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“The State Department should use American Spaces to staff and operate a Western Balkans public engagement and leadership center that promotes civic engagement and regional cooperation and works against disinformation and malign influence.”
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“For five years, the State Department should publish yearly reports on YALI progress, how many people benefited, effects on U.S.-Africa relations, and recommended changes.”
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“The United States should expand exchange programs and maintain or grow security help for Georgia after the President tells Congress that Georgia has made lasting democratic progress, held mostly free and fair elections, had a fair pre-election environment, and moved toward Europe and NATO.”
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“The United States should expand exchanges and defense cooperation with Georgia if Georgia makes strong, lasting progress on democracy and its path toward Europe and NATO.”
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“Federal aid accounts and U.S.-backed institutions should lose unused money for long-term development projects overseas and smaller development or peacebuilding work.”
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“The Senate should say that USAID helps protect the United States by reducing threats overseas, supporting more stable countries, and addressing conditions that can drive migration or help extremist groups recruit.”
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“The State Department should make public who can apply for the Mandela Washington Fellowship and how eligible applicants are selected.”
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“YALI should support the Mandela Washington Fellowship by bringing selected African fellows ages 25 to 35 to the United States for a six-week leadership institute, a yearly summit with U.S. leaders, and approved exchanges or joint projects with U.S. citizens.”
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“The Young African Leaders Initiative should become an official State Department-led U.S. program, and that legal authority should end after five years unless Congress renews it.”
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“The United States should fund economic and security programs tied to national security, reserve at least 15 percent of that money for Africa, and support democratic governance, civil society, elections, and related institutions overseas.”
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“The United States should support democracy in Georgia and back Georgia's path toward the European Union and NATO.”
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“The United States should help Western Balkans countries fight corruption, improve courts and public services, and protect independent media.”
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“The United States should build closer ties with young people, students, teachers, and universities in the Western Balkans.”
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“The United States should encourage Western Balkans roads, bridges, rail lines, energy connections, trusted telecommunications networks, energy sharing, and environmental cooperation, while DFC and USAID study whether loan guarantees, insurance, or a regional DFC office could help infrastructure and energy projects.”
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“U.S. policy in the Western Balkans should cover Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia; build closer economic and security ties; prioritize democracy and rule of law; support EU-led Kosovo-Serbia talks; and reject land swaps, partition, or ethnic border changes to settle disputes.”
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“U.S. agencies should be able to coordinate a Western Balkans regional trade program with nearby European Union countries, focusing on smaller businesses, startups, women and young entrepreneurs, diaspora ties, transparent investment, screening risky investments, and alignment with European Union accession standards.”
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“The United States should support trade, business growth, infrastructure, and energy projects in the Western Balkans while coordinating with European partners.”
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“YALI regional centers should offer year-round online and in-person training for young African leaders in business, entrepreneurship, civic leadership, public management, peacebuilding, conflict resolution, budgeting, oversight, anti-corruption, and related skills.”
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“YALI regional centers should serve people ages 18 to 35 who have shown leadership, peacebuilding, and community impact, and the State Department should explain how YALI will include people from poor, conflict-affected, and marginalized communities.”
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