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ASSISTANCE FOR DEMOBILIZATION AND DISARMAMENT 
OF FORMER IRREGULAR COMBATANTS IN COLOMBIA 
SEC. 582. (a) AVAILABLITY
OF FUNDS.—Of the 
funds appropriated in this Act, up to $20,000,000 may 
be made available in fiscal year 2007 for assistance for 
the demobilization and disarmament of former members 
of foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs) in Colombia, 
specifically the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia 
(AUC), the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia 
(FARC) and the National Liberation Army (ELN), if the 
Secretary of State makes a certification described in sub-
section (b) to the appropriate congressional committees 
prior to the initial obligation of amounts for such assist-
ance for the fiscal year involved. 
(b) CERTIFICATION.—A certification described in this 
subsection is a certification that—
(1) assistance for the fiscal year will be pro-
vided only for individuals who have: (A) verifiably 
renounced and terminated any affiliation or involve-
ment with FTOs or other illegal armed groups; and 
(B) are meeting all the requirements of the Colom-
bia Demobilization Program, including having dis-
closed their involvement in past crimes and their 
knowledge of the FTO’s structure, financing
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sources, illegal assets, and the location of kidnapping 
victims and bodies of the disappeared; 
(2) the Government of Colombia is providing 
full cooperation to the Government of the United 
States to extradite the leaders and members of the 
FTOs who have been indicted in the United States 
for murder, kidnapping, narcotics trafficking, and 
other violations of United States law; 
(3) the Government of Colombia is imple-
menting a concrete and workable framework for dis-
mantling the organizational structures of foreign ter-
rorist organizations; and 
(4) funds shall not be made available as cash 
payments to individuals and are available only for 
activities under the following categories: verification, 
reintegration (including training and education), vet-
ting, recovery of assets for reparations for victims, 
and investigations and prosecutions. 
(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-
mittees’’ means—
(A) the Committee on Appropriations and 
the Committee on International Relations of the 
House of Representatives; and
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(B) the Committee on Appropriations and 
the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Sen-
ate. 
(2) FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANIZATION.—The 
term ‘‘foreign terrorist organization’’ means an or-
ganization designated as a terrorist organization 
under section 219 of the Immigration and Nation-
ality Act. 
OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR OF TRADE CAPACITY 
ENHANCEMENT 
SEC. 583. The Administrator of the United States 
Agency for International Development (USAID) shall cre-
ate within USAID a new office of Trade Capacity En-
hancement and designate a Director of that office: Pro-
vided, That this office shall be responsible for USAID’s 
trade capacity building programs, coordinating the imple-
mentation of all programs developed by the State Depart-
ment for trade capacity building and coordinating govern-
ment-wide trade capacity building efforts of United States 
agencies: Provided further, That this office shall be respon-
sible for ensuring that country strategic plans, as appro-
priate, include a trade capacity enhancement strategic 
goal and monitor the implementation plan for achieving 
this goal.
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ENHANCING WOMEN’S ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES 
SEC. 584. (a) SUPPORT FOR WOMEN’S SMALL- AND 
MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES
IN DEVELOPING COUN-
TRIES. 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—When carrying out enter-
prise development programs with funds appropriated 
in ‘‘Development Assistance’’, ‘‘Economic Support 
Funds’’, or otherwise made available in the Act for 
‘‘Development Assistance’’, the Director of Foreign 
Assistance shall ensure that, where appropriate, 
such programs, projects, and activities meet the re-
quirements of paragraph (2) of this subsection. 
(2) REQUIREMENTS.—The requirements re-
ferred to in paragraph (1) are the following: 
(A) In coordination with developing coun-
try governments and interested individuals and 
organizations, create or enhance laws, regula-
tions, enforcement, and other practices that 
promote access to banking and financial serv-
ices for women-owned small- and medium-sized 
enterprises, and eliminate or reduce regulatory 
barriers that may exist in this regard. 
(B) Promote access to information and 
communication technologies (ICT) with training
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in ICT for women-owned small- and medium-
sized enterprises. 
(C) Provide training, through local associa-
tions of women-owned enterprises in record 
keeping, financial and personnel management, 
international trade, business planning, mar-
keting, policy advocacy, and other relevant 
areas. 
(D) Provide resources to establish and en-
hance local, national, and international net-
works and associations of women-owned small- 
and medium-sized enterprises. 
(E) Provide incentives for nongovern-
mental organizations and regulated financial 
intermediaries to develop products, services, and 
marketing and outreach strategies specifically 
designed to facilitate and promote women’s par-
ticipation in small and medium-sized business 
development programs by addressing women’s 
assets, needs, and the barriers they face to par-
ticipation in enterprise and financial services. 
(F) Seek to award contracts to qualified 
indigenous women-owned small and medium-
sized enterprises, including for post-conflict re-
construction and to facilitate employment of in-
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digenous women, including during post-conflict 
reconstruction in jobs not traditionally under-
taken by women. 
(b) TRADE BENEFITS FOR WOMEN IN DEVELOPING 
COUNTRIES.—The enterprise development and trade ca-
pacity promotion programs administered by the Depart-
ment of State and the United States Agency for Inter-
national Development shall incorporate the following ob-
jectives: 
(1) Provide training and education to women’s 
civil society, including those organizations rep-
resenting poor women, and to women-owned enter-
prises and associations of such enterprises, on how 
to respond to economic opportunities created by 
trade preference programs, trade agreements, or 
other policies creating market access, including 
training on United States market access require-
ments and procedures. 
(2) Provide capacity building for women entre-
preneurs, including microentrepreneurs, on produc-
tion strategies, quality standards, formation of co-
operatives, market research, and market develop-
ment.