Sec. 8. Engaging women in the full range of conflict prevention, peace negotiation, peace-building, and security initiatives
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The Secretary and the Administrator are strongly encouraged to work to facilitate women’s meaningful inclusion and participation in informal and formal peace negotiations, including, as appropriate by— providing technical assistance, training, and logistical support to female negotiators, peace-builders, and stakeholders; utilizing technology, such as cell phones or social media tools, that assist the work of organizers, negotiators, communicators, peace-builders, and other civil society actors; addressing security-related barriers to women’s participation; expanding and applying gender analysis to improve program design and targeting; and supporting appropriate local organizations, especially women’s peace-building organizations.
The Secretary is encouraged to promote the meaningful inclusion and participation of women in coordination and consultation with international partners, including multilateral organizations, stakeholders, and other relevant international organizations, particularly in circumstances in which direct engagement is not appropriate or advisable. The Secretary, in consultation with the Administrator, and in cooperation with the Secretary of Defense, as appropriate, shall conduct assessments that include the perspective of women before implementing new projects or activities in support of assistance related to— peace negotiations; transitional justice and accountability processes; efforts to combat violent extremism; and security sector reform.
The Secretary, in consultation with the Administrator, and in cooperation with the Secretary of Defense and the heads of other relevant Federal agencies, as appropriate, shall encourage and facilitate the efforts of partner governments to improve women’s meaningful inclusion and participation in peace and security processes, conflict prevention, peace-building, transitional processes, and decisionmaking institutions in conflict-affected environments. The efforts of partner governments to be encouraged and facilitated under paragraph
(1)include— the recruitment and retention of women (including minorities) in leadership roles; capacity building of legislative, judicial, defense, and law enforcement institutions to develop and implement policies which support women’s meaningful inclusion and participation; increased women’s participation in programs funded by the United States Government that— provide training to foreign nationals regarding law enforcement, the rule of law, and professional military education; and offer foreign nationals opportunities to participate in educational exchanges, conferences, and seminars; training, education, and mobilization of men and boys as partners in support of women’s meaningful inclusion and participation; development of transitional justice and accountability mechanisms that are inclusive of the experiences and perspectives of women and girls; and measures to ensure that relief and recovery planning and assistance are informed by effective consultation with women and girls.