Sec. 3. Actions to improve gender policies of the United States Agency for International Development
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It shall be the development cooperation policy of the United States— to reduce gender disparities in access to, control over, and benefit from economic, social, political, and cultural resources, wealth, opportunities, and services; to strive to eliminate gender-based violence and mitigate its harmful effects on individuals and communities through efforts to develop standards and capacity to reduce gender-based violence in the workplace and other places where women conduct work; to support activities that secure private property rights and land tenure for women in developing countries, including legal frameworks to give women equal rights to own, register, use, profit from, and inherit land and property, legal literacy to exercise these rights, and capacity of law enforcement and community leaders to enforce such rights; and to increase the capability of women and girls to realize their rights, determine their life outcomes, assume leadership roles, and influence decisionmaking in households, communities, and societies.
In order to advance the policy described in subsection (a), the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development shall ensure that— strategies, projects, and activities of the Agency are shaped by a gender analysis and, when applicable, use standard indicators to provide one measure of success of such strategies, projects, and activities; and gender equality and female empowerment is integrated throughout the Agency’s Program Cycle and related processes for purposes of strategic planning, project design and implementation, and monitoring and evaluation.
In this section, the term gender analysis — means a socioeconomic analysis of available or gathered quantitative and qualitative information to identify, understand, and explain gaps between men and women which typically involves examining— differences in the status of women and men and their differential access to and control over assets, resources, opportunities, and services; the influence of gender roles, structural barriers, and norms on the division of time between paid employment, unpaid work (including subsistence production and care for family members), and volunteer activities; the influence of gender roles, structural barriers, and norms on leadership roles and decisionmaking; constraints, opportunities, and entry points for narrowing gender gaps and empowering women; and potential differential impacts of development policies and programs on men and women, including unintended or negative consequences; and includes conclusions and recommendations to enable development policies and programs to narrow gender gaps and improve the lives of women and girls.