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= U.S. National Action Plan for Women, Peace and Security = President Barack Obama issued the first U.S. National Action Plan for Women, Peace and Security in December 2011 by Executive Order 13595, during the tenure of Hillary Rodham Clinton as his Secretary of State. The most recent version came out in June 2016. It is implemented by the United States Department of State through its Office of Global Women's Issues. The National Action Plan specifies initiatives and activities that will empower and enlist women and girls in efforts to achieve international peace and security.

The National Action Plan has five objectives: National Integration and Institutionalization, Participation in Peace Processes and Decision-making, Protection from Violence, Conflict Prevention, and Access to Relief and Recovery.

Reception and Implementation
The Department of State issued the first Implementation Plan in August 2012 to carry out the directives in the Executive Order. The Center for Strategic and International Studies hailed it as "unprecedented" and "historic," calling for peace and security professionals to engage in the issue area. The Council on Foreign Relations called it a "neglected issue" and convened a March 2012 roundable to address the issue of women's participation in the foreign policy community. The DC-based nonprofit Inclusive Security tracks the US National Action Plan as part of its National Action Plan Resource Center.

Achievements
In support of Objective 3 (Prevention from Violence), the State Department in August 2012 issued the U.S. Strategy to Prevent and Respond to Gender-based Violence Globally .

Challenges
As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton led the integration of women's issues as a core component of US foreign assistance and foreign policy. When she stepped down in 2012, some questioned whether the gains would be preserved. An opinion piece in POLITICO stated, "The challenges for women are still steep, but they are stepping up to take ownership of their futures like never before. It’s hard to imagine an effective U.S. engagement with the world that does not take this powerful global change into account."

In 2015, a Huffington Post piece on foreign policy in Afghanistan referred to the US National Action Plan, observing, "In the political world, there is often a long distance between words on a page and realities on the ground."

A 2015 New York Times article took President Obama to task for excluding women from regions impacted by violent extremism from a White House Summit on Countering Violent Extremism, "instead of honoring the U.S. NAP’s commitment to include women leaders."