[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 102 (Thursday, July 9, 2009)]
[Senate]
[Pages S7321-S7324]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

      By Mr. DURBIN (for himself, Mrs. Hutchison, Ms. Collins, Ms. 
        Landrieu, Mrs. Shaheen, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Casey, Mr. Whitehouse, 
        Mr. Johnson, and Mrs. Gillibrand):
  S. 1425. A bill to increase the United States financial and 
programmatic contributions to promote economic opportunities for women 
in developing countries; to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
  Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the text of 
the bill be printed in the Record.
  There being no objection, the text of the bill was ordered to be 
printed in the Record, as follows:

                                S. 1425

       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

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       (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 
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     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

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     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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