PRIA, Government Policy, Made Personal

Summary

Multilateral development banks must make sure women in borrowing countries take part in choosing, planning, carrying out, and checking development projects. They must value women’s roles in the economy, schools, health, and feeding families. Banks must work to remove legal and customary barriers that stop women from fully taking part, like no access to credit, property rights, education, health care, or government services. Banks should also include local women’s groups when designing projects. The Treasury Secretary must tell U.S. representatives at the World Bank and other regional banks to support stronger Women-in-Development units and to set up or strengthen offices that promote women’s full integration. Each year, the National Advisory Council must report to Congress on what the banks have done.

Title 22, §262p–3

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(a)Congress hereby declares that it is the policy of the United States that multilateral development banks should—

(1)fully involve women in borrowing countries in the identification, planning, implementation, and evaluation of mainstream development activities financed by such banks;

(2)recognize and support women’s direct and indirect roles in the economic development of their countries and communities;

(3)recognize and support women’s direct and indirect roles in the education and social development of, the maintenance of the health of, and in the provision of adequate nutrition for, family members and communities, especially children;

(4)work to remove legal and customary barriers which impede the full participation of women in economic and social development, such as lack of access to credit, property rights, education, health care, and government services; and

(5)involve women’s groups in borrowing countries in project identification and preparation in order to factor their assessments of women’s economic and social needs into project design.

(b)The Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct—

(1)the United States Executive Director of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the International Development Association to support attempts to strengthen the role of the Women in Development division in policy development, project design and implementation, and evaluation; and

(2)the United States Executive Directors of the regional multilateral development banks to support exploring the establishment of a mechanism, or the strengthening of any existing mechanism, within each of the respective banks, to advise, advocate, and promote the full intergration 11 So in original. Probably should be “integration”. of women in the planning, design, implementation, and evaluation of lending activities both in borrowing countries and within the banks.

(c)Each annual report to the Congress by the National Advisory Council on International Monetary and Financial Policies shall describe the actions taken by the multilateral development banks to implement the policies established under this section.

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Editorial Notes

Codification section 1604 of Pub. L. 95–118 is based on section 701 of title VII of H.R. 3750, One Hundredth Congress, as introduced Dec. 11, 1987, and enacted into law by Pub. L. 100–202.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Definitions The definitions in section 262p–5 of this title apply to this section.

§262p–3 Participation of Women in Economic, Social and Policy Development Activities

Summary

Title 22, §262p–3

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