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; 
(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; 
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(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-
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 under this section shall be used to carry out, in 
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each of the countries identified in the strategy required 
pursuant to subsection 101(e)(2), two or more of the fol-
lowing program activities: 
(1) Increasing legal and judicial protections 
by— 
(A) supporting programs that strengthen a 
coordinated community response to violence 
against women and girls, including through co-
ordination between judges, police, prosecutors, 
and legal advocates to enhance prospects for 
perpetrator accountability; 
(B) supporting efforts and providing re-
sources to provide training and technical assist-
ance to police, prosecutors, forensic physicians, 
lawyers, corrections officers, judges, and judi-
cial officials, and where appropriate, to non-
lawyer advocates and traditional community au-
thorities on violence against women and girls; 
(C) supporting efforts to reform and revise 
criminal and civil laws to prohibit violence 
against women and girls and create account-
ability for perpetrators; 
(D) enhancing the capacity of the justice 
sector, including keeping official records of all 
complaints, collecting and safeguarding evi-
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dence, systematizing and tracking data on cases 
of violence against women and girls, and under-
taking investigations and evidence gathering ex-
peditiously; 
(E) helping women and girls who are vic-
tims of violence gain access to the justice sector 
and supporting them throughout the legal proc-
ess, including establishing victim and witness 
units for courts and promoting support for sur-
vivor services, including hotlines and shelters; 
(F) promoting civil remedies in cases of 
domestic violence that— 
(i) prioritize victim safety and con-
fidentiality and offender accountability; 
(ii) grant women and children re-
straining, protection, or removal orders 
with appropriate criminal sanctions for vio-
lations against perpetrators of violence; 
(iii) strengthen and promote women’s 
custodial rights over children and protect 
children; and 
(iv) grant courts authority to provide 
specific relief pursuant to a restraining or 
removal order, including restitution, spous-
al maintenance, child support, payment of 
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debt, or return or equitable distribution of 
property; 
(G) reducing the incidence of violence 
against women and girls committed by govern-
ment officials by developing confidential mecha-
nisms for reporting violence against women and 
girls committed by government officials and in-
stitutions and developing laws to punish the 
perpetrators and remove immunity from state 
officials; 
(H) promoting broader legal protection for 
women and girls against all forms of violence 
against women and girls, such as female infan-
ticide and female genital mutilation, and prac-
tices that are associated with higher rates of vi-
olence against women and girls, such as child 
and forced marriage; and 
(I) increasing the number of women advo-
cates trained to respond to violence against 
women and girls at police stations, including 
the creation of domestic violence units and in-
creasing the number of women police. 
(2) Carrying out health care initiatives, includ-
ing— 
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(A) promoting the integration of programs 
to prevent and respond to violence against 
women and girls into existing programs ad-
dressing child survival, women’s health, repro-
ductive health, family planning, mental health, 
and HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and treatment; 
(B) training of health care providers, in-
cluding traditional birth attendants, on methods 
to safely and confidentially assess women and 
girls seeking health services for intimate part-
ner, family, and sexual violence; 
(C) developing and enforcing national and 
operational women’s health, reproductive health, 
children’s health, and HIV/AIDS policies that 
prevent and respond to violence against women 
and girls, with accompanying resources, includ-
ing through cooperative efforts with ministries 
of health; 
(D) developing information gathering sys-
tems within the health care sector that, con-
sistent with safety and confidentiality concerns, 
collect and compile data on the type of violence 
against women and girls, access to care, age of 
victims, and relationship of victims to perpetra-
tors; 
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(E) working with governments to develop 
partnerships with civil society organizations to 
create referral networks systems for psycho-
social, legal, economic, or other support serv-
ices; and 
(F) integrating screening and assessment 
for gender-based violence into HIV/AIDS pro-
gramming and other health programming into 
all country operation plans, and increasing 
women’s access to information, strategies, and 
services to protect themselves from HIV/AIDS. 
(3) Conducting public awareness programs to 
change social norms and attitudes, including— 
(A) supporting women survivors of violence 
to educate their communities on the impacts of 
violence; 
(B) engaging men, including faith and tra-
ditional leaders; 
(C) providing funding and programmatic 
support for mass media social change cam-
paigns; and 
(D) supporting community efforts to 
change attitudes about harmful traditional 
practices, including child marriage, female gen-
ital mutilation, and so-called ‘‘honor killings’’. 
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(4) 
Improving 
economic 
opportunities 
for 
women and girls, including— 
(A) supporting programs to help women 
meet their economic needs and to increase their 
economic opportunities, in both rural and urban 
areas, including through support for— 
(i) the establishment and development 
of businesses (micro, small, and medium- 
sized enterprises) through access to finan-
cial and nonfinancial services; and 
(ii) education, literacy, and numeracy 
programs, leadership development and job 
skills training, especially in nontraditional 
fields and expected growth sectors; 
(B) supporting programs to help increase 
property rights, social security, and home own-
ership and land tenure security for women by— 
(i) promoting equitable extension of 
property and inheritance rights, particu-
larly rights to familial and marital prop-
erty; 
(ii) promoting legal literacy, including 
among faith and traditional leaders, about 
women’s property rights; and 
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(iii) helping women to make land 
claims and protecting women’s existing 
claims and advocating for equitable land ti-
tling and registration for women, including 
safeguards for women title-holders in the 
case of domestic violence disputes; 
(C) integrating activities to prevent and re-
spond to violence against women and girls into 
existing economic opportunity programs by— 
(i) integrating education on violence 
against women and girls into women’s 
microfinance, microenterprise, and job 
skills training programs; and 
(ii) training providers of economic op-
portunity services and programs in sensi-
tivity to violence against women and girls; 
and 
(D) addressing violence against women and 
girls in the workplace. 
(5) Improving educational opportunities for 
women and girls, including— 
(A) supporting efforts and providing re-
sources to provide training for all teachers and 
school administrators on school-related violence, 
in particular increasing awareness of violence 
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against women and girls, and to improve re-
porting, referral, and implementation of codes 
of conduct; 
(B) working to ensure the safety of girls 
during their travel to and from school and on 
school grounds; 
(C) supporting programs for girls and boys 
on the unacceptability of violence against 
women and girls; 
(D) comprehensive sexuality education pro-
grams which include consent education; and 
(E) conducting national and baseline sur-
veys to collect data on school-related violence 
against women and girls. 
(c) BUILDING LOCAL CAPACITY.—Not less than 10 
percent of the amount of assistance provided to an eligible 
country under this section should be provided to commu-
nity-based nongovernmental or faith-based organizations, 
with priority given to nongovernmental organizations led 
by women. 
SEC. 103. MONITORING THE UNITED STATES STRATEGY TO 
PREVENT AND RESPOND TO GENDER-BASED 
VIOLENCE GLOBALLY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—In each strategy submitted under 
section 101(a), the Ambassador-at-Large and Senior Co-
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ordinator shall include an analysis of best practices for 
preventing and addressing violence against women and 
girls internationally, which shall include— 
(1) a description of successful efforts by foreign 
governments, multilateral institutions, nongovern-
mental organizations, educational organizations, and 
faith-based organizations in preventing and respond-
ing to violence against women and girls; 
(2) recommendations related to best practices, 
effective strategies, and improvements to enhance 
the impact of prevention and response efforts; and 
(3) the impact of activities funded by the strat-
egy in preventing and reducing violence against 
women and girls internationally. 
(b) AMENDMENTS.—The Foreign Assistance Act of 
1961 is amended— 
(1) in section 116(d) (22 U.S.C. 2151n(d))— 
(A) in paragraph (11)(C), by striking 
‘‘and’’ at the end; 
(B) in paragraph (12)(C)(ii), by striking 
the period at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; 
and 
(C) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph: 
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‘‘(13) wherever applicable, the nature and ex-
tent of violence against women and girls (as such 
term is defined in section 4 of the International Vio-
lence Against Women Act of 2019).’’; and 
(2) in section 502B (22 U.S.C. 2304)— 
(A) by redesignating the second subsection 
designated as subsection (i) as subsection (j); 
and 
(B) by adding at the end the following new 
subsection: 
‘‘(k) INCLUSION OF INFORMATION RELATING TO VI-
OLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS.—The report re-
quired by subsection (b) shall include, wherever applicable, 
the nature and extent of violence against women and girls 
(as such term is defined in section 4 of the International 
Violence Against Women Act of 2019).’’. 
(c) MONITORING AND EVALUATION.—In coordination 
with relevant officials, and consistent with the monitoring 
and evaluation policies of their respective agencies, the 
Ambassador-at-Large and the Senior Coordinator shall 
develop a plan for monitoring and independent evaluation 
of programs, projects, and activities carried out under this 
Act. The plan shall— 
(1) apply rigorous monitoring and evaluation 
methodologies to focus on learning, accountability, 
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and policymaking, choosing from among a wide vari-
ety of qualitative, quantitative, summative, and 
formative methods common in the field of social sci-
entific inquiry, including impact evaluations; and 
(2) be included in the implementation plan re-
quired under section 101(c). 
(d) RESEARCH AND DATA COLLECTION.—The Sec-
retary of State and the Administrator of the United States 
Agency for International Development shall— 
(1) produce original research or analysis of ef-
fective interventions to prevent or respond to vio-
lence against women and girls internationally; 
(2) collect and analyze new or existing data on 
the scope and extent of all forms of violence against 
women and girls internationally, including under 
documented forms of violence and violence against 
marginalized groups; 
(3) conduct research on effective interventions 
to respond to violence against women and girls inter-
nationally, including efforts to scale up effective pro-
gramming; and 
(4) support systemic data collection using inter-
nationally comparable indicators, norms, and meth-
odologies for measuring the scope, prevalence, and 
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incidence of violence against women and girls inter-
nationally. 
TITLE II—OVERSIGHT AND 
ACCOUNTABILITY 
SEC. 201. OFFICE OF GLOBAL WOMEN’S ISSUES. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary of State shall 
establish in the Office of the Secretary of the Department 
of State the Office of Global Women’s Issues. The Office 
shall be headed by an Ambassador-at-Large for Global 
Women’s Issues, who shall be appointed by the President, 
by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The 
Ambassador-at-Large shall report directly to the Secretary 
and shall have the rank and status of Ambassador-at- 
Large. 
(b) PURPOSE.—In addition to the duties described in 
subsection (c) and duties determined by the Secretary of 
State, the Ambassador-at-Large shall coordinate efforts of 
the United States Government as directed by the Sec-
retary regarding approaches that promote equality and ad-
vance the status of women and girls in United States for-
eign policy. 
(c) DUTIES.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Ambassador-at-Large— 
(A) in consultation with the Senior Coordi-
nator, shall direct activities, policies, programs, 
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and funding relating to gender equality and the 
advancement of women and girls internation-
ally, including those intended to prevent and re-
spond to violence against women and girls, for 
all bureaus and offices of the Department of 
State and in the international programs of all 
other Federal agencies; 
(B) shall actively promote and advance the 
integration of gender analysis into the pro-
grams, structures, processes, and capacities of 
bureaus and offices of the Department of State 
and in the international programs of other Fed-
eral agencies; 
(C) shall direct United States Government 
resources, as appropriate, to respond to needs 
for promoting gender equality and the em-
powerment of women in United States Govern-
ment foreign policies and international pro-
grams, including to prevent and respond to vio-
lence against women and girls internationally; 
(D) may design, support, and implement 
activities regarding empowerment of women 
internationally, including for the prevention of 
and response to violence against women and 
girls internationally; 
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(E) shall conduct regular consultation with 
civil society organizations working to prevent 
and respond to violence against women and 
girls internationally; 
(F) shall ensure that programs, projects, 
and activities designed to prevent and respond 
to violence against women and girls internation-
ally are subject to rigorous monitoring and eval-
uation, and that there is a uniform set of indi-
cators and standards for such monitoring and 
evaluation that is used across all Federal agen-
cies; 
(G) shall serve as the principal advisor to 
the Secretary of State regarding gender equal-
ity, 
women’s 
empowerment, 
and 
violence 
against women and girls as a foreign policy 
matter; and 
(H) is authorized to represent the United 
States in diplomatic and multilateral fora on 
matters relevant to the status of women and 
girls, including violence against women and 
girls internationally. 
(2) 
INFORMATION
SHARING
AND
TRANS-
PARENCY.—The Office— 
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(A) shall be the central repository of data 
on all United States programs, projects, and ac-
tivities that relate to prevention and response to 
violence against women and girls; and 
(B) shall produce a full accounting of 
United States Government spending on such 
programs, projects, and activities. 
SEC. 202. SENIOR COORDINATOR FOR GENDER EQUALITY 
AND WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established in the 
United States Agency for International Development the 
position of Senior Coordinator for Gender Equality and 
Women’s Empowerment. The Senior Coordinator shall— 
(1) report to the Administrator of the United 
States Agency for International Development; and 
(2) conduct the activities of the Administrator 
under this Act. 
(b) DUTIES.—The Senior Coordinator— 
(1) in consultation with the Ambassador-at- 
Large, shall direct activities, policies, programs, and 
funding of the United States Agency for Inter-
national Development relating to gender equality 
and women’s empowerment, including those intended 
to prevent and respond to violence against women 
and girls; 
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(2) shall actively promote and advance the inte-
gration of gender analysis into the programs, struc-
tures, processes, and capacities of all bureaus and 
offices of the United States Agency for International 
Development as required by the Agency’s Gender 
Equality and Female Empowerment Policy; 
(3) shall direct United States Agency for Inter-
national Development resources for gender equality 
and women’s empowerment, including to prevent and 
respond to violence against women and girls inter-
nationally; 
(4) may design, support, and implement activi-
ties led by the United States Agency for Inter-
national Development regarding gender equality and 
women’s empowerment, including for the prevention 
and response to violence against women and girls 
internationally; 
(5) shall conduct regular consultation with civil 
society organizations working to prevent and re-
spond to violence against women and girls inter-
nationally; 
(6) shall serve as the principal advisor to the 
Administrator regarding gender equality, women’s 
empowerment, and violence against women and girls; 
and 
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