cation, unequal childcare responsibilities, gender- 
based violence, early pregnancy and motherhood, ad-
olescent maternal mortality, mobility constraints, 
malnourishment, displacement, lack of safe and reli-
able female sanitation and hygiene facilities, harmful 
social norms, HIV infection, physical, communica-
tion, and attitudinal barriers faced by adolescent 
girls with disabilities, and discrimination based on 
religious or ethnic identity; 
(4) integrating feedback from program partici-
pants into the monitoring, evaluation, and learning 
processes of relevant United States departments or 
agencies; 
(5) supporting girl-led and girl-focused civil so-
ciety organizations with flexible, sustainable funding 
and technical support; 
(6) targeted efforts to increase work with part-
ner country governments, alongside local civil-society 
organizations, and to build greater allyship among 
men and boys for adolescent girls; 
(7) ensuring age-appropriate and gender-sen-
sitive child-safeguarding provisions for all programs 
that engage participants under the age of 18; and 
(8) ensuring adolescents, particularly adolescent 
girls, are provided opportunities and empowering en-
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vironments so that they successfully enter adulthood 
with skills which empower their leadership within 
their communities or governments. 
SEC. 6. PRIORITIZATION OF SPENDING. 
The Secretary of State and the Administrator of the 
United States Agency for International Development shall 
prioritize foreign assistance funding made available for de-
mocracy, human rights, and governance programs in ac-
cordance with this Act. 
SEC. 7. ANNUAL REPORT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than one year after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, 
the Secretary of State and the Administrator of the 
United States Agency for International Development shall 
jointly submit to the appropriate congressional committees 
a report on progress made by relevant United States Gov-
ernment agencies towards increasing civic and political 
participation of adolescent girls and boys around the 
world, separate from or as part of other mandated public 
reporting on efforts to advance gender equality and adoles-
cent girls’ empowerment. 
(b) ELEMENTS.—The report required under sub-
section (a) shall include the following elements: 
(1) An estimate of the number of people 
reached by all new United States Government-fund-
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ed foreign assistance or development projects 
disaggregated by age and sex. 
(2) A description of how adolescent girls, par-
ticularly among the most vulnerable populations, are 
integrated into existing democracy, human rights, 
governance, and rule of law programming. 
(3) The percentage of program participants 
that are adolescent girls in all new democracy, 
human rights, and governance programs focused on 
issues, including civic engagement, political partici-
pation, advocacy, research, and leadership develop-
ment, the percentage of funds spent on those pro-
grams that focus on adolescent girls, and the coun-
tries in which those programs take place. 
(4) The number of democracy, human rights, 
and governance programs created to improve or that 
otherwise support civic engagement, political partici-
pation, and leadership of adolescent girls, the 
amount of funds spent on those programs, and the 
countries in which those programs take place. 
(c) PUBLIC AVAILABILITY.—The report required 
under subsection (a) shall be posted and made available 
on a text-based, searchable, and publicly available internet 
website of the United States Agency for International De-
velopment. 
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SEC. 8. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act— 
(1) the term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-
mittees’’ means— 
(A) the Committee on Foreign Relations 
and the Committee on Appropriations of the 
Senate; and 
(B) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and 
the Committee on Appropriations of the House 
of Representatives; 
(2) the term ‘‘foreign assistance’’ has the mean-
ing given the term in section 634(b) of the Foreign 
Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2394(b)); and 
(3) the term ‘‘gender analysis’’ has the meaning 
given the term in section 3(a) of the Women’s En-
trepreneurship and Economic Empowerment Act of 
2018 (Public Law 115–428). 
Æ 
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