; program design and implementation; monitoring, learning, and evaluation); (2) prioritize funding programs that build the assets, agency, and capacity of youth engaged in peacebuilding, violence prevention, mediation, negotiation, and peacekeeping, at the community level and through meaningful youth participation in decision making and in formal spaces and institutions; (3) ensure that capacity-building and youth engagement programs take a systems-based and intergenerational approach by engaging key institutions and stakeholders. such as peers and peer mentors, family and community members, educators, religious leaders, and policy leaders; (4) encourage the development of youth-inclusive reconciliation, disengagement, and reintegration programs; (5) support inclusive education with a focus on mother-language and cultural pride, and context-specific critical thinking skills, relationship-based and skill-building learning, and conflict resolution; (6) through the USG’s geographical reach, experience working with vulnerable children and youth on the ground, existing partnerships and thematically linked programs, and USAID’s Digital Strategy as a vehicle, address diverse forms of digital harm to children and youth, learn from these experiences and continue to strengthen interventions; (7) utilize and promote safe and accessible digital platforms and networks to strengthen and promote youth dialogue and participation in peacebuilding efforts; (8) specifically address the impact that the growing digital ecosystem play in— (A) achieving or impeding the inclusive and meaningful participation of youth in peacebuilding efforts and political processes; and (B) radicalization and recruitment; (9) include youth in assessments of United States peace and security initiatives; (10) encourage government partners to ensure inclusive participation of youth in formal peace and political transition processes, including in national dialogues; civic engagement and political participation; reconciliation