and partners including the Executive Office of the 
President, the National Security Council, the De-
partment of Defense, the Department of State, the 
Peace Corps, and the Millennium Challenge Cor-
poration, and the US Institute of Peace; 
(2) support an interagency working group fo-
cused on the harmonization of the United States 
Foreign Assistance Youth, Peace, and Security Ac-
tion Plan established under section 7 with ap-
proaches and key learning from existing peace and 
security strategies, such as the United States Strat-
egy on Women, Peace, and Security and the Global 
Fragility Act, and leverage learning other relevant 
policies and strategies to inform the Action Plan’s 
approach, such as USAID’s Digital Strategy the 
USG Global Strategy to Empower Adolescent Girls; 
and 
(3) engage multilateral agencies and other key 
youth, peace, and security stakeholders from the im-
plementing community, youth-led organizations, and 
the private sector to help inform the development of 
the Action Plan, including by— 
(A) engaging the multilateral community 
in a call to action to help inform and surface 
key evidence, data, and measurement indicators 
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to track youth in development and youth, peace, 
and security programming; and 
(B) engaging youth-led and youth-serving 
organizations and networks to inform youth en-
gagement in the Action Plan. 
SEC. 7. UNITED STATES FOREIGN ASSISTANCE YOUTH, 
PEACE, AND SECURITY ACTION PLAN. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than one year after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the USAID Youth Coor-
dinator, in coordination with the USAID Administrator 
and the Secretary of State, and the Secretary of Defense, 
shall coordinate the development and implementation of 
the United States Foreign Assistance Youth, Peace, and 
Security Action Plan to accomplish the policy objective de-
scribed in section 4, which shall— 
(1) consistent with the goals, priorities, and ap-
proach of the USAID Youth In Development Policy, 
identify barriers and opportunities to meaningfully 
integrate and engage diverse youth in the full pro-
gram cycle of interventions that are relevant to 
youth, peace, and security (e.g., youth-led research, 
assessment, and consultation; program design and 
implementation; monitoring, learning, and evalua-
tion); 
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(2) prioritize funding programs that build the 
assets, agency, and capacity of youth engaged in 
peacebuilding, violence prevention, mediation, nego-
tiation, and peacekeeping, at the community level 
and through meaningful youth participation in deci-
sion making and in formal spaces and institutions; 
(3) ensure that capacity-building and youth en-
gagement programs take a systems-based and inter-
generational approach by engaging key institutions 
and stakeholders. such as peers and peer mentors, 
family and community members, educators, religious 
leaders, and policy leaders; 
(4) encourage the development of youth-inclu-
sive reconciliation, disengagement, and reintegration 
programs; 
(5) support inclusive education with a focus on 
mother-language and cultural pride, and context-spe-
cific critical thinking skills, relationship-based and 
skill-building learning, and conflict resolution; 
(6) through the USG’s geographical reach, ex-
perience working with vulnerable children and youth 
on the ground, existing partnerships and themati-
cally linked programs, and USAID’s Digital Strat-
egy as a vehicle, address diverse forms of digital 
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harm to children and youth, learn from these experi-
ences and continue to strengthen interventions; 
(7) utilize and promote safe and accessible dig-
ital platforms and networks to strengthen and pro-
mote 
youth 
dialogue 
and 
participation 
in 
peacebuilding efforts; 
(8) specifically address the impact that the 
growing digital ecosystem play in— 
(A) achieving or impeding the inclusive 
and meaningful participation of youth in 
peacebuilding efforts and political processes; 
and 
(B) radicalization and recruitment; 
(9) include youth in assessments of United 
States peace and security initiatives; 
(10) encourage government partners to ensure 
inclusive participation of youth in formal peace and 
political transition processes, including in national 
dialogues; civic engagement and political participa-
tion; reconciliation; and other political processes re-
lated to peace and security; and 
(11) assist youth to create a more secure envi-
ronment in which youth actors may better carry out 
their work in peace and security in relation to the 
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Action Plan and promote the physical and psycho-
logical recovery of young survivors of armed conflict. 
(b) REGIONAL PLANS.—Such Plan shall include spe-
cific implementation issues and considerations to be made 
in consultation with each regional bureau of USAID and 
the Department of State as part of the ongoing planning 
processes within USAID, including relevant Country De-
velopment Cooperation Strategies and Joint Regional 
Strategies. 
SEC. 8. DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE TO EXPAND TRAINING, 
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, AND GRANTS MAN-
AGED AND CONTROLLED BY YOUTH LEAD-
ERS. 
(a) YOUTH, PEACE, AND SECURITY FUND.—The 
USAID Youth Coordinator is authorized to establish a 
grant program through an implementation mechanism as 
determined by the Youth Coordinator, using amounts 
from the Youth, Peace, and Security fund made available 
pursuant to paragraph (3), may provide grants, emer-
gency assistance, and technical assistance to eligible 
youth-led 
civil 
society 
organizations 
and 
youth 
peacebuilding implementers who seek to achieve— 
(1) peacebuilding; 
(2) improved economic security; 
(3) community violence intervention; 
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