
(e) MICROENTERPRISE AND MICROFINANCE.—Of the funds appro-
priated by this Act, not less than $265,000,000 shall be made 
available for microenterprise and microfinance development pro-
grams for the poor, especially women. 
(f) PROGRAMS TO COMBAT TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS.—Of the 
funds appropriated by this Act under the headings ‘‘Development 
Assistance’’, ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’, ‘‘Assistance for Europe, Eur-
asia and Central Asia’’, and ‘‘International Narcotics Control and 
Law Enforcement’’, not less than $65,000,000 shall be made avail-
able for activities to combat trafficking in persons internationally, 
of which not less than $40,000,000 shall be from funds made avail-
able under the heading ‘‘International Narcotics Control and Law 
Enforcement’’: Provided, That funds appropriated by this Act that 
are made available for programs to end modern slavery shall be 
in addition to funds made available by this subsection to combat 
trafficking in persons. 
(g) RECONCILIATION PROGRAMS.—Of the funds appropriated by 
this Act under the headings ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’ and 
‘‘Development Assistance’’, not less than $30,000,000 shall be made 
available to support people-to-people reconciliation programs which 
bring together individuals of different ethnic, religious, and political 
backgrounds from areas of civil strife and war: Provided, That 
the USAID Administrator shall consult with the Committees on 
Appropriations, prior to the initial obligation of funds, on the uses 
of such funds, and such funds shall be subject to the regular 
notification procedures of the Committees on Appropriations: Pro-
vided further, That to the maximum extent practicable, such funds 
shall be matched by sources other than the United States Govern-
ment: Provided further, That such funds shall be administered 
by the Office of Conflict Management and Mitigation, USAID. 
(h) WATER
AND SANITATION.—Of the funds appropriated by 
this Act, not less than $400,000,000 shall be made available for 
water supply and sanitation projects pursuant to the Senator Paul 
Simon Water for the Poor Act of 2005 (Public Law 109–121), of 
which not less than $145,000,000 shall be for programs in sub- 
Saharan Africa, and of which not less than $15,000,000 shall be 
made available to support initiatives by local communities in devel-
oping countries to build and maintain safe latrines. 
OVERSEAS PRIVATE INVESTMENT CORPORATION 
SEC. 7061. (a) TRANSFER OF FUNDS.—Whenever the President 
determines that it is in furtherance of the purposes of the Foreign 
Assistance Act of 1961, up to a total of $20,000,000 of the funds 
appropriated under title III of this Act may be transferred to, 
and merged with, funds appropriated by this Act for the Overseas 
Private Investment Corporation Program Account, to be subject 
to the terms and conditions of that account: Provided, That such 
funds shall not be available for administrative expenses of the