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  SA 3946. Mrs. BOXER (for herself, Mr. Menendez, Ms. Collins, Mr. 
Kirk, and Mrs. Shaheen) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by her to the bill S. 2410, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2015 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of title X, add the following:

  Subtitle I--International Prevention of Violence Against Women and 
                                 Girls

     SEC. 1091. STATEMENT OF POLICY.

       It is the policy of the United States--
       (1) to take effective action to prevent and respond to 
     violence against women and girls around the world, as a 
     matter of basic human rights as well as to promote gender 
     equality, economic growth, and improved public health;
       (2) to systematically integrate and coordinate efforts to 
     prevent and respond to violence against women and girls 
     internationally into United States foreign policy and foreign 
     assistance programs, including peacebuilding efforts and 
     humanitarian relief and recovery;
       (3) to support and build local capacity in developing 
     countries, including of governments at all levels and 
     nongovernmental organizations, especially women-led 
     organizations, to prevent and respond to violence against 
     women and girls;
       (4) to consult, cooperate, coordinate, and collaborate with 
     a wide variety of nongovernmental partners with demonstrated 
     experience in preventing and responding to violence against 
     women and girls, including faith-based organizations and 
     women-led organizations;
       (5) to employ a multisectoral approach to preventing and 
     responding to violence against women and girls 
     internationally, including activities in the economic, 
     education, health, nutrition, legal, and judicial sectors;
       (6) to work at all levels, from the individual to the 
     family, community, local, national and international levels, 
     to prevent and respond to violence against women and girls 
     around the globe;
       (7) to enhance training by United States personnel of 
     professional foreign military and police forces and judicial 
     officials to include specific and thorough instruction on 
     preventing and responding to violence against women and girls 
     around the world;
       (8) to engage men and boys as partners, as an essential 
     element of making sustained reductions in violence against 
     women and girls;
       (9) to include the prevention of early and forced marriage 
     as an important part of United States Government efforts to 
     prevent violence against girls and promote gender equality 
     and global health;
       (10) to require that all United States contractors and 
     grantees establish appropriate policies and take effective 
     measures to prevent violence against women and girls and 
     sexual exploitation and abuse within their workforce;
       (11) to exert sustained international leadership to prevent 
     and respond to violence against women and girls, including in 
     bilateral and multilateral fora;
       (12) to implement the United States Strategy to Prevent and 
     Respond to Gender-based Violence Globally; and
       (13) to implement the United States National Action Plan on 
     Women, Peace, and Security.

        PART I--OFFICIAL DESIGNATIONS AND INSTITUTIONAL CHANGES

     SEC. 1093. 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 an 
     Office of Global Women's Issues (in this section referred to 
     as the ``Office''). 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 those duties determined by the Secretary 
     of State, the Ambassador-at-Large shall coordinate efforts of 
     the United States Government as directed by the Secretary 
     regarding gender integration and advancing the status of 
     women and girls in United States foreign policy.
       (c) Duties.--
       (1) In general.--The Ambassador-at-Large--
       (A) shall direct activities, policies, programs, and 
     funding relating to gender equality and the advancement of 
     women and girls internationally, including those intended to 
     prevent and respond 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 full integration 
     of gender analysis into the programs, structures, processes, 
     and capacities of all bureaus and offices of the Department 
     of State and in the international programs of other Federal 
     agencies;
       (C) shall direct, as appropriate, United States Government 
     resources to respond to needs for gender integration and 
     empowerment of women in United States Government foreign 
     policies and international programs, including to prevent and 
     respond to violence 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;
       (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 internationally are subject to rigorous monitoring and 
     evaluation, and that there is a uniform set of indicators and 
     standards for such monitoring and evaluation that is used 
     across all Federal agencies;
       (G) shall serve as the principal advisor to the Secretary 
     of State regarding gender equality, 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

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     and girls, including violence against women and girls 
     internationally.
       (2) Information sharing and transparency.--The Office shall 
     be the central repository of data on all United States 
     programs, projects, and activities that relate to prevention 
     and response to violence against women and girls, and shall 
     produce a full accounting of United States Government 
     spending on such programs, projects, and activities.

     SEC. 1094. SENIOR COORDINATOR FOR GENDER EQUALITY AND WOMEN'S 
                   EMPOWERMENT.

       (a) Establishment.--There is established in the United 
     States Agency for International Development a Senior 
     Coordinator for Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment, who 
     shall report to the Administrator of the United States Agency 
     for International Development and who shall conduct the 
     activities of the Administrator under this subtitle.
       (b) In General.--The Senior Coordinator for Gender Equality 
     and Women's Empowerment--
       (1) shall direct activities, policies, programs, and 
     funding of the United States Agency for International 
     Development relating to gender equality and women's 
     empowerment, including those intended to prevent and respond 
     to violence against women and girls;
       (2) shall actively promote and advance the full integration 
     of gender analysis into the programs, structures, processes, 
     and capacities of all bureaus and offices of the Agency as 
     dictated by the USAID Gender Equality and Female Empowerment 
     Policy;
       (3) shall direct Agency resources for gender equality and 
     women's empowerment, including to prevent and respond to 
     violence against women and girls internationally;
       (4) may design, support, and implement activities led by 
     the Agency regarding gender equality and women's empowerment, 
     including for the prevention and response of violence against 
     women and girls internationally;
       (5) shall conduct regular consultation with civil society 
     organizations working to prevent and respond to violence 
     against women and girls internationally;
       (6) shall serve as the principal advisor to the 
     Administrator regarding gender equality, women's empowerment, 
     and violence against women and girls; and
       (7) shall track and analyze monitoring and evaluation data 
     and findings on international prevention and response 
     programs of the Agency, consistent with Agency-wide 
     monitoring and evaluation activities, and in order to assist 
     in the preparation of the comprehensive strategy developed 
     under section 1097.

     SEC. 1095. BRIEFING.

       Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of 
     this Act, and annually thereafter, the Ambassador-at-Large 
     and Senior Coordinator shall brief the appropriate 
     congressional committees on international violence against 
     women and girls prevention and response strategies, 
     programming, and associated outcomes, and shall submit to the 
     appropriate congressional committees an assessment of human 
     and financial resources necessary to fulfill the purposes and 
     duties of this subtitle.

                PART II--STRATEGY, POLICY, AND PROGRAMS

     SEC. 1097. UNITED STATES STRATEGY TO PREVENT AND RESPOND TO 
                   GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE GLOBALLY.

       (a) Global Strategy Requirement.--Not later than 180 days 
     after the date of the enactment of this Act, and annually 
     thereafter for five years, the Ambassador-at-Large, in 
     consultation with the Senior Coordinator, shall develop or 
     update a United States global strategy to prevent and respond 
     to violence against women and girls. Such strategy shall be 
     transmitted to the appropriate congressional committees and 
     made publicly available on the Internet.
       (b) Initial Strategy.--For the purposes of this section, 
     the ``United States Strategy to Prevent and Respond to 
     Gender-Based Violence Globally'', issued in August 2012, 
     shall be deemed to fulfill the initial requirement of 
     subsection (a).
       (c) Implementation Plan.--Not later than 60 days after 
     submission of the strategy under subsection (a), the 
     Ambassador-at-Large, in consultation with the Senior 
     Coordinator, shall submit to the appropriate congressional 
     committees an implementation plan detailing how the strategy 
     will be implemented in the upcoming five fiscal years, 
     including the budget resources requested, and the specific 
     activities to be supported, by each Executive agency under 
     the strategy.
       (d) Collaboration and Coordination.--In developing the 
     strategy under subsection (a), the Ambassador-at-Large and 
     Senior Coordinator shall consult with--
       (1) the heads of relevant Federal agencies;
       (2) the Senior Policy Operating Group on Trafficking in 
     Persons; and
       (3) representatives of civil society and multi-lateral 
     organizations with demonstrated experience in addressing 
     violence against women and girls or promoting gender equality 
     internationally.
       (e) Content.--The implementation plan required under 
     subsection (c) shall--
       (1) identify eligible low-income and lower-middle income 
     countries with significant levels of violence against women 
     and girls, including within displaced communities, that have 
     the governmental or nongovernmental organizational capacity 
     to manage and implement gender-based violence prevention and 
     response program activities and should, when possible, be 
     geographically, ethnically, and culturally diverse from one 
     another;
       (2) select 5 to 20 of the eligible countries identified 
     under paragraph (1) in which to develop comprehensive and 
     holistic individual country plans that incorporate at least 
     two of the program activities listed in section 1098(b);
       (3) assess and describe the current or potential capacity 
     of the government of each eligible country selected under 
     paragraph (2) and civil society organizations in each such 
     eligible country to address and respond to violence against 
     women and girls;
       (4) identify coordination mechanisms with Federal agencies 
     that--
       (A) have existing programs relevant to the strategy;
       (B) will be involved in new program activities; 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;
       (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 expended by the 
     Department of State, the United States Agency for 
     International Development, other Federal agencies, other 
     donor country governments, and other 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, internally 
     displaced, refugee, or religious or ethnic minority women and 
     girls.

     SEC. 1098. 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 International 
     Development are authorized to provide assistance to prevent 
     and respond to violence against women and girls 
     internationally.
       (b) Program Activities Supported.--Assistance provided to 
     each country selected under subsection 1097(e)(2) should 
     include at least two of the following activities:
       (1) Development and implementation of programs that work to 
     change social norms and attitudes so that violence against 
     women and girls is neither condoned nor tolerated.
       (2) Promotion of accessible quality educational and 
     literacy opportunities for women and girls.
       (3) Promotion of access to economic opportunities, 
     including by increasing distribution, credit, property, and 
     inheritance rights for women and girls.
       (4) Development and enforcement of civil and criminal legal 
     and judicial sanctions, protections, trainings, and capacity.
       (5) Enhancement of the health sector capacity to detect, 
     prevent, and respond to 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 community-based 
     nongovernmental organizations, with priority given to 
     nongovernmental organizations led by women.

     SEC. 1099. MONITORING THE UNITED STATES STRATEGY TO PREVENT 
                   AND RESPOND TO GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE GLOBALLY.

       (a) In General.--In each strategy submitted under section 
     1097(a), the Ambassador-at-Large and Senior Coordinator 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, nongovernmental 
     organizations, educational organizations, and faith-based 
     organizations in preventing and responding 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 strategy 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:
       ``(13) wherever applicable, the nature and extent of 
     violence against women and girls.''; 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 Violence Against 
     Women and Girls.--The report required by subsection (b) shall 
     include, wherever applicable, the nature and extent of 
     violence against women and girls.''.

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       (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 subtitle. The 
     plan shall--
       (1) apply rigorous monitoring and evaluation methodologies 
     to focus on learning, accountability, and policymaking, 
     choosing from among a wide variety of qualitative, 
     quantitative, summative, and formative methods common in the 
     field of social scientific inquiry, including impact 
     evaluations; and
       (2) be included in the implementation plan required under 
     section 1097(c).
       (d) Research and Data Collection.--The Secretary and the 
     Administrator shall--
       (1) produce original research or analysis of effective 
     interventions to prevent or respond to violence 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 internationally, 
     including efforts to scale up effective programming; and
       (4) support systemic data collection using internationally 
     comparable indicators, norms, and methodologies for measuring 
     the scope, prevalence, and incidence of violence against 
     women and girls internationally.
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