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out by other relevant departments and 
agencies of the United States Govern-
ment; and 
‘‘(II) coordinating existing and 
future efforts needed to achieve en-
hanced coordination between the De-
partment of State and the United 
States Agency for International Devel-
opment and other relevant depart-
ments and agencies of the United 
States Government in the design and 
implementation of reconstruction pro-
grams; 
‘‘(v) include a plan to enhance moni-
toring, evaluation, and oversight of recon-
struction programs to ensure the effective 
impact of such programs on Afghanistan 
and its people; 
‘‘(vi) provide a plan to identify and 
implement 
critical 
reconstruction 
pro-
grams, by project, including in the areas of 
security, rule of law, counter-narcotics, 
power, 
rural 
development, 
education, 
health, and governance and anti-corrup-
tion, that will improve the security and 
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economic stability of Afghanistan, and the 
amount of funding needed to implement 
such programs; 
‘‘(vii) include actions to significantly 
increase contributions from countries par-
ticipating in ISAF and from other inter-
national partners for reconstruction pro-
grams, including in the areas of security, 
rule of law, counternarcotics, power, rural 
development, education, health, and gov-
ernance and anti-corruption sectors; 
‘‘(viii) provide a plan to improve the 
employment situation in Afghanistan, in-
cluding a plan to increase job creation op-
portunities and enhance private sector de-
velopment in Afghanistan; 
‘‘(ix) include actions to ensure en-
hancement of the capacity of the Govern-
ment of Afghanistan, on all levels, to re-
spond to the needs of its people; 
‘‘(x) include actions to enhance the 
design and implementation of programs 
carried out by the Government of Afghani-
stan, on all levels, including efforts to in-
crease funding and implementation of re-
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construction programs carried out by the 
National Solidarity Program; 
‘‘(xi) include a plan to increase sig-
nificantly the number of Provincial Recon-
struction Teams (PRTs), particularly in 
the southern and eastern regions of Af-
ghanistan by December 31, 2009, includ-
ing a review of the operation of and lessons 
learned from existing PRTs prior to the 
preparation of the strategy; 
‘‘(xii) clarify a single chain of com-
mand and operations plans for PRTs, in-
cluding their relationship with ISAF; 
‘‘(xiii) increase staffing, particularly 
staffing of civilian specialists, and increase 
staff training for PRTs; 
‘‘(xiv) incorporate measures to im-
prove the effectiveness of PRTs in pro-
viding reconstruction and development as-
sistance and in promoting security and sta-
bility in their areas of operations, including 
coordination between PRT civilian ele-
ments and ISAF reconstruction goals; and 
‘‘(xv) include efforts to ensure that a 
significant amount of the material, finan-
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