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through the Global Fragility Initiative estab-
lished pursuant to section 6. 
(B) ADDITION.—Amounts authorized to be 
appropriated to the Fund are in addition to any 
amounts otherwise made available for the pur-
poses described in subparagraph (A). 
(4) LIMITATIONS.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—Amounts in the Fund 
may not be expended for lethal assistance or to 
respond to natural disasters. 
(B) 
ADMINISTRATIVE
EXPENSES.—Not 
more than 5 percent of amounts in the Fund 
may be used for administrative expenses. 
(5) CONGRESSIONAL NOTIFICATION.—Not later 
than 5 days before amounts from the Fund are obli-
gated, the Administrator of the United States Agen-
cy for International Development shall submit notifi-
cation of such obligation to— 
(A) the Committee on Foreign Relations of 
the Senate; 
(B) the Committee on Appropriations of 
the Senate; 
(C) the Committee on Foreign Affairs of 
the House of Representatives; and 
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(D) the Committee on Appropriations of 
the House of Representatives. 
(6) WAIVER.—Notification in accordance with 
paragraph (5) may be waived if— 
(A) notification by the deadline specified in 
such paragraph would pose a substantial risk to 
human health or welfare; and 
(B) the congressional committees specified 
in such paragraph— 
(i) are notified not later than 3 days 
after an obligation of amounts from the 
Fund; and 
(ii) are provided with an explanation 
of the emergency circumstances that neces-
sitated such waiver. 
(c) OTHER FUNDING AND COST MATCHING.—The 
Global Fragility Initiative established pursuant to section 
6— 
(1) may be supported by funds other than 
funds authorized to be appropriated pursuant to this 
section; and 
(2) shall seek to leverage funds from sources 
other than the United States Government in order 
to promote coordination and cost-matching to the 
maximum extent practicable. 
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SEC. 5. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING ASSISTANCE FOR 
THE GLOBAL FRAGILITY INITIATIVE. 
It is the sense of Congress that the President, the 
Secretary of State, the Administrator of USAID, the Sec-
retary of Defense, and the heads of other relevant Federal 
departments and agencies should work with the appro-
priate congressional committees to provide sufficient types 
and levels of funding to— 
(1) allow for more adaptive and responsive pol-
icy and program planning, implementation, and scal-
ing under the Global Fragility Initiative established 
pursuant to section 6, including through more flexi-
ble funding mechanisms and exemptions from spe-
cific and minimum funding levels when such exemp-
tions would make such programs better able to re-
spond to local needs, the results of monitoring and 
evaluation, or changed circumstances in relevant 
countries; 
(2) better integrate the initiative and other con-
flict and violence reduction objectives and activities 
into other policy and program areas, where appro-
priate; and 
(3) support transparent and accountable multi-
lateral funds, initiatives, and strategies to enhance 
and better coordinate both private and public efforts 
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to stabilize conflict-affected areas and prevent vio-
lence and fragility globally. 
SEC. 6. GLOBAL FRAGILITY INITIATIVE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.— 
(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary of State, 
in coordination with the Administrator of the United 
States 
Agency 
for 
International 
Development 
(USAID), the Secretary of Defense, the Atrocities 
Prevention Board (or any successor entity), and the 
heads of other relevant Federal departments and 
agencies, shall, in accordance with subsection (b), es-
tablish an interagency initiative, to be referred to as 
the ‘‘Global Fragility Initiative’’, to stabilize conflict- 
affected areas and prevent violence and fragility 
globally. 
(2) STAKEHOLDER CONSULTATION.—The Glob-
al Fragility Initiative required under this subsection 
shall be developed in consultation with representa-
tives of local civil society and national and local gov-
ernance entities, as well as relevant international de-
velopment organizations with experience imple-
menting programs in fragile and violence-affected 
communities, multilateral organizations and donors, 
and relevant private, academic, and philanthropic 
entities, as appropriate. 
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(b) ESTABLISHMENT PLAN.—Not later than 180 
days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Sec-
retary of State, in coordination with the Administrator of 
USAID, the Secretary of Defense, the Atrocities Preven-
tion Board (or any successor entity), and the heads of 
other relevant Federal departments and agencies, shall 
submit to the appropriate congressional committees an 
interagency plan regarding the establishment of the Global 
Fragility Initiative pursuant to subsection (a) that in-
cludes the following: 
(1) Identification of the roles and responsibil-
ities of each participating Federal department or 
agency, while ensuring that— 
(A) the Department of State is the overall 
lead department for establishing United States 
foreign policy and advancing diplomatic and po-
litical efforts; 
(B) USAID is the lead implementing agen-
cy for development, humanitarian, and related 
non-security program policy; 
(C) where appropriate, the Department of 
Defense may support the activities of the De-
partment of State and USAID by providing 
requisite security and support to civilian efforts 
with the joint-formulation, coordination, and 
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concurrence of the Secretary of State and Ad-
ministrator of USAID; and 
(D) other Federal departments and agen-
cies support the activities of the Department of 
State and USAID as appropriate, with the con-
currence of the Secretary of State and Adminis-
trator of USAID. 
(2) Identification of which officials of the De-
partment of State, USAID, and the Department of 
Defense, with a rank not lower than Assistant Sec-
retary or Assistant Administrator, as the case may 
be, will be responsible for overseeing and leading the 
initiative. 
(3) Identification of the authorities, staffing, 
and other resource requirements needed to effec-
tively implement the initiative. 
(4) Descriptions of the organizational steps the 
Secretary of State, the Administrator, the Secretary 
of Defense, and the head of each other relevant Fed-
eral department or agency will take to improve plan-
ning, 
coordination, 
implementation, 
assessment, 
monitoring, evaluation, adaptive management, and 
iterative learning with respect to the programs car-
ried out under the initiative. 
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(5) Descriptions of the steps the Secretary of 
State, the Administrator, the Secretary of Defense, 
and the head of each other relevant Federal depart-
ment or agency will take to ensure appropriate host- 
country ownership and to improve coordination and 
collaboration under the initiative with international 
development organizations, international donors, 
multilateral organizations, and the private sector. 
(6) Descriptions of potential areas of improved 
public and private sector research and development, 
including with academic, philanthropic, and civil so-
ciety organizations, on data collection efforts and 
more effective approaches to stabilize conflict-af-
fected areas and prevent violence and fragility glob-
ally. 
(7) Descriptions of the processes for regularly 
evaluating and updating the initiative on an iterative 
basis, including regarding priority country and re-
gional plans described in subsection (d). 
(8) A list of priority countries and regions se-
lected pursuant to subsection (c), including descrip-
tions of the rationale for such selections. 
(c) SELECTION OF PRIORITY COUNTRIES AND RE-
GIONS.—The Secretary of State, in coordination with the 
Administrator of USAID and the Secretary of Defense, 
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and in consultation with the appropriate congressional 
committees, shall select certain countries as ‘‘priority 
countries’’ and certain regions as ‘‘priority regions’’ for 
the Global Fragility Initiative— 
(1) on the basis of— 
(A) clearly defined indicators of the levels 
of violence or fragility in such country or re-
gion, such as the country or region’s— 
(i) ranking on recognized global fra-
gility lists, such as the Organization for 
Economic Co-operation and Development 
States of Fragility report, the Fund for 
Peace Fragile States Index, the World 
Bank Harmonized List of Fragile Situa-
tions, the Institute for Economics and 
Peace Global Peace Index, and Holocaust 
Museum Early Warning Project Risk As-
sessment; 
(ii) ranking on select United States 
Government conflict and atrocity early 
warning watch lists; and 
(iii) levels of violence, such as violence 
committed by armed groups, violent ex-
tremist organizations, gender-based vio-
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lence, and violence against children and 
youth; and 
(B) an assessment of— 
(i) the capacity and commitment of 
national and sub-national government enti-
ties and civil society partners in such coun-
try or region to work with Federal depart-
ments and agencies on the initiative, in-
cluding by demonstrating the willingness 
and making demonstrable efforts to im-
prove governance, enhance rule of law, and 
protect human rights; and 
(ii) the likelihood that selection as a 
priority country or priority region would 
allow the initiative to measurably stabilize 
conflict-affected areas or prevent violence 
and fragility in such country or region; and 
(2) in a manner that ensures that— 
(A) not fewer than three countries or re-
gions are designated as ‘‘Stabilization Coun-
tries’’ or ‘‘Stabilization Regions’’, as the case 
may be, in which current levels of violence are 
among the highest in the world; 
(B) not fewer than three countries or re-
gions are designated as ‘‘Prevention Countries’’ 
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or ‘‘Prevention Regions’’, as the case may be, 
in which current levels of violence are lower 
than such levels in Stabilization Countries or 
Stabilization Regions but risk factors for vio-
lence or fragility are significant; 
(C) countries and regions selected are in 
the areas of responsibility of at least three geo-
graphic bureaus of the Department of State; 
and 
(D) regions, rather than individual coun-
tries, are selected where the threat or spillover 
of violence, conflict, or fragility threatens mul-
tiple countries within a single geographic re-
gion. 
(d) COUNTRY
AND REGIONAL PLANS.—Not later 
than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
the Secretary of State, in coordination with the Adminis-
trator of USAID, the Secretary of Defense, the Atrocities 
Prevention Board (or any successor entity), and the heads 
of other relevant Federal departments and agencies, shall 
submit to the appropriate congressional committees 10- 
year plans to align and integrate under the Global Fra-
gility Initiative required under subsection (a) all relevant 
diplomatic, development, security assistance and coopera-
tion, and other relevant activities of the United States 
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Government with respect to each of the countries and re-
gions selected pursuant to subsection (c). Each such coun-
try and regional plan shall include the following: 
(1) Specific multi-year interagency plans for co-
ordination and implementation under each such 
plan. 
(2) An up-to-date baseline analysis for each 
such country or region, including an analysis of po-
litical dynamics, impacts of violence, and conditions 
that contribute to violence and fragility. 
(3) Prioritized descriptions of the goals and ob-
jectives for stabilizing conflict-affected areas and 
preventing violence and fragility in each such coun-
try or region. 
(4) Descriptions of how and when the relevant 
goals, objectives, plans, and benchmarks for each 
such country or region will be incorporated into rel-
evant United States country plans and strategies, in-
cluding Department of State Integrated Country 
Strategies, USAID Country Development Coopera-
tion Strategies, and Department of Defense Cam-
paign Plans, Operational Plans, and Regional Strat-
egies, as well as any equivalent or successor plans or 
strategies. 
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