; (B) places specific emphasis on use of the funds for— (i) acquisition of technical assistance for the development and implementation of national action plans for health security that seek to achieve specific, measurable targets, including targets identified through Joint External Evaluations carried out in keeping with the International Health Regulations (2005); (ii) financing for the implementation of actions and activities meant to fill gaps identified through rigorously developed and evaluated national action plans for health security that identify measurable steps to build and sustain capacity to prevent, detect, and respond to epidemic threats, including those that have undergone Joint External Evaluations and in keeping with the targets of the Global Health Security Agenda; (iii) financing through mechanisms aimed at creating incentives for countries to devote an increasing share of their own resources to core preparedness functions and to make measurable, independently verified progress against preparedness outcomes such as national action plan benchmarks, Joint External Evaluation and Global Health Security Index scores, or other credible, rigorously developed, measurable plans; (iv) leverage over public and private sector funding, including country resources and resources from government donors, development banks, private sector entities, philanthropies, and other non-governmental entities, to incentivize countries to prioritize health security; (v) resources for the purposes of measuring progress made towards achieving benchmarks and milestones in closing gaps, and for evaluations; (vi) activities to conduct regular exercises of health security capacities and for publishing and disseminating annual after-action reviews based on simulation exercises; and (vii) activities necessary to constructively participate in an international biosurveillance architecture aimed at rapidly detecting emerging pandemic threats