flict stability in South Sudan, the applicable requirements 
are the following: 
(1) Ensure that a significant portion of United 
States development, humanitarian, and relief assist-
ance is channeled to local and United States-based 
South Sudanese organizations, particularly South 
Sudanese women’s organizations. Provide technical 
assistance, training, and capacity-building for local 
organizations to ensure that United States-funded 
efforts will be both effective and sustainable. 
(2) Encourage United States organizations that 
receive funds authorized by this Act to partner with 
or create South Sudanese-led counterpart organiza-
tions and provide these organizations with signifi-
cant financial resources, technical assistance, and 
capacity building. 
(3) Provide direct financial and programmatic 
assistance to the Ministry of Women’s Affairs ade-
quate to ensure that the Ministry is able to fulfill its 
mandate. 
(4) Promote multiyear women-centered eco-
nomic development programs, including programs to 
assist widows, female heads of household, women in 
rural areas, and disabled women. 
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(5) Increase women’s access to or ownership of 
productive assets such as land, water, agricultural 
inputs, credit, and property. 
(6) Provide long-term financial assistance for 
primary, secondary, higher, nontraditional, and voca-
tional education for South Sudanese girls, women, 
boys, and men. 
(7) Provide financial assistance to build the 
health infrastructure and to deliver high-quality 
comprehensive health care programs, including pri-
mary, maternal, child, reproductive, and mental 
health care. 
(8) Integrate education and training programs 
for former combatants with economic development 
programs to encourage their reintegration into soci-
ety and to promote post-conflict stability. 
(9) Provide assistance to rehabilitate children 
affected by the conflict, particularly child soldiers. 
(10) Support educational efforts to increase 
awareness with respect to landmines, facilitate the 
removal of landmines, and provide services to indi-
viduals with disabilities caused by landmines. 
(11) Include programs to prevent trafficking in 
persons, assist victims, and apprehend and prosecute 
traffickers in persons. 
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(d) SOUTH SUDANESE MILITARY
AND POLICE.— 
With respect to training for military and police forces in 
South Sudan, the applicable requirements are the fol-
lowing: 
(1) Include training on the protection, rights, 
and the particular needs of women and emphasize 
that violations of women’s rights are intolerable and 
should be prosecuted. 
(2) Encourage such trainers who will carry out 
the activities in paragraph (1) to consult with wom-
en’s organizations in South Sudan to ensure that 
training content and materials are adequate, appro-
priate, and comprehensive. 
(e) RELIEF, RESETTLEMENT, AND REPATRIATION OF 
REFUGEES AND THE INTERNALLY DISPLACED.—With re-
spect to the relief, resettlement, and repatriation of refu-
gees and internally displaced in South Sudan, the applica-
ble requirements are the following: 
(1) Take all necessary steps to ensure that 
women refugees and internally displaced in camps, 
urban areas, and villages are directly receiving food 
aid, shelter, relief supplies, and other services from 
United States-sponsored programs. 
(2) Take all necessary steps to ensure that 
women refugees in camps, urban areas, and villages 
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are accessing high-quality health and medical serv-
ices, including primary, maternal, child, and mental 
health services. 
(3) Take all necessary steps to ensure that 
women and children in refugee camps are protected 
from sexual exploitation. 
(4) Take all necessary steps to ensure refugees 
and internally displaced persons that seek to return 
to their place of origin can do so voluntarily, safely, 
and with the full protection of their rights. United 
States-sponsored efforts shall not coerce refugees or 
internally displaced persons to return to their places 
of origin. 
SEC. 4. REPORTING REQUIREMENTS. 
Not later than 60 days after the date of enactment 
of this Act, and annually thereafter, the President shall 
prepare and transmit to Congress a report that contains 
documentation of the progress in implementing the re-
quirements of section 3. All data shall be disaggregated 
by sex. 
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