Sec. 6. Support for conflict resolution, mitigation and management, and reconciliation

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The President is authorized to provide financial, technical, and diplomatic support for— efforts by the African Union or other credible entities engaged in efforts to help bring about a peaceful resolution to the conflict in northern Ethiopia; and efforts by civil society, especially those from marginalized communities, women, and youth, to participate and engage in peacebuilding, mediation, and community reconciliation. The Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development shall develop and implement a strategy, coordinated with the Secretary as relevant, to support conflict mitigation and management, and reconciliation and trauma healing for conflict affected groups in Ethiopia that includes— an analysis of the drivers of conflict in Ethiopia; a comprehensive plan to mitigate and manage conflict; an emphasis on community-led grass roots reconciliation; specific steps the Agency will take to ensure the participation of traditionally marginalized communities and ethnic groups, women, and youth; plans to ensure that all assistance programs that are directly aimed at benefitting the Ethiopian people or building the capacity of civil society to incorporate, to the extent practicable, community-based conflict mitigation and management, violence prevention, peacebuilding interventions, reconciliation activities, psychosocial support, and trauma healing; a clear statement of— the goals and expected outcomes of the strategy; and the means through which progress towards those goals will be met including through regular rigorous evaluations; and plans for updating and revising the current Country Development Cooperation Strategy to include elements of the strategy required under this subsection.

The strategy required under subsection

(b)shall be submitted to the appropriate congressional committees not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.