The following Department of State Implementation Plan of the United States National Action Plan on Women, Peace, and Security (Department Implementation Plan) provides guidance for how the Department of State (Department), both in Washington and at U.S. embassies and consulates, can advance the NAP. In implementing the NAP, the Department demonstrates its unfaltering commitment for furthering the promotion of gender equality in service of America’s foreign policy and national security. This effort
builds upon the goals for gender integration included in the U.S. National Security Strategy (2010) and the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (2010). The U.S. Department of State Policy Guidance on Promoting Gender Equality (2012) further identifies peace and security as one of three priority areas in which advancing the status of women and girls and promoting gender equality should be integrated across our diplomacy.