SEC. 5. SAFEGUARDING AGAINST SEXUAL EXPLOITATION 
OR ABUSE BY HUMANITARIAN PERSONNEL. 
In accordance with the Safe from the Start program-
ming focus described in subsection (a), the Secretary of 
State and the Administrator of the United States Agency 
for International Development shall prioritize support for 
activities ensuring that employees and contractors of the 
Agency delivering United States humanitarian assistance 
are equipped to prevent sexual exploitation and abuse in 
settings of humanitarian aid delivery, including by 
strengthening guidelines, training, reporting mechanisms 
and remedies, and other appropriate responses. Such ac-
tivities shall include efforts to— 
(1) recognize the indicators of sexual exploi-
tation or abuse among refugee, displaced, or state-
less populations by humanitarian aid workers; and 
(2) identify and address risks within the hu-
manitarian aid context that create vulnerabilities for 
sexual and other exploitation, perpetrated by or 
against humanitarian aid workers. 
SEC. 6. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
There is authorized to be appropriated such sums as 
may be necessary for each fiscal year to carry out this 
Act but not less than the amount expended in fiscal year 
2018 to carry out the Safe from the Start program of the 
Department of State. 
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SEC. 7. REPORTS REQUIRED. 
(a) PROGRESS REPORT.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, and annually 
thereafter, the Secretary of State, in coordination 
with the Administrator of the United States Agency 
for International Development, shall submit to the 
appropriate congressional committees a report on 
the progress made by the United States and by part-
ners in the implementation or delivery of humani-
tarian assistance, including international organiza-
tions, to prevent, mitigate, and address the incidence 
of gender-based violence in humanitarian emer-
gencies. 
(2) ELEMENTS.—The report required by para-
graph (1) shall include each of the following: 
(A) An aggregation and examination of 
data and research regarding the key drivers of 
gender-based violence in humanitarian emer-
gencies, the critical needs of and services re-
quired by survivors or those at risk, and suc-
cessful program models to address, prevent, and 
mitigate such violence. 
(B) A detailed description of the programs, 
diplomatic efforts, and other activities under-
taken by the United States to implement the 
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Safe from the Start programming focus de-
scribed in section 4(a) of this Act, including 
specific descriptions of— 
(i) the steps taken to integrate pre-
vention, mitigation, and response to gen-
der-based violence into humanitarian as-
sistance, development of humanitarian 
standards, and responses to specific hu-
manitarian crises; 
(ii) the progress made, as of the date 
of the submission of the report, toward 
achieving specific objectives, metrics, and 
indicators for implementation of Safe from 
the Start programming, disaggregated, 
where appropriate, by gender, age, and 
type of violence; 
(iii) a list of the projects funded or 
supported through the Safe from the Start 
programming focus, with specific details on 
levels of funding or assistance and impacts 
of such projects disaggregated, where ap-
propriate, by gender, age, and type of vio-
lence; 
(iv) an assessment of the extent to 
which consultations with nongovernmental 
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organizations, including local actors, and 
intergovernmental actors have led to the 
development of programs, standards, and 
interventions to combat gender-based vio-
lence 
(v) a list of the policies or programs 
implemented by international or multilat-
eral organizations receiving funding from 
the United States Government to improve 
capacity and internal protocols to identify 
signs of gender-based violence, including 
sexual exploitation and abuse, and inte-
grate initiatives to prevent and respond to 
gender-based violence into all programs of 
the organization; and 
(vi) a description of any diplomatic 
action taken bilaterally, multilaterally, or 
with international organizations to encour-
age the governments of other countries and 
international organizations to adopt poli-
cies to prevent and respond to gender- 
based violence in emergency situations, in-
cluding any diplomatic efforts to strength-
en the Global Call to Action on Protection 
from Gender-Based Violence in Emer-
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gencies by increasing the number of gov-
ernments participating in and contributing 
to its gender-based violence prevention and 
response activities. 
(3) CONSULTATION REQUIRED.—In developing 
the report required by paragraph (1), the Secretary 
of State shall consult with the Assistant Secretary 
for Population, Refugees, and Migration of the De-
partment of State and the Associate Administrator 
for Humanitarian Assistance of the Agency for 
International Development. 
(4) FORM.—The report required by paragraph 
(1) shall be submitted in unclassified form but may 
include a classified annex. The unclassified portion 
of such report shall concurrently be published on a 
publicly available website of the Department of 
State. 
(b) BUDGET REPORT.—Not later than 120 days after 
the submission of each budget submitted to Congress by 
the President under section 1105(a) of title 31, United 
States Code, after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
the Director of the Office of Management and Budget 
shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees 
a budget crosscut report that— 
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