Preventing and Responding to Violence Against Women and Girls Globally
Creates United States Strategy and Working Group to Prevent Global Gender-Based Violence
What it does
Agencies must implement a multi-year strategy and coordinate through a new interagency Working Group to prevent and respond to gender-based violence globally.
Real-world impact
- Creates new coordination across government for international gender-based violence programs.
- Requires better data, research, and monitoring of violence and prevention efforts.
- Supports expanding or replicating successful programs in affected countries, subject to funding.
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Summary
This executive order requires the United States government to adopt a multi-year strategy to prevent and respond to gender-based violence worldwide and creates an interagency Working Group to implement it.
The Working Group, co-chaired by the Secretary of State and the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, must coordinate agencies, strengthen data and research, integrate prevention into foreign policy and aid, and expand programs while engaging governments, civil society, and survivors to reduce harms.
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