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Women in Development Act of 1988

Introduced: March 1, 1988 See on congress.gov
 Everywhere this bill has been 6 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Apr 28, 1988
Unfavorable Executive Comment Received From AID.
Apr 28, 1988
Unfavorable Executive Comment Received From Agency for International Development.
Apr 28, 1988
Unfavorable Executive Comment Received From International Development.
Apr 28, 1988
Unfavorable Executive Comment Received From International Development Fund.
Mar 1, 1988
Referred to House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Mar 1, 1988
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Women in Development Act of 1988 - Requires the Administrator of the Agency for International Development (AID) to take specific steps to strengthen the Agency's women in development policy, including: (1) incorporating the active participation of local women and local women's organizations in its development activities; (2) instructing Agency staff and contractors to collect sex-disaggregated data and to insure that country strategies, projects, and programs are designed so that the percentage of women receiving assistance in proportion to the higher of their traditional participation in the targeted activities or their proportion of the population; (3) insuring that project and program evaluations include an assessment of the extent to which the project integrates women in the development process and of the project's impact on women; (4) increasing the number and responsibility of women in professional positions within AID; and (5) establishing within AID a task force on women in development.

Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to require that a minimum (currently, maximum) of $10,000,000 in funds made available for foreign assistance programs be used for programs to promote the participation and integration of women in the development process in developing countries.

Requires the Administrator to report to the Congress annually on the implementation of this Act.

Authorizes appropriations to be made available for the United Nations Development Fund for Women and the United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women.

What's happening now April 28, 1988

Unfavorable Executive Comment Received From AID.

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