Sec. 3. Requirements relating to United States activities relating to South Sudan
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Activities described in subsections
(b)through
(e)that are carried out by the United States in South Sudan shall comply with the applicable requirements contained in such subsections. With respect to the governance of South Sudan, the applicable requirements are the following: Include the perspectives and advice from South Sudanese women’s organizations, networks, and leaders in United States policymaking related to the governance of South Sudan. Promote the inclusion of a significant number of women in the National Legislature and future legislative bodies to ensure that women’s full range of human rights are included and upheld in any constitution or legal structures of South Sudan. Promote the continuation and strengthening of the rights of women as the South Sudan Government transitions to a long-term government structure, and encourage the appointment of women to high level positions within South Sudanese Government. With respect to activities relating to post-conflict stability in South Sudan, the applicable requirements are the following: Ensure that a significant portion of United States development, humanitarian, and relief assistance is channeled to local and United States-based South Sudanese organizations, particularly South Sudanese women’s organizations. Provide technical assistance, training, and capacity-building for local organizations to ensure that United States funded efforts will be both effective and sustainable. Encourage United States organizations that receive funds authorized by this Act to partner with or create South Sudanese-led counterpart organizations and provide these organizations with significant financial resources, technical assistance, and capacity building. Provide direct financial and programmatic assistance to the Ministry of Women’s Affairs adequate to ensure that the Ministry is able to fulfill its mandate. Promote multiyear women-centered economic development programs, including programs to assist widows, female heads of household, women in rural areas, and disabled women. Increase women’s access to or ownership of productive assets such as land, water, agricultural inputs, credit, and property. Provide long-term financial assistance for primary, secondary, higher, nontraditional, and vocational education for South Sudanese girls, women, boys, and men. Provide financial assistance to build the health infrastructure and to deliver high-quality comprehensive health care programs, including primary, maternal, child, reproductive, and mental health care. Integrate education and training programs for former combatants with economic development programs to encourage their reintegration into society and to promote post-conflict stability. Provide assistance to rehabilitate children affected by the conflict, particularly child soldiers. Support educational efforts to increase awareness with respect to landmines, facilitate the removal of landmines, and provide services to individuals with disabilities caused by landmines. Include programs to prevent trafficking in persons, assist victims, and apprehend and prosecute traffickers in persons. With respect to training for military and police forces in South Sudan, the applicable requirements are the following: Include training on the protection, rights, and the particular needs of women and emphasize that violations of women’s rights are intolerable and should be prosecuted. Encourage such trainers who will carry out the activities in paragraph
(1)to consult with women’s organizations in South Sudan to ensure that training content and materials are adequate, appropriate, and comprehensive. With respect to the relief, resettlement, and repatriation of refugees and internally displaced in South Sudan, the applicable requirements are the following: Take all necessary steps to ensure that women refugees and internally displaced in camps, urban areas, and villages are directly receiving food aid, shelter, relief supplies, and other services from United States-sponsored programs. Take all necessary steps to ensure that women refugees in camps, urban areas, and villages are accessing high-quality health and medical services, including primary, maternal, child, and mental health services. Take all necessary steps to ensure that women and children in refugee camps are protected from sexual exploitation. Take all necessary steps to ensure refugees and internally displaced persons that seek to return to their place of origin can do so voluntarily, safely, and with the full protection of their rights. United States-sponsored efforts shall not coerce refugees or internally displaced persons to return to their places of origin.