Extensive Training Activities for Civilian Response Corps CRC

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Extensive Training Activities for Civilian
Response Corps (CRC) Interagency Collaboration
to Participate in Whole of Government
Reconstruction Stabilization Initiative

• Diana S. Hadzibegovic M.D., M.P.H.
• Civilian Response Coordinator

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Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction
Stabilization (S/CRS)

• August 5, 2004, Secretary Powell announced
  creation of S/CRS to enhance nation's
  institutional capacity to respond to crises
  involving failing, failed, post-conflict states
  complex emergencies. Currently, Ambassador John
  Herbst is Coordinator.
• Failing post-conflict states pose one of
  greatest national international security
  challenges of our day, threatening vulnerable
  populations, their neighbors, our allies,
  ourselves.
• Core Mission is to
• Lead, coordinate institutionalize U.S.
  Government civilian capacity to prevent or
  prepare for post-conflict situations
• Stabilize reconstruct societies in transition
  from conflict or civil strife, to reach
  sustainable path toward peace, democracy market
  economy

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National Security Presidential Directive 44
(NSPD 44)

• Signed by President December 7, 2005
• Purpose to improve coordination, planning,
  implementation for reconstruction stabilization
  assistance for foreign states regions at risk
  of, in, or in transition from conflict or civil
  strife.
• The Secretary of State shall coordinate lead
  integrated U.S. efforts, involving all U.S.
  Departments with relevant capabilities
• Secretary of State responsible to coordinate
  whole-of-government civilian response to RS
  operations

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How Does NSPD 44 Impact HHS?

• NSPD 44 formalizes coordinated whole-of-government
  interagency response
• HHS other executive agencies participating in
  creation of 3 reserve corps, 2 of which are
  comprised of permanent employees skilled in
  crisis response, from which skilled personnel
  can be mobilized rapidly in response to crises

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Triggers to Implement RS Operations

• Importance Impact on U.S. national security
  foreign policy objectives
• Magnitude Regional impact potential scale of
  humanitarian needs
• Potential for significant U.S. military
  involvement As indicated in DoDs Contingency
  Planning Guidance
• Likelihood Probability of crisis occurring, as
  indicated by information risk assessments
• Capacity Ability of impacted country
  neighbors to respond effectively to crisis

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Essential Tasks of S/CRS

• Security
• Governance Participation
• Humanitarian Assistance Social Well Being
• Economic Stabilization Infrastructure
• Justice Reconciliation

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Humanitarian Assistance Social Well-Being

• Refugees Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)
• Trafficking in Persons
• Food Security
• Shelter Non-Food Relief
• Humanitarian Demining
• Public Health
• Health Education
• Social Protection
• Assessment, Analysis Reporting
• Public Information Communication

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Legislation

• TITLE XVI--RECONSTRUCTION AND STABILIZATION
  CIVILIAN MANAGEMENT ACT P.L. 110-447 National
  Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009
  (As Enacted on 14 October 2008)
• March 2009 - Congress passed OMNIBUS (75 mil
  going to base funding for S/CRS)
• HHS's cooperation participation is critical to
  success of this effort
• Tremendous congressional pressure to demonstrate
  civilian response concept to ensure continued
  funding 

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IMS-Interagency Management System

• When significant crisis occurs or begins to
  emerge,
• Secretary of State may decide to establish
  Interagency
• RS Management System (tool) based on decision by
  Principals
• or Deputies Committees implemented at
  direction of
• NSC.
• The IMS consist of the following
• CRSG (Country Reconstruction and Stabilization
  Group) Washington based decision making body
• IPC (Integration Planning Cell) A civilian cell
  integrated with military (GCC)
• ACT (Advance Civilian Team) One or more
  interagency field management and coordination
  teams to support COM in the field
• This tool is intended to support
• IPC (Integrated planning process),
• Joint interagency field deployments and
• Joint civilian operation capabilities

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Three Reserve Corps

• Civilian Response Corps - Active Component
  (CRC-A)
• 250 new government hires in FY09 State Department
  budget (100 for FY09)
• First responders for RS operations
• HHS allocated 5 FTEs (2 for 2009). Salaries
  benefits to be reimbursed by State Department
• Civilian Response Corps - Standby Component
  (CRC-S)
• 2000 existing government employees across USG
  (1000 for FY09)
• Members remain in their regular positions until
  called for deployment or training
• HHS committed to 40 reservists. (10 for FY09).
  Cost of training deployment to be reimbursed by
  State Department (contingent upon State
  appropriation)

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Three Reserve Corps

• Civilian Response Corps - Reserve Component (CRC)
• Force of 4000 private sector volunteers by 2010
• 4 year commitment of service from individuals
  from private sector state local governments
• HHS in charge of public health infrastructure
  experts in cooperation with USAID. State will
  fund all CRC costs.

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RS Interagency Annual Training Strategy

• Overall scope of training described training
  needs anticipated over next 5 years, as U.S.
  Government (USG) develops broad capacity to
  respond to countries at risk of, in, or emerging
  from crisis.
• Training intended for Civilian Response Corps
  (CRC) personnel as well as other relevant USG
  civilian military personnel involved in
  planning implementing USG RS operations,
  including but not limited to when Interagency
  Management System (IMS) for RS has been
  activated.

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Training Strategy

• Training strategy identified 5 types of training
• Orientation
• Annual
• Pre-deployment
• In-theater Continuity
• Reintegration
• Active members of CRC required to take minimum of
  8 weeks of training to include mixture of online,
  classroom field activities
• Standby members required to take 2 weeks of
  annual training. Additional components of annual
  training may be mandatory for specific positions
  (e.g., Police Advisors, Lead Interagency
  Planners, etc.) prior to consideration for
  deployment

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Criteria for Establishing Training Priorities

• Minimum training requirements (beyond orientation
  training) to prepare maximum number of CRC for
  rapid deployment
• Upgraded safety, security, health training for
  CRC-A members, soon after orientation training
  annually, as needed, to keep skills current
• Core training programs addressing key functional
  skill areas in leading RS work
• Interagency RS planning
• Conflict assessment/analysis
• Continuing deficiencies in critical tasks
  support of ongoing RS operations
• Cross-cultural working with host nation
  international colleagues talking with media
• Working with host nationals serving as mentor,
  advisor negotiating
• Communicating reporting within team up/down
  chain of command
• Equipment software

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Learning Objectives

• Participants will be able to perform the
  following within RS environment
• Communication
• Planning
• Geneva Convention Guidelines
• Work with Variety of Personalities
• Effective Problem Solving Decision Making
• Demonstrate Innovation, Creativity
• Build Coalition
• Provide clarity on mission goals related to US
  national interests
• Effective Public Diplomacy

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Whole of Government R and S Initiative

• This is a work in progress and we need to create
  new mechanisms, capacities, capabilities, and
  support structures for reconstruction and
  stabilization operations because existing
  mechanisms, capacities, capabilities, and support
  structures were not sufficient for the task.
• Traditional military, State Department, and USAID
  structures to respond to failed and failing
  states should be enhanced and supplemented by new
  whole-of-government structures for RS missions.
• In order to succeed we need to have well taught
  concept in place, well planned activities,
  equipped and well trained professionals coming
  from different USG-domestic agency power in
  place.