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GAO-09-86R 1 (2008-10-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaankm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I G ., = Accountability * Integrity * Reliability United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 October 1, 2008 Congressional Committees Subject: Provincial Reconstruction Teams in Afghanistan and Iraq U.S.-led Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRT) are designed to help improve stability in Afghanistan and Iraq by increasing the host nation's capacity to govern; enhancing economic viability; and strengthening local governments' ability to deliver public services, such as security and health care. PRTs are a means of coordinating interagency diplomatic, economic, reconstruction, and counterinsurgency efforts among various U.S. agencies in Afghanistan and Iraq. PRTs are intended to be interim structures; after a PRT has achieved its goal of improving stability, it may be dismantled to allow traditional development efforts to occur. In Afghanistan, the first PRTs were created in 2002 with the mission of facilitating security and reconstruction by helping the central government extend its authority to the provinces. Since then, PRTs have expanded their purpose to include strengthening local governance and community development. In Iraq, PRTs were initiated in 2005 with the mission to increase the capacity of provincial and local governments to govern effectively and, for newer embedded PRTs (ePRT), to support moderates and assist in the military's counterinsurgency efforts. To accomplish their missions, PRTs engage in and fund a variety of activities, such as developing the capacity of local governments through engagement with local stakeholders; promoting budget execution, business development, agriculture, public health initiatives, and governance; and supporting the delivery of basic social services. This report describes (1) the organization, staffing, and funding for PRTs in Afghanistan and (2) the organization, staffing, and funding for PRTs in Iraq. It excludes information marked Sensitive but Unclassified in our September 26, 2008, report on PRTs.' Due to broad congressional interest in issues related to Iraq and Afghanistan, we completed this report under the Comptroller General's authority to conduct evaluations on his own initiative. To address these topics, we analyzed reports and other documentation and interviewed officials from the Departments of State (State), Defense (DOD), and Agriculture (USDA); the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID); the U.S. Central Command, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan; and the Multi-National Force-Iraq (MNF-I). We received technical comments from DOD, State, and USAID and incorporated them where appropriate. (See enc. I for a more complete description of our scope and methodology.) Summary In Afghanistan, as of May 2008, the United States was leading 12 of 26 PRTs and 13 other coalition countries were leading the remaining 14 PRTs. All PRTs in Afghanistan are under 'GAO, Provincial Reconstruction Teams in Afghanistan and Iraq, GAO-08-905RSU (Washington, D.C.: Sept. 26, 2008). GAO-09-86R PROVINCIAL RECONSTRUCTION TEAMS

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