political, diplomatic, security, and developmental benchmarks, timetables, and performance metrics for each such pilot country, with a focus on outcome metrics, including such metrics that capture grievances and patterns that cause violence and, where applicable, align with best practice indicators determined by Sustainable Development Goal #16 and the OECD Development Assistance Committee’s Fragility Framework. (4) Interagency plans for monitoring and evaluation, adaptive management, and iterative learning that provide for regular and iterative policy and program adaptations based on monitoring and evaluation findings and other evidence generated in each such pilot country and across such pilot countries. (5) Descriptions of the available policy tools to reduce and address the causes of violence, violent conflict, and fragility in each such pilot country. (6) Descriptions of the resources and authorities that would be required for each relevant Federal agency or department to best implement each such pilot country plan, as well as evidence-based iterative updates to such plans. (7) Descriptions of potential areas of improved partnership between the United States Government and international development organizations, relevant international donors, multilateral organizations, and the private sector regarding efforts to reduce and address the causes of violence, violent conflict, and fragility in each such pilot country. (8) Plans for regularly evaluating and updating on an iterative basis the plans described in this subsection. (d) Pilot country designation The Administrator of USAID, in coordination with the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense, shall carry out the following actions: (1) Develop the list of candidate countries under consideration for the initiative required under this section on the basis of the following: (A) Current levels of violence, violent conflict, and fragility, as determined by empirical data, such as the following, to the extent such data are available: (i) Total levels of