Sec. 7. Reports required
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Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Secretary of State, in coordination with the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report on the progress made by the United States and by partners in the implementation or delivery of humanitarian assistance, including international organizations, to prevent, mitigate, and address the incidence of gender-based violence in humanitarian emergencies. The report required by paragraph
(1)shall include each of the following: An aggregation and examination of data and research regarding the key drivers of gender-based violence in humanitarian emergencies, the critical needs of and services required by survivors or those at risk, and successful program models to address, prevent, and mitigate such violence. A detailed description of the programs, diplomatic efforts, and other activities undertaken by the United States to implement the Safe from the Start programming focus described in section 4(a) of this Act, including specific descriptions of— the steps taken to integrate prevention, mitigation, and response to gender-based violence into humanitarian assistance, development of humanitarian standards, and responses to specific humanitarian crises; the progress made, as of the date of the submission of the report, toward achieving specific objectives, metrics, and indicators for implementation of Safe from the Start programming, disaggregated, where appropriate, by gender, age, and type of violence; a list of the projects funded or supported through the Safe from the Start programming focus, with specific details on levels of funding or assistance and impacts of such projects disaggregated, where appropriate, by gender, age, and type of violence; an assessment of the extent to which consultations with nongovernmental organizations, including local actors, and intergovernmental actors have led to the development of programs, standards, and interventions to combat gender-based violence a list of the policies or programs implemented by international or multilateral organizations receiving funding from the United States Government to improve capacity and internal protocols to identify signs of gender-based violence, including sexual exploitation and abuse, and integrate initiatives to prevent and respond to gender-based violence into all programs of the organization; and a description of any diplomatic action taken bilaterally, multilaterally, or with international organizations to encourage the governments of other countries and international organizations to adopt policies to prevent and respond to gender-based violence in emergency situations, including any diplomatic efforts to strengthen the Global Call to Action on Protection from Gender-Based Violence in Emergencies by increasing the number of governments participating in and contributing to its gender-based violence prevention and response activities. In developing the report required by paragraph (1), the Secretary of State shall consult with the Assistant Secretary for Population, Refugees, and Migration of the Department of State and the Associate Administrator for Humanitarian Assistance of the Agency for International Development. The report required by paragraph
(1)shall be submitted in unclassified form but may include a classified annex. The unclassified portion of such report shall concurrently be published on a publicly available website of the Department of State. Not later than 120 days after the submission of each budget submitted to Congress by the President under section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a budget crosscut report that— displays the budget proposed, including any planned interagency or intra-agency transfer, for each of the principal Federal agencies that will be carrying out activities through the Safe from the Start programming focus described in section 4(a) of this Act in the fiscal year for which such budget is submitted; separately reports the amount of funding to be provided pertaining to the Safe from the Start strategy under subsection (a), to the extent such plans are available; and to the extent practicable, identifies all assistance and research expenditures at the account level in each of the five previous fiscal years by the Federal Government using Federal funds for Safe from the Start activities. In this section, the term appropriate congressional committees means— the Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives; and the Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate.