IRD leadership participated in the annual IPOA conference for the stability operations industry. This presentation was part of a panel discussion on stabilization and development in conflict, post-conflict, and post-disaster environments. IRD's Chief of Communications, Jeff Grieco, presents his Top Ten Attributes of Effective Stabilization and Development Programs in Complex Operations.

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Civilian-led Stabilization and
Development in Complex
Operations
Jeffrey Grieco
International Relief and Development (IRD)
October 18, 2010

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A Civil Stabilization & Development Model
• Supports U.S. national interests:
– by reinforcing the stabilization and development program
objectives and performance indicators as defined by the donor
and implementer.
• Brings mission critical capacity building support to key
host government authorities:
– involved in agriculture, energy, roads, local governance, water,
health and other critical sectors.
• Development programs must be differentiated from
stabilization programs (they are linked but not the same).

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Top Ten Attributes of
Effective Stabilization and
Development Programs
in Complex Operations

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Attribute #1: Fast and Effective
• Model must provide effective,
rapid, quality assured result.
• 1st
for host country partners
and 2nd
for donors, Congress,
auditors, dipl. & mil. partners.
• Accountability systems must
be monitored and evaluated
on site, within a region or
country, or anywhere
remotely so adjustments can
be made quickly and
effectively.

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Attribute #2: Improved Gov. Capacity Building
• Allows timely capacity
building for the most
critical ministries.
• Advisors are experienced,
trained, and field-tested
experts in stabilization and
conflict-threat reduction.
• Advisors are invited to
embed within host
government authorities to
promote and facilitate
rapid capacity building.

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Attribute #3: Scalability/National Application
• Eminently “scalable” within
an unstable, fast changing
political, economic, and
military environment.
• Allows a national application
or coverage to support
projects in any targeted
province, region, or locality.
• Utilizes locally educated and
trained staff to help design,
administer and manage
programming.

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Attribute #4: Improved Disaster Preparedness
• Provides a structured approach to
stabilization that yields greater
safety and security for host-
country populations.
– Example: IRD utilizes a “Building
Forensics Task Force,”
• helps local implementers to design,
build, and maintain infrastructure to
accepted global safety standards.

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Attribute #5:
Embed Commun. & Info Systems
• Need to communicate &
inform host communities of
program objectives + scope.
– Ex. utilize a simple GIS
database to link civilian
programs and measure
performance over time.
• Results in more accurate and
accountable programming in
more remote regions.
• Builds greater local
community buy-in and donor
institutional support.

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Attribute #6: Field-Tested Capacity-Building Advisors
• The greatest asset in stability
operations is people.
• Capacity-building requires
individuals with a unique skill set
including among others:
– engineering field experience
– political and cultural sensitivity
– language skills
– security-savvy and
– ability to train future managers
in standards of accountability
including M&E.

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Attribute #7: Adaptability to Donor/USG
Evolving Requirements
• Political, social, economic, or
program requirements may
evolve quickly to preserve
operational success.
• Ability to lead programming
when donor’s institutional
support systems have not
caught up to changed
requirements
• Built-in support modules will
allow donors/USG to quickly
adapt to operational priorities on
the ground.
– Ex.: specialty engineering, seismic
engineering; insect specialists

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Attribute #8: Community-Based, Local
Ownership Focused
• Development during stability
operations requires an
institutional approach, designed
around one objective: building
community trust and local
ownership.
– Ex.: Afghan Shura Councils
• NGOs and contractors have
been doing community-based
development for decades.
• However, the key is being able
to do it during war, conflict, and
instability with a distinct
measure of success.

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Attribute #9: Tenured & Stable Leadership
• Stability operations require two key
human resource dynamics to
succeed:
– Program Stability/Tenure:
• through recruitment, training and
support of Technical Advisors who
complete Mission objectives; and
– Program Leadership:
• by selecting only those advisors
who offer the best fit for that
particular program, region and/or
nation.

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Attribute #10: “Indigenizing” Program Ownership
• Indigenized, community-based
approaches to counterinsurgency
and stability operations meet
greater program acceptance,
support, and ultimately success.
• “Pakistanization” or “Afghanization”
of program activities helps
guarantee national and community
leadership networks involvement in
and commitment to program
success.
• Indigenizing programs improves the
speed or quickness with which local
ownership takes root
– so that real capacity building can
take place and in a more
sustainable fashion.

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Working Model for Stability and Development
Operations in Complex Environments
• Fast and effective
• Improves capacity
building
• Scalability/national
application
• Improves disaster
preparedness
• Embeds Communications
& Information Systems
• Employs field-tested
capacity-building advisors
• Adaptability to
donor/USG evolving
requirements
• Community-based, local
ownership focused
• Tenured and stable field
leadership
• Centered around
“indigenizing” program
ownership

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U.S. National Security & Stability Operations
“The integration of civilian and military effort has greatly
improved over the last year, a process that will deepen as
additional troops arrive and our civilian effort expands…Our
increased civilian presence has enabled us to more
effectively and more rapidly invest our assistance in the
areas of agriculture, job creation, education, health care,
and infrastructure projects.”
Ambassador Karl Eikenberry, 9 December
2009

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“For truly sustainable progress, our troop increase must be
matched by a stronger civilian effort and additional foreign
assistance…Our civilian effort will continue long after our
combat forces have begun to draw down, as a key part of
our enduring commitment to Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the
region.”
Former Deputy Secretary of State Jacob J. Lew, 9 December 2009
U.S. National Security & Stability Operations

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IRD’s Stability Operations in Iraq
• 51,772 Iraqis placed in
long-term jobs.
• 1,588 community
infrastructure projects
implemented.
• $76.8 million in small-
business grants awarded
to 10,194 Iraqis.
• 41,443 Iraqis graduated
from CSP-sponsored
vocational training
courses.
• 331,300 Iraqi youth
participated in 615
activities aimed at
mitigating conflict.
CSPs Performance
through June 2009:
Ninewa
Dahuk
Erbil
Tameem
Diyala
Salah al-Din
Anbar
Missan
Thi-Qar
Muthanna
Babylon
Baghdad
Al Qaim
Haditha
Hit
Ramadi Habbaniyah
Babil
Kirkuk
Basrah
Baghdad
Baquba
Samarra
Sulaymaniyah
KUWA
IT
Najaf
Wassit
Basrah
Qadissiya
Mosul/Tal Afar
Tikrit
Beiji
Kerbala
Fallujah

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Stability Operations in Afghanistan 2008-10
• AVIPA—wheat seed and
fertilizer vouchers distributed
to 647,000 farmers in 18
provinces between September
2008 and August 2010. 28,300
tons of improved wheat seed
and 88,000 tons of fertilizer
also distributed.
• SPR—78 KM of roads
completed, hundreds of KM of
roads in process, 67 new small
businesses created, 6,929
FTE jobs created, 5,670
trained in agriculture, 125,364
Afghan families directly
benefiting.

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Thank You
• Jeff Grieco,
– IRD, Chief, Global Communications & Government
Affairs
• Phone: 703-248-0161
• Email: jgrieco@ird-dc.org
• Website: www.ird.org/stabilization