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(C) document crimes committed by extremists against 
women and girls, and support investigations and prosecu-
tions of such crimes, as appropriate; 
(D) increase the participation and influence of women 
in formal and informal political processes and institutions 
at the local level and within traditional governing struc-
tures; 
(E) support reconciliation programs between impacted 
minority, religious, and ethnic groups and the broader 
community; 
(F) develop and implement legal reforms and protec-
tions for women and girls at the national and local govern-
ment levels; and 
(G) create and sustain networks for women and girls 
to collectively safeguard their rights on a regional basis. 
(2) STRATEGY REQUIREMENT.—Not later than 90 days after 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State, in consultation 
with the USAID Administrator, shall submit a comprehensive, 
inter-agency strategy to support women and girls who are at 
risk from extremism and conflict, including a description of 
monitoring and evaluation protocols. 
(3) CLARIFICATION AND NOTIFICATION.—Funds made avail-
able pursuant to paragraph (1)— 
(A) are in addition to amounts otherwise available 
by this Act for such purposes; and 
(B) shall be made available following consultation with, 
and subject to the regular notification procedures of, the 
Committees on Appropriations. 
SECTOR ALLOCATIONS 
SEC. 7060. (a) BASIC EDUCATION AND HIGHER EDUCATION.— 
(1) BASIC EDUCATION.— 
(A) Of the funds appropriated under title III of this 
Act, not less than $800,000,000 shall be made available 
for assistance for basic education, and such funds may 
be made available notwithstanding any other provision of 
law that restricts assistance to foreign countries: Provided, 
That such funds should be used to implement the objectives 
of basic education programs for each Country Development 
Cooperation Strategy or similar strategy regarding basic 
education established by the United States Agency for 
International Development: Provided further, That such 
funds may also be used for secondary education activities: 
Provided further, That the USAID Administrator, following 
consultation with the Committees on Appropriations, may 
reprogram such funds between countries. 
(B) Not later than 30 days after enactment of this 
Act, the USAID Administrator 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, That the 
USAID Administrator shall update such report on a quar-
terly basis until September 30, 2018: Provided further,
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That if the USAID Administrator determines that any 
unobligated balances of funds specifically designated for 
assistance for basic education in prior Acts making appro-
priations for the Department of State, foreign operations, 
and related programs are in excess of the absorptive 
capacity of recipient countries, such funds may be made 
available for other programs authorized under chapter 1 
of part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, notwith-
standing such funding designation: Provided further, That 
the authority of the previous proviso shall be subject to 
prior consultation with, and the regular notification proce-
dures of, the Committees on Appropriations. 
(C) Of the funds appropriated under title III of this 
Act for assistance for basic education programs, not less 
than $75,000,000 shall be made available for a contribution 
to multilateral partnerships that support education. 
(2) HIGHER EDUCATION.—Of the funds appropriated by title 
III of this Act, not less than $235,000,000 shall be made avail-
able for assistance for higher education, including not less 
than $35,000,000 for new and ongoing partnerships for human 
and institutional capacity building between higher education 
institutions in the United States and developing countries: 
Provided, That such funds may be made available notwith-
standing any other provision of law that restricts assistance 
to foreign countries, and shall be subject to the regular notifica-
tion procedures of the Committees on Appropriations. 
(b) DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS.—Of the funds appropriated by 
this Act under the heading ‘‘Development Assistance’’, not less 
than $26,000,000 shall be made available for the American Schools 
and Hospitals Abroad program, and not less than $12,000,000 shall 
be made available for cooperative development programs of USAID. 
(c) ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMS.— 
(1) AUTHORITY AND NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENT.— 
(A) 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, to support environment 
programs. 
(B) No funds are appropriated or otherwise made avail-
able by this Act for a contribution, grant, or other payment 
to the Green Climate Fund. 
(C) Funds made available pursuant to this subsection 
shall be subject to the regular notification procedures of 
the Committees on Appropriations. 
(2) CONSERVATION PROGRAMS AND LIMITATIONS.— 
(A) Of the funds appropriated under title III of this 
Act, not less than $265,000,000 shall be made available 
for biodiversity conservation programs. 
(B) Not less than $90,664,000 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. 
(C) 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
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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. 
(D) Funds appropriated by this Act for biodiversity 
programs shall not be used to support the expansion of 
industrial scale logging or any other industrial scale extrac-
tive activity into areas that were primary/intact tropical 
forests as of December 30, 2013, and the Secretary of 
the Treasury shall instruct the United States executive 
directors of each international financial institutions (IFI) 
to vote against any financing of any such activity. 
(3) LARGE
DAMS.—The Secretary of the Treasury shall 
instruct the United States executive director of each IFI that 
it is the policy of the United States to vote in relation to 
any loan, grant, strategy, or policy of such institution to support 
the construction of any large dam consistent with the criteria 
set forth in Senate Report 114–79, while also considering 
whether the project involves important foreign policy objectives. 
(4) SUSTAINABLE LANDSCAPES.—Of the funds appropriated 
under title III of this Act, not less than $123,500,000 shall 
be made available for sustainable landscapes programs. 
(d) FOOD SECURITY AND AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT.—Of the 
funds appropriated by title III of this Act, not less than 
$1,000,600,000 should be made available for food security and agri-
cultural development programs, of which not less than $50,000,000 
shall be made available for the Feed the Future Innovation Labs: 
Provided, That such funds may be made available for a United 
States contribution to the endowment of the Global Crop Diversity 
Trust. 
(e) MICROENTERPRISE AND MICROFINANCE.—Of the funds appro-
priated by this Act, not less than $265,000,000 should be made 
available for microenterprise and microfinance development pro-
grams for the poor, especially women. 
(f) PROGRAMS
TO
COMBAT
TRAFFICKING
IN
PERSONS
AND 
MODERN SLAVERY.— 
(1) TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS.—Of the funds appropriated 
by this Act under the headings ‘‘Development Assistance’’, ‘‘Eco-
nomic Support Fund’’, ‘‘Assistance for Europe, Eurasia and 
Central Asia’’, and ‘‘International Narcotics Control and Law 
Enforcement’’, not less than $64,800,000 shall be made avail-
able for activities to combat trafficking in persons internation-
ally, of which not less than $40,000,000 shall be from funds 
made available under the heading ‘‘International Narcotics Con-
trol and Law Enforcement’’: Provided, That funds made avail-
able pursuant to this paragraph shall be made available to 
support a multifaceted approach to combat human trafficking 
in Guatemala: Provided further, That not later than 120 days 
after enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall submit 
a report to the Committees on Appropriations on the require-
ments enumerated under this section in House Report 114– 
693. 
(2) MODERN
SLAVERY.—Funds appropriated by this Act 
under the heading ‘‘International Narcotics Control and Law 
Enforcement’’ shall be made available for the purposes author-
ized by section 1298 of the National Defense Authorization 
Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (Public Law 114–328): Provided, That
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such funds are in addition to funds made available pursuant 
to paragraph (1), and shall be made available on an open 
and competitive basis: Provided further, That funds made avail-
able pursuant to this paragraph shall be made available subject 
to the regular notification procedures of the Committees on 
Appropriations. 
(3) COORDINATION.—The Secretary of State and the USAID 
Administrator, as appropriate, shall establish and implement 
guidelines to ensure that programs funded by paragraphs (1) 
and (2) to combat trafficking in persons and modern slavery 
are coordinated and complementary, and not duplicative. 
(g) RECONCILIATION PROGRAMS.—Of the funds appropriated by 
this Act under the headings ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’, ‘‘Assistance 
for Europe, Eurasia and Central Asia’’, and ‘‘Development Assist-
ance’’, not less than $26,000,000 shall be made available to support 
people-to-people reconciliation programs which bring together 
individuals of different ethnic, religious, and political backgrounds 
from areas of civil strife and war: Provided, That the USAID 
Administrator shall consult with the Committees on Appropriations, 
prior to the initial obligation of funds, on the uses of such funds, 
and such funds shall be subject to the regular notification proce-
dures of the Committees on Appropriations: Provided further, That 
to the maximum extent practicable, such funds shall be matched 
by sources other than the United States Government. 
(h) WATER
AND SANITATION.—Of the funds appropriated by 
this Act, not less than $400,000,000 shall be made available for 
water supply and sanitation projects pursuant to the Senator Paul 
Simon Water for the Poor Act of 2005 (Public Law 109–121), of 
which not less than $145,000,000 shall be for programs in sub- 
Saharan Africa, and of which not less than $14,000,000 shall be 
made available for programs to design and build safe, public latrines 
in Africa and Asia. 
OVERSEAS PRIVATE INVESTMENT CORPORATION 
SEC. 7061. (a) TRANSFER OF FUNDS.—Whenever the President 
determines that it is in furtherance of the purposes of the Foreign 
Assistance Act of 1961, up to a total of $20,000,000 of the funds 
appropriated under title III of this Act may be transferred to, 
and merged with, funds appropriated by this Act for the Overseas 
Private Investment Corporation Program Account, to be subject 
to the terms and conditions of that account: Provided, That such 
funds shall not be available for administrative expenses of the 
Overseas Private Investment Corporation: Provided further, That 
designated funding levels in this Act shall not be transferred pursu-
ant to this section: Provided further, That the exercise of such 
authority shall be subject to the regular notification procedures 
of the Committees on Appropriations. 
(b) AUTHORITY.—Notwithstanding section 235(a)(2) of the For-
eign Assistance Act of 1961, the authority of subsections (a) through 
(c) of section 234 of such Act shall remain in effect until September 
30, 2017. 
ARMS TRADE TREATY 
SEC. 7062. None of the funds appropriated by this Act may 
be obligated or expended to implement the Arms Trade Treaty 
until the Senate approves a resolution of ratification for the Treaty.