take effective measures to prevent violence against 
women and girls and sexual exploitation and abuse 
within their workforce; 
(11) to exert sustained international leadership 
to prevent and respond to violence against women 
and girls, including in bilateral and multilateral fora; 
(12) to implement the United States Strategy 
to Prevent and Respond to Gender-based Violence 
Globally; and 
(13) to implement the United States National 
Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security. 
TITLE I—STRATEGY, POLICY, 
AND PROGRAMS 
SEC. 101. UNITED STATES STRATEGY TO PREVENT AND RE-
SPOND TO GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE GLOB-
ALLY. 
(a) GLOBAL STRATEGY REQUIREMENT.—Not later 
than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
and annually thereafter for 5 years, the Ambassador-at- 
Large for Global Women’s Issues at the Department of 
State (as described in section 201), in consultation with 
the Senior Coordinator for Gender Equality and Women’s 
Empowerment at the United States Agency for Inter-
national Development (as described in section 202), shall 
develop or update a United States global strategy to pre-
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vent and respond to violence against women and girls. 
Such strategy shall be transmitted to the appropriate con-
gressional committees and made publicly available on the 
Internet. 
(b) INITIAL STRATEGY.—For the purposes of this 
section, the ‘‘United States Strategy to Prevent and Re-
spond to Gender-Based Violence Globally’’, issued in Au-
gust 2012, shall be deemed to fulfill the initial require-
ment of subsection (a). 
(c) IMPLEMENTATION PLAN.—Not later than 60 
days after submission of the strategy under subsection (a), 
the Ambassador-at-Large, in consultation with the Senior 
Coordinator, shall submit to the appropriate congressional 
committees an implementation plan detailing how the 
strategy will be implemented in the upcoming 5 fiscal 
years, including the budget resources requested, and the 
specific activities to be supported, by each Executive agen-
cy under the strategy. 
(d) COLLABORATION AND COORDINATION.—In devel-
oping the strategy under subsection (a), the Ambassador- 
at-Large and Senior Coordinator shall consult with— 
(1) the heads of relevant Federal agencies; 
(2) the Senior Policy Operating Group on Traf-
ficking in Persons; and 
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(3) representatives of civil society and multilat-
eral organizations with demonstrated experience in 
addressing violence against women and girls or pro-
moting gender equality internationally. 
(e) CONTENT.—The implementation plan required 
under subsection (c) shall— 
(1) identify eligible low-income and lower-mid-
dle income countries with significant levels of vio-
lence against women and girls, including within dis-
placed communities, that have the governmental or 
nongovernmental organizational capacity to manage 
and implement gender-based violence prevention and 
response program activities and should, when pos-
sible, be geographically, ethnically, and culturally di-
verse from one another; 
(2) select 5 to 20 of the eligible countries iden-
tified under paragraph (1) in which to develop com-
prehensive and holistic individual country plans that 
incorporate at least two of the program activities 
listed in section 102(b); 
(3) assess and describe the current or potential 
capacity of the government of each eligible country 
selected under paragraph (2) and civil society orga-
nizations in each such eligible country to address 
and respond to violence against women and girls; 
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(4) identify coordination mechanisms with Fed-
eral agencies that— 
(A) have existing programs relevant to the 
strategy; 
(B) will be involved in new program activi-
ties; and 
(C) are engaged in broader United States 
strategies around development; 
(5) describe the monitoring and evaluation 
mechanisms established for each eligible country, 
and their intended use in assessing overall progress 
in prevention and response; 
(6) project general levels of resources needed to 
achieve the stated objectives in each eligible country, 
including an accounting of— 
(A) activities and funding already ex-
pended by the Department of State, the United 
States Agency for International Development, 
and other Federal agencies, donor country gov-
ernments, and multilateral institutions; and 
(B) leveraged private sector resources; 
(7) integrate gender analysis into the strategy 
for each country; and 
(8) include, as appropriate, strategies designed 
to accommodate the needs of stateless, disabled, in-
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ternally displaced refugees and religious or ethnic 
minority women and girls. 
SEC. 102. IMPLEMENTATION OF THE UNITED STATES 
STRATEGY TO PREVENT AND RESPOND TO 
GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE GLOBALLY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of State and the 
Administrator of the United States Agency for Inter-
national Development are authorized to provide assistance 
to prevent and respond to violence against women and 
girls internationally. 
(b) PROGRAM ACTIVITIES SUPPORTED.—Assistance 
provided to each country selected under subsection 
101(e)(2) should include at least two of the following ac-
tivities: 
(1) Development and implementation of pro-
grams that work to change social norms and atti-
tudes so that violence against women and girls is 
neither condoned nor tolerated. 
(2) Promotion of accessible quality educational, 
learning, and literacy opportunities for women and 
girls. 
(3) Promotion of access to economic opportuni-
ties, including by increasing distribution, credit, 
property, and inheritance rights for women and 
girls. 
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