9. Agency for International Development · Notable
Eliminate USAID's 180-plus gender advisors and points of contact
Printed page 259 9. Agency for International Development
“The next conservative Administration should rename the USAID Office of Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment (GEWE) as the USAID Office of Women, Children, and Families; refocus and realign resources that currently support programs in GEWE to the Office of Women, Children, and Families; redesignate the Senior Gender Coordinator as an unapologetically pro-life politically appointed Senior Coordinator of the Office of Women, Children, and Families; and eliminate the “more than 180 gender advisors and points of contact…embedded in Missions and Operating Units throughout the Agency.””
What has happened
- Done
The gender advisers and points of contact were embedded in USAID's missions and operating units, all of which ceased to exist when the agency stopped implementing foreign assistance on 2025-07-01. The successor's budget carries no gender staffing: the word "gender" does not appear anywhere in the FY2027 State Congressional Budget Justification, and State reported to Congress that it allocated no FY2025 funding at all to the Gender Equity and Equality Action Fund.
- Secretary Rubio, "Making Foreign Aid Great Again" (State Department Spanish translation): as of July 1 USAID officially ceases to implement foreign assistance
- FY 2027 Department of State Congressional Budget Justification
- Report to Congress: All Funding Made Available in Fiscal Year 2025 for the Gender Equity and Equality Action Fund
- Attempted
Executive Order 14151 required agencies to terminate all DEI and DEIA offices and positions within 60 days; Executive Order 14168 directed agencies to remove all policies promoting gender ideology and to end the federal funding of gender ideology.
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Research notes
- Every source relied on for this item is on our evidence allowlist and was read; nothing found was off the allowlist or unreadable.
- Action
- eliminate
- Object
- USAID gender advisors and points of contact
- ID
- 663