To help address the threat of violent conflict and its myriad consequences, the Biden Administration is set to implement the U.S. Strategy to Prevent Conflict and Promote Stability, as mandated by the 2019 Global Fragility Act. A key requirement of the Fragility Act is to enhance the effectiveness of U.S. assistance by “improving assessment, monitoring, and evaluation” by implementing agencies. As such, the Global Fragility Strategy (GFS) will use research and learning to inform and guide implementation, as one of its core objectives is to “develop a robust evidence base to address the long-term causes of conflict and fragility.”
This brief highlights a set of priority areas of inquiry to help build the evidence base for the GFS, and a set of key principles for how research and learning can be embedded in the new approach to partnership and integration proposed by the Global Fragility Strategy.