United States funded efforts to specifically prevent 
child marriage in developing countries. 
(d) COORDINATION.—Assistance authorized under 
subsection (a) shall be integrated with existing United 
States development programs. 
(e) ACTIVITIES SUPPORTED.—Assistance authorized 
under subsection (a) may be made available for activities 
in the areas of education, health, income generation, agri-
culture development, legal rights, democracy building, and 
human rights, including— 
(1) support for community-based activities that 
encourage community members to address beliefs or 
practices that promote child marriage and to edu-
cate parents, community leaders, religious leaders, 
and adolescents of the health risks associated with 
child marriage and the benefits for adolescents, es-
pecially girls, of access to education, health care, 
livelihood skills, microfinance, and savings programs; 
(2) support for activities to educate girls in pri-
mary and secondary school at the appropriate age 
and keeping them in age-appropriate grade levels 
through adolescence; 
(3) support for activities to reduce education 
fees and enhance safe and supportive conditions in 
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primary and secondary schools to meet the needs of 
girls, including— 
(A) access to water and suitable hygiene 
facilities, including separate lavatories and la-
trines for girls; 
(B) assignment of female teachers; 
(C) safe routes to and from school; and 
(D) eliminating sexual harassment and 
other forms of violence and coercion; 
(4) support for activities that allow adolescent 
girls to access health care services and proper nutri-
tion, which is essential to both their school perform-
ance and their economic productivity; 
(5) assistance to train adolescent girls and their 
parents in financial literacy and access economic op-
portunities, including livelihood skills, savings, 
microfinance, and small-enterprise development; 
(6) support for education, including through 
community and faith-based organizations and youth 
programs, that helps remove gender stereotypes and 
the bias against girls used to justify child marriage, 
especially efforts targeted at men and boys, pro-
motes zero tolerance for violence, and promotes gen-
der equality, which in turn help to increase the per-
ceived value of girls; 
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(7) assistance to create peer support and female 
mentoring networks and safe social spaces specifi-
cally for girls; and 
(8) support for local advocacy work to provide 
legal literacy programs at the community level to en-
sure that governments and law enforcement officials 
are meeting their obligations to prevent child and 
forced marriage. 
SEC. 6. RESEARCH AND DATA. 
It is the sense of Congress that the President and 
all relevant agencies should, as part of their ongoing re-
search and data collection activities— 
(1) collect and make available data on the inci-
dence of child marriage in countries that receive for-
eign or development assistance from the United 
States where the practice of child marriage is preva-
lent; and 
(2) collect and make available data on the im-
pact of the incidence of child marriage and the age 
at marriage on progress in meeting key development 
goals. 
SEC. 7. DEPARTMENT OF STATE’S COUNTRY REPORTS ON 
HUMAN RIGHTS PRACTICES. 
The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 is amended— 
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(1) in section 116 (22 U.S.C. 2151n), by add-
ing at the end the following new subsection: 
‘‘(g) The report required by subsection (d) shall in-
clude, for each country in which child marriage is preva-
lent, a description of the status of the practice of child 
marriage in such country. In this subsection, the term 
‘child marriage’ means the marriage of a girl or boy, not 
yet the minimum age for marriage stipulated in law or 
under the age of 18 if no such law exists, in the country 
in which such girl or boy is a resident.’’; and 
(2) in section 502B (22 U.S.C. 2304), by add-
ing at the end the following new subsection: 
‘‘(j) The report required by subsection (b) shall in-
clude, for each country in which child marriage is preva-
lent, a description of the status of the practice of child 
marriage in such country. In this subsection, the term 
‘child marriage’ means the marriage of a girl or boy, not 
yet the minimum age for marriage stipulated in law or 
under the age of 18 if no such law exists, in the country 
in which such girl or boy is a resident.’’. 
Æ 
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