‘‘(xii) to support the work of women- 
led and local nongovernmental organiza-
tions with demonstrated experience in de-
livering services to women and children in 
Afghanistan; 
‘‘(xiii) to monitor and investigate vio-
lations against women and to provide legal 
assistance to women who have suffered vio-
lations of their rights; 
‘‘(xiv) to increase political and civic 
participation of women in all levels of soci-
ety, including the criminal justice system; 
‘‘(xv) to provide information and 
training related to human rights, particu-
larly as pertaining to women, to military, 
police, and legal personnel; and 
‘‘(xvi) to provide assistance to the 
Ministry of Women’s Affairs and the Af-
ghan Independent Human Rights Commis-
sion for programs to advance the status of 
women.’’; and 
(2) in subparagraph (B), to read as follows: 
‘‘(B) AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.—For each 
of the fiscal years 2008 through 2010— 
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‘‘(i) $5,000,000 is authorized to be 
appropriated to the President to be made 
available to the Afghan Ministry of Wom-
en’s Affairs for the administration and 
conduct of its programs; 
‘‘(ii) $10,000,000 is authorized to be 
appropriated to the President to be made 
available 
to 
the 
Afghan 
Independent 
Human Rights Commission for the admin-
istration and conduct of its programs; and 
‘‘(iii) $30,000,000 is authorized to be 
appropriated to the President for grants to 
Afghan-led nongovernmental organizations, 
including Afghan women-led nongovern-
mental organizations, to support activities 
including the construction, establishment, 
and operation of schools for married girls 
and girls’ orphanages, vocational training 
for women and girls, primary health care 
clinics for women and children, programs 
to strengthen Afghan women-led organiza-
tions and women’s leadership, and to pro-
vide monthly financial assistance to wid-
ows, orphans, and women head of house-
holds.’’. 
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(f) ASSISTANCE FOR ENERGY DEVELOPMENT AND 
SHORT-TERM ENERGY SUPPLY.— 
(1) AMENDMENT.—Subsection (a) of such sec-
tion is amended by adding at the end the following 
new paragraphs: 
‘‘(8) ASSISTANCE
FOR
ENERGY
DEVELOP-
MENT.—To support the development of local energy 
sources, new power generation, and energy transpor-
tation, including further development of existing 
hydrological power sources, studies of the utility of 
geothermal energy, expansion of local natural gas 
fields for internal consumption and export, and 
transport of natural gas or other appropriate energy 
sources to Afghanistan’s neighboring countries. 
‘‘(9) ASSISTANCE
FOR
SHORT-TERM
ENERGY 
SUPPLY.— 
‘‘(A) ASSISTANCE
OBJECTIVES.—To pro-
vide assistance for the supply of short-term en-
ergy resources such as diesel to secure the de-
livery of electricity to major Afghan cities. 
‘‘(B) AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.—For each 
of the fiscal years 2008 through 2010, 
$75,000,000 is authorized to be appropriated to 
the President to carry out this paragraph. 
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‘‘(C) RELATION
TO
OTHER
AVAILABLE 
FUNDS.—Amounts made available under sub-
paragraph (B) are in addition to amounts oth-
erwise available for such purposes.’’. 
(2) SENSE
OF
CONGRESS
ON
OPIC
ACTIVI-
TIES.—It is the sense of Congress that the Overseas 
Private Investment Corporation should, in accord-
ance with its mandate to foster private investment 
and enhance the ability of private enterprise to make 
its full contribution to international development, ex-
ercise its authorities under title IV of chapter 2 of 
part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 
U.S.C. 2191 et seq.) to further increase efforts to 
promote and support United States-sponsored pri-
vate investment in the energy sector in Afghanistan, 
including— 
(A) issuing loans, guaranties, and insur-
ance, to support energy infrastructure recon-
struction and development; and 
(B) undertaking a special initiative that in-
cludes— 
(i) sending a needs assessment team 
to Afghanistan to determine ways in which 
the Corporation can best support the es-
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