Today, the White House submitted the first biennial report to Congress on implementation of the Global Fragility Act (GFA) and its associated U.S. Strategy to Prevent Conflict and Promote Stability (SPCPS), focused on the priority countries of Haiti, Libya, Mozambique, Papua New Guinea, and the Coastal West African nations of Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, and Togo.
The U.S. government has advanced the goals of this bipartisan legislation, enacted during the previous administration, through innovative whole of government engagement. It has applied lessons learned to improve the effectiveness of U.S. investments and fostered structural changes that reinforce national and local capacities to prevent violent conflict and instability.
America's prosperity and security depend on peaceful, self-reliant economic and security partners. As a pillar of this initiative, the U.S. government has pursued more structured engagement with our bilateral partners and multilateral institutions and invested in collaborative programming and funding mechanisms to achieve shared priorities. These essential partnerships are enabling the United States to better address complex challenges that threaten U.S. interests across the globe.
Since the GFA's enactment in 2019, the U.S. government has invested to build resilience with our partners and to operate more strategically and effectively. These investments help to tip outcomes toward peace and stability in a world with increasingly complex, enduring, and frequent conflicts. Over the coming years, with sustained leadership and alignment of diplomatic, development, and defense resources, the U.S. government will deepen key partnerships, adapt based on learning, and refine the model for more effective U.S. engagement on conflict prevention and stabilization.
