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This document articulates the policies the United States intends to implement toward a comprehensive, multi-sector strategy for preventing and responding to gender-based violence worldwide. The strategys stated objectives are: 1) coordination of gender-based violence prevention and response efforts among US government agencies and other stakeholders ;2) enhanced integration of gender-based violence prevention into foreign policy goals; 3) improvement of data gathering and research on response efforts; and 4) enhancement and expansion of programming to address gender-based violence. The methods necessary to achieve these objectives are detailed specifically and at length.