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(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 nongovernmental 
organizations and regulated financial inter-
mediaries 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; 
and 
(F) seek to award contracts to qualified in-
digenous women-owned small- and medium- 
sized enterprises, including for post-conflict re-
construction and to facilitate employment of in-
digenous women, including during post-conflict 
reconstruction in jobs not traditionally under-
taken by women; 
(4) programs, projects, and activities for the 
promotion of private property rights and land tenure 
security for women in developing countries that are 
implemented by local, indigenous nongovernmental 
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and community-based organizations dedicated to ad-
dressing the needs of women, especially women’s or-
ganizations that— 
(A) advocate to amend and harmonize 
statutory and customary law to give women 
equal rights to own, use, and inherit property; 
(B) promote legal literacy among women 
and men about property rights for women and 
how to exercise such rights; 
(C) assist women in making land claims 
and protecting women’s existing claims; and 
(D) advocate for equitable land titling and 
registration for women; 
(5) activities to increase women’s access to em-
ployment and to higher quality employment with 
better remuneration and working conditions in devel-
oping countries, including access to insurance and 
other social safety nets, in informal and formal em-
ployment relative to core labor standards determined 
by the International Labor Organization. Such ac-
tivities should include— 
(A) public education efforts to inform poor 
women and men of their legal rights related to 
employment; 
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(B) education and vocational training tai-
lored to enable poor women to access opportuni-
ties in potential growth sectors in their local 
economies and in jobs within the formal and in-
formal sectors where women are not tradition-
ally highly represented; 
(C) efforts to support self-employed poor 
women or wage workers to form or join inde-
pendent unions or other labor associations to 
increase their income and improve their work-
ing conditions; and 
(D) advocacy efforts to protect the rights 
of women in the workplace, including— 
(i) developing programs with the par-
ticipation of civil society to eliminate gen-
der-based violence; and 
(ii) providing capacity-building assist-
ance to women’s organizations to effec-
tively research and monitor labor rights 
conditions; 
(6) assistance to governments and organizations 
in developing countries seeking to design and imple-
ment laws, regulations, and programs to improve 
working conditions for women and to facilitate their 
entry into and advancement in the workplace; 
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(7) training and education to women in civil so-
ciety, including those organizations representing 
poor women, and to women-owned enterprises and 
associations of such enterprises, on how to respond 
to economic opportunities created by trade pref-
erence programs, trade agreements, or other policies 
creating market access, including training on United 
States market access requirements and procedures; 
(8) capacity-building for women entrepreneurs, 
including microentrepreneurs, on production strate-
gies, quality standards, formation of cooperatives, 
market research, and market development; 
(9) capacity-building to women, including poor 
women, to promote diversification of products and 
value-added processing; 
(10) training to official government negotiators 
representing developing countries in order to en-
hance the ability of such negotiators to formulate 
trade policy and negotiate agreements that take into 
account the respective needs and priorities of a 
country’s poor women and men; 
(11) training to local, indigenous women’s 
groups in developing countries in order to enhance 
their ability to collect information and data, formu-
late proposals, and inform and impact official gov-
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ernment negotiators representing their country in 
international trade negotiations of the respective 
needs and priorities of a country’s poor women and 
men; and 
(12) technical assistance and capacity-building 
to local, indigenous civil society for— 
(A) local indigenous women’s organizations 
to the maximum extent practicable; and 
(B) nongovernmental organizations and 
regulated financial intermediaries that dem-
onstrate a commitment to gender equity in their 
leadership either through current practice or 
through specific programs to increase the rep-
resentation of women in their governance and 
management. 
PEACEKEEPING CAP 
SEC. 684. (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 404(b)(2)(B) 
of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 
1994 and 1995, (22 U.S.C. 287e note) is amended at the 
end by adding the following: ‘‘(v) For assessments made 
during calendar year 2008, 27.1 percent.’’. 
LIMITATION ON BASING IN IRAQ 
SEC. 685. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used by the Government of the United States 
to enter into a permanent basing rights agreement be-
tween the United States and Iraq. 
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