Combating Gender Ideology in Foreign Assistance

What it does

To implement the foreign policy objective of the United States not to support the promotion of gender ideology overseas, the U.S. Department of State (Department) is adding a new award term for grants, cooperative agreements, and voluntary contributions entitled "Combating Gender Ideology in Foreign Assistance." The award term imposes certain requirements relating to gender ideology on foreign nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), United States NGOs, international organizations, foreign governments, and parastatals. The award term is issued consistent with the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (FAA) and other foreign assistance authorities such as the FREEDOM Support Act, the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962, and the SEED Act of 1989, which authorize the Department to provide foreign assistance on such terms and conditions as the President, and by delegation, the Secretary of State, may determine. Consistent with past Mexico City Policy protocol, the provision will be incorporated as applicable into grants and cooperative agreements when new funds are added as well as into new awards.

The State Department's summary, as published in the Federal Register.

What changed in the regulation

1 part of Title 2 of the Code of Federal Regulations:

2 CFR 603

Wording on eCFR: the day before it took effect and from the day it took effect (first part listed).

Compared with

The State Department has published 23 final rules in 2026 so far, compared with 9 in all of 2025.

Counted by the Tribune from Federal Register records since Jan. 1, 2025.

Before this

No earlier Federal Register document under regulation identifier 1400-AG25 since Jan. 1, 2025.

What happens next and when

The rule is effective February 26, 2026.

The agency's dates, word for word.

Check it yourself

• The document in the Federal Register
• Title 2 on eCFR

The record as published

Source: the Federal Register (public domain). The document in the Federal Register