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(A) the Global Fund is maintaining and implementing 
a policy of transparency, including the authority of the 
Global Fund Office of the Inspector General (OIG) to pub-
lish OIG reports on a public Web site; 
(B) the Global Fund is providing sufficient resources 
to maintain an independent OIG that— 
(i) reports directly to the Board of the Global Fund; 
(ii) maintains a mandate to conduct thorough 
investigations and programmatic audits, free from 
undue interference; and 
(iii) compiles regular, publicly published audits and 
investigations 
of 
financial, 
programmatic, 
and 
reporting aspects of the Global Fund, its grantees, 
recipients, sub-recipients, and Local Fund Agents; 
(C) the Global Fund maintains an effective whistle-
blower policy to protect whistleblowers from retaliation, 
including confidential procedures for reporting possible mis-
conduct or irregularities; and 
(D) the Global Fund is implementing the recommenda-
tions contained in the Consolidated Transformation Plan 
approved by the Board of the Global Fund on November 
21, 2011. 
(2) The withholding required by this subsection shall not 
be in addition to funds that are withheld from the Global 
Fund in fiscal year 2015 pursuant to the application of any 
other provision contained in this or any other Act. 
(c) CONTAGIOUS INFECTIOUS DISEASE OUTBREAKS.—If the Sec-
retary of State determines and reports to the Committees on Appro-
priations that an international infectious disease outbreak is sus-
tained, severe, and is spreading internationally, or that it is in 
the national interest to respond to a Public Health Emergency 
of International Concern, funds made available under title III of 
this Act may be made available to combat such infectious disease 
or public health emergency: Provided, That funds made available 
pursuant to the authority of this subsection shall be subject to 
prior consultation with, and the regular notification procedures 
of, the Committees on Appropriations. 
GENDER EQUALITY 
SEC. 7059. (a) GENDER EQUALITY.—Funds appropriated by this 
Act shall be made available to promote gender equality in United 
States Government diplomatic and development efforts by raising 
the status, increasing the participation, and protecting the rights 
of women and girls worldwide. 
(b) WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP.—Of the funds appropriated by title 
III of this Act, not less than $50,000,000 shall be made available 
to increase leadership opportunities for women in countries where 
women and girls suffer discrimination due to law, policy, or practice, 
by strengthening protections for women’s political status, expanding 
women’s participation in political parties and elections, and 
increasing women’s opportunities for leadership positions in the 
public and private sectors at the local, provincial, and national 
levels. 
(c) GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE.— 
(1)(A) Of the funds appropriated by titles III and IV of 
this Act, not less than $150,000,000 shall be made available
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to implement a multi-year strategy to prevent and respond 
to gender-based violence in countries where it is common in 
conflict and non-conflict settings. 
(B) Funds appropriated by titles III and IV of this Act 
that are available to train foreign police, judicial, and military 
personnel, including for international peacekeeping operations, 
shall address, where appropriate, prevention and response to 
gender-based violence and trafficking in persons, and shall 
promote the integration of women into the police and other 
security forces. 
(2) Department of State and United States Agency for 
International Development gender programs shall incorporate 
coordinated efforts to combat a variety of forms of gender- 
based violence, including child marriage, rape, female genital 
cutting and mutilation, and domestic violence, among other 
forms of gender-based violence in conflict and non-conflict set-
tings. 
(d) WOMEN, PEACE, AND SECURITY.—Funds appropriated by 
this Act under the headings ‘‘Development Assistance’’, ‘‘Economic 
Support Fund’’, and ‘‘International Narcotics Control and Law 
Enforcement’’ should be made available to support a multi-year 
strategy to expand, and improve coordination of, United States 
Government efforts to empower women as equal partners in conflict 
prevention, peace building, transitional processes, and reconstruc-
tion efforts in countries affected by conflict or in political transition, 
and to ensure the equitable provision of relief and recovery assist-
ance to women and girls. 
SECTOR ALLOCATIONS 
SEC. 7060. (a) EDUCATION.— 
(1) BASIC EDUCATION.— 
(A) Of the funds appropriated under title III of this 
Act, not less than $800,000,000 should be made available 
for assistance for basic education, and such funds may 
be made available notwithstanding any provision of 
law that restricts assistance to foreign countries, except 
for the conditions provided in this subsection: Provided, 
That not later than 60 days after enactment of this Act, 
the Administrator of the United States Agency for Inter-
national Development (USAID) shall report to the Commit-
tees on Appropriations on the status of cumulative unobli-
gated balances and obligated, but unexpended, balances 
in each country where USAID provides basic education 
assistance and such report shall also include details on 
the types of contracts and grants provided and the goals 
and objectives of such assistance: Provided further, That 
the Administrator shall update such report on a monthly 
basis thereafter until the unobligated and unexpended bal-
ances for such assistance are less than the amount made 
available by this paragraph for basic education assistance: 
Provided further, That the initial report shall also include 
a detailed plan, timeline, and the current status of assist-
ance for basic education. 
(B) USAID shall ensure that programs supported with 
funds appropriated for basic education in this Act and 
prior Acts making appropriations for the Department of
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State, foreign operations, and related programs are 
integrated, as appropriate, with health, agriculture, govern-
ance, and economic and social development activities to 
address the broader needs of target populations: Provided, 
That USAID shall work to achieve quality universal basic 
education by— 
(i) assisting foreign governments, nongovern-
mental, and multilateral organizations working in 
developing countries to provide children with a quality 
basic education, including through strengthening host 
country educational systems; and 
(ii) promoting basic education as the foundation 
for comprehensive community development programs. 
(C) Of the funds appropriated by this Act under title 
III for basic education, not less than $45,000,000 shall 
be made available for a contribution to multilateral part-
nerships that support education. 
(2) HIGHER EDUCATION.—Of the funds appropriated by title 
III of this Act, not less than $225,000,000 shall be made avail-
able for assistance for higher education, of which not less 
than $35,000,000 shall be to support such programs in Africa, 
including $17,500,000 for human and institutional capacity 
development partnerships between higher education institu-
tions in Africa and the United States. 
(3) DEFINITION.—For purposes of funds appropriated under 
title III of this Act, the term ‘‘democracy programs’’ in section 
7032(c) of this Act shall also include programs to rescue 
scholars, and fellowships, scholarships, and exchanges in the 
Middle East and North Africa for academic professionals and 
university students from countries in such region, subject to 
the regular notification procedures of the Committees on Appro-
priations. 
(b) COUNTERING VIOLENT EXTREMISM.—Funds appropriated by 
titles I, III, and IV of this Act may be made available for programs 
to reduce support for foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs), as 
designated pursuant to section 219 of the Immigration and Nation-
ality Act, through messaging campaigns to damage their appeal; 
programs for potential supporters of violent extremism; counter 
radicalization and rehabilitation programs in prisons; job training 
and social reintegration for former supporters of FTOs; law enforce-
ment training programs; and capacity building for civil society 
organizations to combat radicalization in local communities: Pro-
vided, That for purposes of this subsection the term ‘‘countering 
violent extremism’’ shall be defined as non-coercive interventions 
aimed directly at reducing public support for FTOs: Provided fur-
ther, That not later than 180 days after enactment of this Act, 
the Secretary of State, in consultation with the heads of other 
relevant United States Government agencies, shall submit to the 
appropriate congressional committees a multi-year strategy to 
counter violent extremism, including a description of the objectives 
of such strategy, oversight mechanisms for programs to carry out 
such strategy, and multi-year cost estimates. 
(c) ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Of the funds appropriated by this Act, 
not less than $1,153,500,000 should be made available for 
environment programs.
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(2) CLEAN ENERGY.—The limitation in section 7081(b) of 
division F of Public Law 111–117 shall continue in effect during 
fiscal year 2015 as if part of this Act: Provided, That the 
proviso contained in such section shall not apply. 
(3) ADAPTATION AND MITIGATION.—Funds appropriated by 
this Act may be made available for United States contributions 
to multilateral environmental funds and facilities to support 
adaptation and mitigation programs only in accordance with 
the directives under this subsection in the joint explanatory 
statement described in section 4 (in the matter preceding divi-
sion A of this consolidated Act). 
(4) SUSTAINABLE LANDSCAPES AND BIODIVERSITY.—Of the 
funds appropriated under title III of this Act, not less than 
$123,500,000 shall be made available for sustainable landscapes 
programs and, in addition, not less than $250,000,000 shall 
be made available to protect biodiversity, and shall not be 
used to support or promote the expansion of industrial scale 
logging or any other industrial scale extractive activity into 
areas that were primary/intact tropical forest as of December 
30, 2013: Provided, That of the funds made available for the 
Central African Regional Program for the Environment and 
other tropical forest programs in the Congo Basin, not less 
than $17,500,000 shall be apportioned directly to the United 
States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS): Provided further, 
That funds made available for the Department of the Interior 
(DOI) for programs in the Mayan Biosphere Reserve shall be 
apportioned directly to the DOI: Provided further, That such 
funds shall be made available to support other international 
conservation programs of the USFWS, programs of the United 
States Forest Service, and programs to protect great apes and 
other endangered species. 
(5) WILDLIFE POACHING AND TRAFFICKING.— 
(A) Not less than $55,000,000 of the funds appropriated 
under titles III and IV of this Act shall be made available 
to combat the transnational threat of wildlife poaching 
and trafficking, including not less than $10,000,000 for 
programs to combat rhinoceros poaching. 
(B) None of the funds appropriated under title IV of 
this Act may be made available for training or other assist-
ance for any military unit or personnel that the Secretary 
of State determines has been credibly alleged to have 
participated in wildlife poaching or trafficking, unless the 
Secretary reports to the Committees on Appropriations that 
to do so is in the national security interest of the United 
States. 
(6) AUTHORITY.—Funds appropriated by this Act to carry 
out the provisions of sections 103 through 106, and chapter 
4 of part II, of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 may be 
used, notwithstanding any other provision of law except for 
the provisions of this subsection and subject to the regular 
notification procedures of the Committees on Appropriations, 
to support environment programs. 
(7) EXTRACTION OF NATURAL RESOURCES.— 
(A) Funds appropriated by this Act shall be made 
available to promote and support transparency and 
accountability of expenditures and revenues related to the 
extraction of natural resources, including by strengthening