(4) Development and enforcement of civil and 
criminal legal and judicial sanctions, protections, 
trainings, and capacity. 
(5) Enhancement of the health sector capacity 
to detect, prevent, and respond to violence against 
women and girls. 
(c) BUILDING LOCAL CAPACITY.—Not less than 10 
percent of the amount of assistance provided to an eligible 
country under this section should be provided to commu-
nity-based nongovernmental or faith-based organizations, 
with priority given to nongovernmental organizations led 
by women. 
SEC. 103. MONITORING THE UNITED STATES STRATEGY TO 
PREVENT AND RESPOND TO GENDER-BASED 
VIOLENCE GLOBALLY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—In each strategy submitted under 
section 101(a), the Ambassador-at-Large and Senior Co-
ordinator shall include an analysis of best practices for 
preventing and addressing violence against women and 
girls internationally, which shall include— 
(1) a description of successful efforts by foreign 
governments, multilateral institutions, nongovern-
mental organizations, educational organizations, and 
faith-based organizations in preventing and respond-
ing to violence against women and girls; 
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(2) recommendations related to best practices, 
effective strategies, and improvements to enhance 
the impact of prevention and response efforts; and 
(3) the impact of activities funded by the strat-
egy in preventing and reducing violence against 
women and girls internationally. 
(b) AMENDMENTS.—The Foreign Assistance Act of 
1961 is amended— 
(1) in section 116(d) (22 U.S.C. 2151n(d))— 
(A) in paragraph (11)(C), by striking 
‘‘and’’ at the end; 
(B) in paragraph (12)(C)(ii), by striking 
the period at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; 
and 
(C) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph: 
‘‘(13) wherever applicable, the nature and ex-
tent of violence against women and girls.’’; and 
(2) in section 502B (22 U.S.C. 2304)— 
(A) by redesignating the second subsection 
designated as subsection (i) as subsection (j); 
and 
(B) by adding at the end the following new 
subsection: 
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‘‘(k) INCLUSION OF INFORMATION RELATING TO VI-
OLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS.—The report re-
quired by subsection (b) shall include, wherever applicable, 
the nature and extent of violence against women and 
girls.’’. 
(c) MONITORING AND EVALUATION.—In coordination 
with relevant officials, and consistent with the monitoring 
and evaluation policies of their respective agencies, the 
Ambassador-at-Large and the Senior Coordinator shall 
develop a plan for monitoring and independent evaluation 
of programs, projects, and activities carried out under this 
Act. The plan shall— 
(1) apply rigorous monitoring and evaluation 
methodologies to focus on learning, accountability, 
and policymaking, choosing from among a wide vari-
ety of qualitative, quantitative, summative, and 
formative methods common in the field of social sci-
entific inquiry, including impact evaluations; and 
(2) be included in the implementation plan re-
quired under section 101(c). 
(d) RESEARCH AND DATA COLLECTION.—The Sec-
retary of State and the Administrator of the United States 
Agency for International Development shall— 
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(1) produce original research or analysis of ef-
fective interventions to prevent or respond to vio-
lence against women and girls internationally; 
(2) collect and analyze new or existing data on 
the scope and extent of all forms of violence against 
women and girls internationally, including under 
documented forms of violence and violence against 
marginalized groups; 
(3) conduct research on effective interventions 
to respond to violence against women and girls inter-
nationally, including efforts to scale up effective pro-
gramming; and 
(4) support systemic data collection using inter-
nationally comparable indicators, norms, and meth-
odologies for measuring the scope, prevalence, and 
incidence of violence against women and girls inter-
nationally. 
TITLE II—OVERSIGHT AND 
ACCOUNTABILITY 
SEC. 201. OFFICE OF GLOBAL WOMEN’S ISSUES. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary of State shall 
establish in the Office of the Secretary in the Department 
of State an Office of Global Women’s Issues (in this sec-
tion referred to as the ‘‘Office’’). The Office shall be head-
ed by an Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues, 
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who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the 
advice and consent of the Senate. The Ambassador-at- 
Large shall report directly to the Secretary and shall have 
the rank and status of Ambassador-at-Large. 
(b) PURPOSE.—In addition to the duties described in 
subsection (c) and those duties determined by the Sec-
retary of State, the Ambassador-at-Large shall coordinate 
efforts of the United States Government as directed by 
the Secretary regarding gender integration and advancing 
the status of women and girls in United States foreign 
policy. 
(c) DUTIES.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Ambassador-at-Large— 
(A) shall direct activities, policies, pro-
grams, and funding relating to gender equality 
and the advancement of women and girls inter-
nationally, including those intended to prevent 
and respond to violence against women and 
girls, for all bureaus and offices of the Depart-
ment of State and in the international pro-
grams of all other Federal agencies; 
(B) shall actively promote and advance the 
full integration of gender analysis into the pro-
grams, structures, processes, and capacities of 
all bureaus and offices of the Department of 
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State and in the international programs of 
other Federal agencies; 
(C) shall direct, as appropriate, United 
States Government resources to respond to 
needs for gender integration and empowerment 
of women in United States Government foreign 
policies and international programs, including 
to prevent and respond to violence against 
women and girls internationally; 
(D) may design, support, and implement 
activities regarding empowerment of women 
internationally, including for the prevention of 
and response to violence against women and 
girls internationally; 
(E) shall conduct regular consultation with 
civil society organizations working to prevent 
and respond to violence against women and 
girls internationally; 
(F) shall ensure that programs, projects, 
and activities designed to prevent and respond 
to violence against women and girls internation-
ally are subject to rigorous monitoring and eval-
uation, and that there is a uniform set of indi-
cators and standards for such monitoring and 
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evaluation that is used across all Federal agen-
cies; 
(G) shall serve as the principal advisor to 
the Secretary of State regarding gender equal-
ity, 
women’s 
empowerment, 
and 
violence 
against women and girls as a foreign policy 
matter; and 
(H) is authorized to represent the United 
States in diplomatic and multilateral fora on 
matters relevant to the status of women and 
girls, including violence against women and 
girls internationally. 
(2) 
INFORMATION
SHARING
AND
TRANS-
PARENCY.—The Office shall be the central reposi-
tory of data on all United States programs, projects, 
and activities that relate to prevention and response 
to violence against women and girls, and shall 
produce a full accounting of United States Govern-
ment spending on such programs, projects, and ac-
tivities. 
SEC. 202. SENIOR COORDINATOR FOR GENDER EQUALITY 
AND WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established in the 
United States Agency for International Development a 
Senior Coordinator for Gender Equality and Women’s 
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Empowerment, who shall report to the Administrator of 
the United States Agency for International Development 
and who shall conduct the activities of the Administrator 
under this Act. 
(b) IN GENERAL.—The Senior Coordinator for Gen-
der Equality and Women’s Empowerment— 
(1) shall direct activities, policies, programs, 
and funding of the United States Agency for Inter-
national Development relating to gender equality 
and women’s empowerment, including those intended 
to prevent and respond to violence against women 
and girls; 
(2) shall actively promote and advance the full 
integration of gender analysis into the programs, 
structures, processes, and capacities of all bureaus 
and offices of the Agency as dictated by the United 
States Agency for International Development Gender 
Equality and Female Empowerment Policy; 
(3) shall direct Agency resources for gender 
equality and women’s empowerment, including to 
prevent and respond to violence against women and 
girls internationally; 
(4) may design, support, and implement activi-
ties led by the Agency regarding gender equality and 
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women’s empowerment, including for the prevention 
and internationally; 
(5) shall conduct regular consultation with civil 
society organizations working to prevent and re-
spond to violence against women and girls inter-
nationally; 
(6) shall serve as the principal advisor to the 
Administrator regarding gender equality, women’s 
empowerment, and violence against women and girls; 
and 
(7) shall track and analyze monitoring and eval-
uation data and findings on international prevention 
and response programs of the Agency, consistent 
with Agency-wide monitoring and evaluation activi-
ties, and in order to assist in the preparation of the 
comprehensive strategy developed under section 101. 
SEC. 203. BRIEFING. 
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Ambas-
sador-at-Large and Senior Coordinator shall brief the ap-
propriate congressional committees on international vio-
lence against women and girls prevention and response 
strategies, programming, and associated outcomes, and 
shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees 
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an assessment of human and financial resources necessary 
to fulfill 15 the purposes and duties of this Act. 
Æ 
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