Provincial Reconstruction Team

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The Afghan Governor of the Eastern Region Sayed Fazel Akba and Alan Maskal, US Commander of the PRT in Asadabad Parwan in February 2004

Provincial Reconstruction Teams ( PRTs ) are military units operating in the provinces of Afghanistan and Iraq whose mission is to support and protect the reconstruction of the infrastructure.

PRT in Afghanistan

The Provincial Reconstruction Teams in Afghanistan are either under the command of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) or the Combined Forces Command-Afghanistan (CFC-A). The strength of the teams varies and depends on the local situation.

Order and composition

The PRTs are intended to support the reconstruction of Afghanistan. This includes the implementation of mostly smaller own measures of infrastructural improvement (e.g. drilling wells, delivery of school desks), support in coordination and needs assessment for aid projects in close cooperation with national and international aid organizations, as well as training of the police and authorities.

PRTs also have a military mandate that includes both maintaining a safe environment and intensifying cooperation with Afghan security forces. The individual nations are responsible for regulating how the contract is implemented. PRTs represent one of the main elements of ISAF troops throughout the country. At the moment (January 2008) ISAF operates 26 PRTs.

The PRTs Germany in Kunduz and Faizabad are a military and a civilian leader (from the Foreign Office performed). The composition is multinational . The PRTs are again subdivided into several MOLTs (Mobile Observation and Liaison Team).

PRTs in Afghanistan

In 2008 there were the following PRTs in Afghanistan:

  • under ISAF-Regional Command North:

Faizabad , Kunduz , Mazar-e Sharif , Maimana , Pol-e Chomri

  • under ISAF-Regional Command West:

Qual-e-Naw , Chaghcharan , Herat , Farah

  • under ISAF-Regional Command South:

Kandahar , Laschkar Gah , Tarin-Kowt , Qalat

  • under ISAF-Regional Command East / Combined Joint Task Force 76 (US-led)

Asadabad , Jalalabad , Bamiyan , Gardez , Ghazni , Chowst , Sharana , Wardak , Nuristan , Mehtarlam , Kapisa , Punjjir and Bagram (marked on the map as Parwan, the name of the province)

PRT in Iraq

Based on the experience with the PRTs in Afghanistan, the establishment of these units in Iraq began in 2005. The first PRT was founded on November 11, 2005 in Mosul . Further PRTs, mostly run by the USA, followed in the larger cities of Iraq. There is also a Regional Reconstruction Team (RRT) in Erbil . In Dhi Qar (governorate) a PRT formed by the coalition forces is run by a joint Reconstruction Support Unit (RSU) with personnel from Italy, Romania, the USA and Iraq. By the summer of 2011, 15 functional PRTs are to be in use in Iraq.

The Regional Embassy Office (REO) in Babil , which closed on December 15, 2009 , has been responsible for setting up and supporting the four PRTs in Babil, Najaf , Kerbela and Diwaniyya since 2004 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of March 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive )

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