can help to prevent infections, HIV, and pregnancy. (12) Empowering women to assume leadership roles in delivering humanitarian response and meaningfully engaging local organizations, including women’s rights, humanitarian, advocacy, and service-provider organizations, through training and directed resources to operate in emergency settings and provide life-saving assistance is critical to supporting survivors or those at risk of gender-based violence. (13) The international community has pri­or­i­tized addressing the issue of gender-based violence in humanitarian contexts by launching a Global Call to Action on Protection from Gender-Based Violence in Emergencies in 2013, which the United States operationalized through establishing a Safe from the Start initiative, implemented by the Department of State and the United States Agency for International Development. (14) Safe from the Start aimed to prevent and respond to gender-based violence at the onset of an emergency and to provide resources to strengthen the core capacity of humanitarian assistance implementers to address gender-based violence at the earliest phases of an emergency, including through developing training, guidelines, toolkits, and other resources to guide operations. (15) The Women’s Entrepreneurship and Economic Empowerment Act ( Public Law 115–428 ) requires the United States to strive to eliminate gender-based violence and mitigate its harmful effects on individuals and communities in its development cooperation policy. Recognizing the need to prevent and respond to gender-based violence globally, Congress has appropriated $150,000,000 annually from fiscal Years 2013–2019 for this purpose. (16) The United States has further committed to prevention and response to gender-based violence globally through the interagency United States Strategy to Prevent and Respond to Gender-Based Violence Globally, the National Action Plan on Women, Peace, and Security, the U.S. Global Strategy to Empower Adolescent Girls, U.S. Strategy to Support Women and