[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
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[S. 1425 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1425

To increase the United States financial and programmatic contributions 
  to promote economic opportunities for women in developing countries.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              July 9, 2009

  Mr. Durbin (for himself, Mrs. Hutchison, Ms. Collins, Ms. Landrieu, 
Mrs. Shaheen, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Casey, Mr. Whitehouse, Mr. Johnson, and 
 Mrs. Gillibrand) introduced the following bill; which was read twice 
           and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations

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                                 A BILL


 
To increase the United States financial and programmatic contributions 
  to promote economic opportunities for women in developing countries.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.

    (a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Global Resources 
and Opportunities for Women To Thrive Act of 2009'' or the ``GROWTH Act 
of 2009''.
    (b) Table of Contents.--The table of contents of this Act is as 
follows:

Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
Sec. 2. Findings and statement of purpose.
Sec. 3. Microfinance and microenterprise development assistance for 
                            women in developing countries.
Sec. 4. Support for women's small- and medium-sized enterprises in 
                            developing countries.
Sec. 5. Support for private property rights and land tenure security 
                            for women in developing countries.
Sec. 6. Support for women's access to employment in developing 
                            countries.
Sec. 7. Trade benefits for women in developing countries.
Sec. 8. Exchanges between United States entrepreneurs and women 
                            entrepreneurs in developing countries.
Sec. 9. Assistance under the Millennium Challenge Account.
Sec. 10. GROWTH Fund.
Sec. 11. Data collection.
Sec. 12. Support for women's organizations in developing countries.
Sec. 13. Report.
Sec. 14. Authorization of appropriations.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND STATEMENT OF PURPOSE.

    (a) Findings.--Congress finds the following:
            (1) Women around the world are especially vulnerable to 
        poverty. They tend to work longer hours, are compensated less, 
        and have less income stability and fewer economic opportunities 
        than men.
            (2) Women's share of the labor force is increasing in 
        almost all regions of the world. Women comprise more than 40 
        percent of the global labor force as well as 40 percent of the 
        labor force in eastern and southeastern Asia, sub-Saharan 
        Africa, and the Caribbean. Women comprise a third of the labor 
        force in Central America and nearly a third of total employment 
        in South Asia. About 250,000,000 young women will enter the 
        labor force worldwide before 2015.
            (3) Women are more likely to work in informal employment 
        relationships in poor countries compared to men. In sub-Saharan 
        Africa, 84 percent of women are employed informally compared to 
        71 percent of men. In the Middle East, 44 percent of women are 
        employed informally compared to 29 percent of men. Informal 
        employment is characterized by lower wages and greater 
        variability of earnings, less stability, absence of labor 
        organization, and fewer social protections than formal 
        employment.
            (4) Changes in the economy of a poor country affect women 
        and men differently. Women are disproportionately affected by 
        long-term recessions, crises, and economic restructuring and 
        they often miss out on many of the benefits of growth.
            (5) International trade can be an important tool for 
        economic development and poverty reduction. The benefits of 
        international trade should extend to all members of society, 
        particularly the world's poor women.
            (6) Policies that promote fair labor practices for women, 
        and access to information, education, land, credit, physical 
        capital, and social services can be a means of reducing 
        poverty, ensuring food security, and boosting productivity and 
        earnings for the economies of developing countries.
            (7) Expanding economic opportunity for women in developing 
        countries can have a positive effect on child nutrition, 
        health, and education, as women often invest their income in 
        their families. Increasing women's income can also decrease 
        women's vulnerability to HIV/AIDS, gender-based violence, and 
        trafficking, and make women more resistant to the impact of 
        natural disasters.
            (8) Policies that promote economic opportunities for women, 
        including microfinance and microenterprise development and the 
        promotion of women's small- and medium-sized businesses, can be 
        a means of generating gainful, safe, and dignified employment 
        for the poor.
            (9) Women play a vital, but often unrecognized, role in 
        averting violence, resolving conflict, and rebuilding economies 
        in postconflict societies. Women in conflict-affected areas 
        face even greater challenges than men do in accessing 
        employment, training, property rights, credit, and financial 
        and nonfinancial resources for business development. Policies 
        designed to ensure economic opportunity for women in conflict-
        affected areas play a significant role in economic 
        rehabilitation and consolidation of peace.
            (10) Given the important role of women in the economies of 
        poor countries, poverty alleviation programs funded by the 
        United States in poor countries should seek to enhance the 
        level of economic opportunity available to women in those 
        countries.
    (b) Statement of Purpose.--The purpose of this Act is to ensure 
that the policies of the United States actively promote development and 
economic opportunities for women, including programs and policies 
that--
            (1) promote women's ability to start micro-, small-, or 
        medium-sized business enterprises, and enable women to grow 
        such enterprises, particularly from micro- to small-sized 
        enterprises and from small- to medium-sized enterprises, or 
        sustain current business capacity;
            (2) promote the rights of women to own, manage, and inherit 
        property, including land, encourage the adoption of laws and 
        policies that support women in their efforts to enforce those 
        rights in administrative and judicial tribunals, and address 
        conflicts with country-specific legal regimes or practices 
        (often known as ``customary law'') to increase the ability of 
        women to inherit and own real property;
            (3) increase women's access to employment, enable women to 
        access higher quality jobs with better remuneration and working 
        conditions in both informal and formal employment, and improve 
        the quality of jobs in sectors dominated by women by improving 
        the remuneration and working conditions for those jobs; and
            (4) bring the benefits of international trade policy to 
        women in developing countries and continue to ensure that trade 
        policies and agreements adequately reflect the respective needs 
        of poor women and men.

SEC. 3. MICROFINANCE AND MICROENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE FOR 
              WOMEN IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES.

    (a) Authorization; Implementation; Targeted Assistance.--
            (1) Authorization.--Section 252(a) of the Foreign 
        Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2211a(a)) is amended--
                    (A) by redesignating paragraphs (1) through (4) as 
                subparagraphs (A) through (D), respectively;
                    (B) by striking ``The President is'' and inserting 
                the following:
            ``(1) In general.--The President is''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(2) Assistance for women in developing countries.--In 
        providing assistance under paragraph (1), the President shall 
        pay special attention to the needs of women in developing 
        countries, including by--
                    ``(A) carrying out specific activities to enhance 
                the empowerment of women in developing countries, such 
                as providing leadership training, basic health and HIV/
                AIDS education, and assistance with the development of 
                literacy skills;
                    ``(B) carrying out initiatives to eliminate legal 
                and institutional barriers to women's ownership of 
                assets, access to credit, access to information and 
                communication technologies, and engagement in business 
                activities within or outside of the home;
                    ``(C) providing assistance for capacity building 
                for microfinance and microenterprise institutions to 
                enable such institutions to better meet the credit, 
                savings, insurance, and training needs of women who are 
                microfinance and microenterprise clients; and
                    ``(D) carrying out microfinance and microenterprise 
                development programs that--
                            ``(i) specifically target women with 
                        respect to outreach and marketing;
                            ``(ii) provide products specifically 
                        designed to address women's assets and needs 
                        and the barriers women encounter with respect 
                        to participating in enterprise and financial 
                        services; and
                            ``(iii) promote women's ability to grow 
                        micro-enterprises to small- and medium-sized 
                        enterprises.''.
            (2) Implementation.--Section 252(b)(2)(C) of the Foreign 
        Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2211a(b)(2)(C)) is amended--
                    (A) in clause (ii)--
                            (i) by striking ``microenterprise 
                        development field'' and inserting 
                        ``microfinance and microenterprise development 
                        field''; and
                            (ii) by striking ``and'' at the end;
                    (B) in clause (iii)--
                            (i) by inserting after ``competitive'' the 
                        following: ``, take into consideration the 
                        anticipated impact of the proposals on the 
                        empowerment of women and men,''; and
                            (ii) by striking the period at the end and 
                        inserting ``; and''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following new clause:
                            ``(iv) give preference to proposals from 
                        providers of assistance that demonstrate the 
                        greatest knowledge of clients' needs and 
                        capabilities, including proposals that ensure 
                        that women are involved in the design and 
                        implementation of services and programs.''.
            (3) Targeted assistance.--Section 252(c) of the Foreign 
        Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2211a(c)) is amended--
                    (A) in the first sentence, by inserting before the 
                period the following: ``and an effort shall be made to 
                target such resources to women''; and
                    (B) in the second sentence, by striking ``2006'' 
                and inserting ``2011''.
    (b) Monitoring System.--Section 253(b)(1) of the Foreign Assistance 
Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2211b(b)(1)) is amended to read as follows:
            ``(1) The monitoring system shall include performance goals 
        for the assistance and shall express such goals, to the extent 
        feasible--
                    ``(A) in an objective and quantifiable form;
                    ``(B) in a manner that describes the effects of 
                such goals on women and men, respectively; and
                    ``(C) in a manner that describes the number of 
                women and the number of men benefiting from the 
                assistance.''.
    (c) Microenterprise Development Credits.--Section 256(b)(2) of the 
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2212(b)(2)) is amended by 
inserting before the semicolon the following: ``, especially the needs 
of clients who are women''.
    (d) Additional Report Requirements.--Section 258 of the Foreign 
Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2214) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b), by adding at the end the following 
        new paragraph:
            ``(12) An estimate of the potential global demand for 
        microfinance and microenterprise development for women, 
        determined in collaboration with practitioners in a cost-
        effective manner, and a description of the Agency's plan to 
        help meet such demand.'';
            (2) by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection (d); and
            (3) by inserting after subsection (b) the following new 
        subsection:
    ``(c) Additional Requirement.--All information in the report 
required by this section relating to beneficiaries of assistance 
authorized by this title shall be disaggregated by sex to the maximum 
extent practicable.''.

SEC. 4. SUPPORT FOR WOMEN'S SMALL- AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES IN 
              DEVELOPING COUNTRIES.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of State, acting through the 
Administrator of the United States Agency for International 
Development, shall--
            (1) where appropriate, carry out programs, projects, and 
        activities that meet the requirements described in subsection 
        (b) for enterprise development for women in developing 
        countries; and
            (2) ensure that any programs, projects, and activities for 
        enterprise development for women in developing countries that 
        are carried out pursuant to assistance provided under part I of 
        the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151 et seq.) 
        meet the requirements described in subsection (b).
    (b) Requirements.--A program, project, or activity described in 
subsection (a) meets the requirements described in this subsection if 
the program, project, or activity--
            (1) in coordination with the governments of developing 
        countries and interested individuals and organizations, 
        promotes the development or enhancement of laws, regulations, 
        or practices (including practices with respect to the 
        enforcement of such laws or regulations) that improve access to 
        banking and financial services for women-owned small- and 
        medium-sized enterprises;
            (2) promotes access to information and communication 
        technologies by providing training with respect to such 
        technologies for women-owned small- and medium-sized 
        enterprises;
            (3) provides training, through local associations of women-
        owned enterprises or nongovernmental organizations, with 
        respect to recordkeeping, financial and personnel management, 
        international trade, business planning, marketing, policy 
        advocacy, leadership development, and other areas relevant to 
        running enterprises;
            (4) provides resources to establish and enhance local, 
        national, and international networks and associations of women-
        owned small- and medium-sized enterprises;
            (5) provides incentives for nongovernmental organizations 
        and financial service providers to develop products, services, 
        and marketing and outreach strategies specifically designed to 
        facilitate and promote women's participation in development 
        programs for small- and medium-sized businesses by addressing 
        women's assets and needs and the barriers women face to 
        participating in enterprise and financial services; and
            (6) seeks to award contracts to qualified small- and 
        medium-sized enterprises owned by women, particularly 
        indigenous women, including--
                    (A) for postconflict reconstruction; and
                    (B) to facilitate employment of women, particularly 
                indigenous women in jobs not traditionally undertaken 
                by women.

SEC. 5. SUPPORT FOR PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS AND LAND TENURE SECURITY 
              FOR WOMEN IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of State, acting through the 
Administrator of the United States Agency for International 
Development, shall--
            (1) where appropriate, carry out programs, projects, and 
        activities to promote private property rights and land tenure 
        security for women in developing countries that--
                    (A) are implemented by local, indigenous, 
                nongovernmental, and community-based organizations, 
                especially women's organizations, that are dedicated to 
                addressing the needs of women; and
                    (B) otherwise meet the requirements described in 
                subsection (b); and
            (2) ensure that any programs, projects, and activities to 
        promote private property rights and land tenure security for 
        women in developing countries that are carried out pursuant to 
        assistance provided under part I of the Foreign Assistance Act 
        of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151 et seq.)--
                    (A) are implemented by local, indigenous, 
                nongovernmental, and community-based organizations, 
                especially women's organizations, that are dedicated to 
                addressing the needs of women; and
                    (B) otherwise meet the requirements described in 
                subsection (b).
    (b) Requirements.--A program, project, or activity described in 
subsection (a) meets the requirements described in this subsection if 
the program, project, or activity--
            (1) advocates to amend and harmonize statutory and other 
        country-specific legal regimes or practices to give women equal 
        rights to own, use, and inherit property;
            (2) promotes legal literacy among women and men about 
        property rights for women and how to exercise such rights;
            (3) assists women in making land claims and protecting 
        existing land claims; and
            (4) advocates for equitable land titling and registration 
        for women.
    (c) Amendment.--Section 103(b)(1) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 
1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151a(b)(1)) is amended by inserting ``, especially for 
women'' after ``establishment of more equitable and more secure land 
tenure arrangements''.

SEC. 6. SUPPORT FOR WOMEN'S ACCESS TO EMPLOYMENT IN DEVELOPING 
              COUNTRIES.

    The Secretary of State, acting through the Administrator of the 
United States Agency for International Development, shall, where 
appropriate--
            (1) support activities to increase the access of women in 
        developing countries to employment and to higher quality 
        employment, in informal and formal employment, with better 
        remuneration, working conditions, and benefits (including 
        health insurance and other social safety nets) in accordance 
        with the core labor standards of the International Labour 
        Organization, including--
                    (A) public education efforts to inform poor women 
                and men of women's legal rights related to employment;
                    (B) education and vocational training tailored to 
                enable poor women to access job opportunities, whether 
                for formal or informal employment, in--
                            (i) sectors in their local economies with 
                        the potential for growth; and
                            (ii) sectors in which women are not 
                        traditionally highly represented;
                    (C) efforts to support self-employed poor women or 
                wage workers to form or join independent unions or 
                other labor associations to increase their incomes and 
                improve their working conditions; and
                    (D) advocacy efforts to protect the rights of women 
                in the workplace, including--
                            (i) developing programs with the 
                        participation of civil society to eliminate 
                        gender-based violence; and
                            (ii) providing capacity-building assistance 
                        to women's organizations to effectively 
                        research and monitor labor rights conditions; 
                        and
            (2) provide assistance to governments and nongovernmental 
        organizations in developing countries seeking to design and 
        implement laws, regulations, and programs to improve working 
        conditions for women and to facilitate the entry into, and 
        advancement in, the workplace by women.

SEC. 7. TRADE BENEFITS FOR WOMEN IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES.

    In order to ensure that poor women in developing countries are able 
to benefit from international trade, the President, acting through the 
Secretary of State (acting through the Administrator of the United 
States Agency for International Development) and the heads of other 
appropriate departments and agencies of the United States, shall, where 
appropriate, provide the following training and education in developing 
countries:
            (1) Training women in civil society organizations, 
        including those organizations representing poor women, and 
        women-owned enterprises and associations of such enterprises, 
        on how to respond to economic opportunities created by trade 
        preference programs, trade agreements, or other policies that 
        create or facilitate market access. The training shall include 
        information with respect to requirements and procedures for 
        accessing the United States market.
            (2) Training women entrepreneurs, including 
        microentrepreneurs, with respect to production strategies, 
        quality standards, formation of cooperatives, market research, 
        and market development.
            (3) Teaching women, including poor women, to promote 
        diversification of products and value-added processing.
            (4) Instructing negotiators officially representing the 
        governments of developing countries in international trade 
        negotiations in order to enhance the ability of the negotiators 
        to formulate trade policy and negotiate agreements that take 
        into account the respective needs and priorities of poor women 
        and men in developing countries.
            (5) Educating local groups representing indigenous women in 
        developing countries in order to enhance the ability of those 
        groups to collect information and data, formulate proposals, 
        and inform and impact negotiators described in paragraph (4) 
        with respect to the respective needs and priorities of poor 
        women and men in developing countries.

SEC. 8. EXCHANGES BETWEEN UNITED STATES ENTREPRENEURS AND WOMEN 
              ENTREPRENEURS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES.

    (a) Department of Commerce.--The Secretary of Commerce shall, where 
appropriate, encourage representatives of United States businesses on 
trade missions to developing countries to--
            (1) meet with representatives of women-owned small- and 
        medium-sized enterprises in such countries; and
            (2) promote internship opportunities for women owners of 
        small- and medium-sized enterprises in such countries with 
        United States businesses.
    (b) Department of State.--The Secretary of State shall promote 
exchange programs that offer representatives of women-owned small- and 
medium-sized enterprises in developing countries an opportunity to 
learn skills appropriate for promoting entrepreneurship by working with 
representatives of businesses in the United States.

SEC. 9. ASSISTANCE UNDER THE MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE ACCOUNT.

    The Chief Executive Officer of the Millennium Challenge Corporation 
shall seek to ensure that contracts and employment opportunities 
resulting from assistance provided by the Corporation to the 
governments of developing countries are fairly and equitably 
distributed to qualified women-owned small- and medium-sized 
enterprises and other civil society organizations led by women, 
including nongovernmental and community-based organizations, for 
projects, including for infrastructure projects, that facilitate 
employment of women in jobs not traditionally undertaken by women.

SEC. 10. GROWTH FUND.

    (a) Establishment.--
            (1) In general.--The Secretary of State, acting through the 
        Administrator of the United States Agency for International 
        Development, shall establish the Global Resources and 
        Opportunities for Women to Thrive (GROWTH) Fund (in this 
        section referred to as the ``Fund'') for the purpose of 
        enhancing economic opportunities for very poor, poor, and low-
        income women in developing countries with a focus on--
                    (A) increasing the development of women-owned 
                enterprises;
                    (B) increasing property rights for women;
                    (C) increasing women's access to financial 
                services;
                    (D) increasing the number of women in leadership in 
                implementing partner organizations (as defined in 
                section 259(6) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 
                (22 U.S.C. 2214a(6))), as well as financial service 
                providers;
                    (E) improving the employment benefits and 
                conditions available to women; and
                    (F) increasing the benefits of international trade 
                available to women.
            (2) Application for funds by usaid missions.--
                    (A) In general.--A mission of the United States 
                Agency for International Development may apply for 
                funds from the Fund to support specific activities, in 
                addition to activities already carried out by that 
                mission, that are described in subsection (b) and 
                enhance economic opportunities for women in developing 
                countries or integrate gender into economic opportunity 
                programs.
                    (B) Supplement not supplant.--Funds provided to a 
                mission of the United States Agency for International 
                Development pursuant to subparagraph (A) shall 
                supplement and not supplant other funds available to 
                that mission.
    (b) Activities Supported.--The activities described in this 
subsection are--
            (1) activities described in title VI of part I of the 
        Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2211 et seq.), as 
        amended by section 3 of this Act;
            (2) activities described in sections 4 through 7 of this 
        Act; and
            (3) technical assistance to, and capacity building for, 
        civil society organizations, particularly to carry out 
        activities described in paragraphs (1) and (2), for--
                    (A) local and indigenous women's organizations to 
                the maximum extent practicable; and
                    (B) local, indigenous, nongovernmental, and 
                community-based organizations and financial service 
                providers that demonstrate a commitment to gender 
                equity in the leadership of such organizations and 
                intermediaries either through current practice or 
                through specific programs to increase the 
                representation of women in the governance and 
                management of such organizations and intermediaries.

SEC. 11. DATA COLLECTION.

    The Secretary of State, acting through the Administrator of the 
United States Agency for International Development, shall--
            (1) provide support for tracking indicators on women's 
        employment, property rights for women, women's access to 
        financial services, and women's enterprise development, 
        including microenterprises, in developing countries;
            (2) to the extent practicable, track all foreign assistance 
        funds provided by the United States to local, indigenous, 
        nongovernmental, community-based organizations, and financial 
        service providers in developing countries, including through 
        subcontractors and grantees, disaggregated by the sex of the 
        head of the organization, senior management, and composition of 
        the boards of directors;
            (3) encourage agencies of the United States that collect 
        statistical data to provide support to agencies in developing 
        countries that collect statistical data to collect data on the 
        share of women in wage work and self-employment, disaggregated 
        by type of employment; and
            (4) provide funding to the International Labour 
        Organization--
                    (A) to carry out technical assistance activities in 
                developing countries; and
                    (B) to consolidate data indicators collected in 
                different developing countries into cross-country data 
                sets.

SEC. 12. SUPPORT FOR WOMEN'S ORGANIZATIONS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES.

    (a) Amendments.--Section 102 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 
(22 U.S.C. 2151-1) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by inserting after the ninth 
        sentence the following new sentences: ``Because men and women 
        generally occupy different economic niches in poor countries, 
        activities must address those differences in ways that enable 
        both women and men to contribute to and benefit from 
        development. Throughout the world, indigenous, local, 
        nongovernmental and community-based organizations, as well as 
        financial service providers, are essential to addressing many 
        of the development challenges facing countries and to creating 
        stable, functioning democracies. Investing in the capacity of 
        such organizations, including women's organizations, and in 
        their roles in the development process shall be an important, 
        cross-cutting objective of United States bilateral development 
        assistance.''; and
            (2) in subsection (b)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1), by adding at the end the 
                following new sentence: ``The principles described in 
                this paragraph shall, among other strategies, be 
                accomplished through partnerships with local, 
                indigenous, nongovernmental, and community-based 
                organizations, as well as financial service providers, 
                that represent the interests of women.''; and
                    (B) in paragraph (6), by adding at the end the 
                following new sentence: ``Such participation and 
                improvement shall be encouraged and promoted by, among 
                other strategies, investing in the capacity of and 
                participation in local, indigenous, nongovernmental, 
                and community-based organizations, especially women's 
                organizations, dedicated to addressing the needs of 
                women.''.
    (b) Assistance.--The Secretary of State, acting through the 
Administrator of the United States Agency for International 
Development, shall, where appropriate--
            (1) ensure project proposals include capacity building and 
        technical assistance for local, indigenous, nongovernmental, 
        organizations and community-based organizations dedicated to 
        addressing the needs of women, especially women's 
        organizations, to promote the long-term sustainability of 
        projects;
            (2) provide information and training to local, indigenous, 
        nongovernmental, and community-based organizations, especially 
        women's organizations, focused on women's empowerment in 
        countries in which missions of the United States Agency for 
        International Development are located in order to--
                    (A) provide technical assistance with respect to 
                United States foreign assistance procurement 
                procedures; and
                    (B) undertake culturally appropriate outreach 
                measures to contact such organizations;
            (3) encourage recipients of United States technical and 
        financial aid to the maximum extent practicable, to provide 
        financial support to local, indigenous, nongovernmental, and 
        community-based organizations that focus on women's 
        empowerment, including women's organizations and other 
        organizations that may not have previously worked with the 
        United States or a partner of the United States, in fulfilling 
        project objectives;
            (4) work with local governments to conduct outreach 
        campaigns to register, as required by local laws and 
        regulations, unofficial local, indigenous, nongovernmental, and 
        community-based organizations, especially women's 
        organizations; and
            (5) support efforts of indigenous organizations, especially 
        women's organizations, focused on women's empowerment to 
        network with other indigenous women's groups to collectively 
        access funding opportunities to implement United States foreign 
        assistance programs.

SEC. 13. REPORT.

    (a) Report Required.--Not later than June 30, 2011, the Secretary 
of State, acting through the Administrator of the United States Agency 
for International Development, shall submit to Congress a report on the 
implementation of this Act and the amendments made by this Act.
    (b) Update.--Not later than June 30, 2012, the Secretary of State, 
acting through the Administrator of the United States Agency for 
International Development, shall submit to Congress an update of the 
report required by subsection (a).
    (c) Availability to Public.--The report required by subsection (a) 
and the update required by subsection (b) shall be made available to 
the public on the Internet websites of the Department of State and the 
United States Agency for International Development.

SEC. 14. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    (a) In General.--There are authorized to be appropriated to the 
Secretary of State to carry out sections 10 and 11--
            (1) $40,000,000 for fiscal year 2011; and
            (2) such sums as may be necessary for each of the fiscal 
        years 2012 and 2013.
    (b) Availability.--Amounts appropriated pursuant to the 
authorization of appropriations under subsection (a)--
            (1) are authorized to remain available until expended; and
            (2) shall supplement and not supplant any other amounts 
        available for the purposes described in sections 10 and 11.
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