Recognizing the disproportionate impact of COVID–19 on women and girls globally.

reaffirms the critical importance of gender balance and inclusivity in bodies responsible for coordination and decision making related to the COVID–19 crisis, including in structures and task forces of the United States Government charged with developing policies and responses to the crisis;

promotes integrating a gender lens throughout the response to the COVID–19 crisis by analyzing and tracking the effect of and response to the crisis on gender, including gathering evidence from data that is disaggregated by gender, age, and other specific variables;

supports measures to ensure that life-saving health services including sexual and reproductive health and gender-based violence prevention and response are well resourced and supported, including within the COVID–19 Global Humanitarian Response Plan coordinated by the United Nations, and that funding earmarked for those services is not reduced, canceled, or diverted to other COVID–19 response activities;

supports measures to ensure the continuation of adequate food and nutrition security for women and girls around the world affected by COVID–19, including women smallholder farmers and other women working in agriculture, in light of the unique challenges described in the preamble of this resolution;

reinforces the need to ensure that short-term relief programming and longer-term economic strategies address the specific effects of COVID–19 on women globally, especially lower income, migrant, displaced, and other marginalized women;

urges the executive branch to uphold the rights of crisis-affected and forcibly displaced populations, including women and girls, further affected by COVID–19, by promoting compliance with international humanitarian and human rights legal obligations and engaging parties to conflicts to ensure unhindered access to health care, medical supplies, and other vital aid and protection;

supports robust funding contributions by the United States for the international response to the COVID–19 crisis in addition to further funding for ongoing humanitarian appeals in support of vulnerable women and girls affected by COVID–19 and underlying emergencies; and

commits to continuously assess and eliminate any impediment to the delivery of and access to humanitarian assistance.