Comprehensive Approach to Building Partnerships

for Steady-State Assessment and Planning

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As of 14 March 2011

Steady-State Activities

• Refers to cumulative day-to-day activities outside of major surge operations

• Encompass shaping activities (including Phase 0 elements of contingency plans)

• Designed to- Build effective, legitimate, interoperable, and self-sustaining partners

consistent with US foreign policy objectives- Promote acceptable international behavior by potential adversaries- Sustain peace & security under conditions that promote US interests- Set conditions for military success if a contingency cannot be

prevented- Leverage capabilities of partners to help achieve end states- Strengthen alliances and partnerships “Steady-state operations are oriented toward conducting normal foreign relations activities not currently affected by crisis or serious conflict.”

-- Ambassador (ret.) Edward Marks

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Comprehensive Approach

• An approach that integrates the cooperative efforts of the departments and agencies of the US Government, intergovernmental & nongovernmental organizations, multinational partners, and private sector entities to achieve unity of effort toward a shared goal

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“Development contributes to stability. It contributes to better governance. And if you are able to do those things and you’re able to do them in a focused and sustainable way, then it may be unnecessary for us to send soldiers…. But development and security are inextricably linked. You can’t have development without security, and you can’t have security without development.”

-- Robert M. GatesSecretary of Defense

Challenge – Focus on Host Country

• The primary responsibility for establishing and maintaining stability in any country remains with the host country government, its civil society, and its population -- they own the problem

• Successful steady-state programs require host country buy-in with the goal being a self-sustaining host country security system responsive to its people

Post Intervention(Phase VI)

The Comprehensive Approach, and by extension the assessment and planning processes of DOD and its partners, must focus on

the host country within the context of USG interests

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NSCIPCsOMB

DOJDHS

DOTDOCCIA

Congress Liaison

UN World Bank

IOs

NGOs

RegionalOrgs

NeighborStates

Coalition Partners

Solution – Move Toward Greater Integration

• Develop & offer tools that provide consistent, repeatable procedures so that DOD planners can effectively plan and collaborate in a comprehensive manner with non-DOD counterparts. Consider:

- National Security Strategy:

Integrate Defense, Diplomacy, & Development (3D) components

- DOS is USG lead for foreign policy & diplomacy

- USAID focuses on country-level development

- DOD focuses on defense sector

National Security Strategy

Theater(Region)

Country

DOD

DOS&

USAID

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Solution – Focus on Country-Level Planning

• Security Cooperation programs provide the capacity and capability building activities that link DOD and non-DOD planners

 - USG national security goal is to develop host country institutions- Planning timeline extends beyond life of resourced activities - Qualitative & quantitative metrics to assess foreign assistance- Synchronize military objectives with other organizations- Recognize, understand non-DOD partners goals & objectives- Support shared goals, common outcomes, & obligations

Most importantly, focus on the host country’s goals and objectives that align with US interests

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Challenge –Getting to Integration

Competition

Coordination

Cooperation

Collaboration

Integration

“I’ll do it my way”

“We know what each other is doing”

“We help each otherdo our respective tasks”

“We work togetheron our respective tasks”

“We do tasks together”

NSS Goal

•Concept for this slide from presentation by Dr Cathy Downes, NDU, National Security Professionals Symposium, August 4-5, 2010

No integrated peacetime country planning process exists

Where w

e are

JFC Challenge

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Solution – Focus on Steady-State Plans

“Helping other countries better provide for their own security will be a key and enduring test of US global leadership and a critical part of protecting US security, as well. Improving the way the US government executes this vital mission must be an important national priority.”

-- Secretary Robert M. Gates,

Foreign Affairs, May/June 2010

CABP solution is “Focus on Country Cooperation Plan synchronization with the Mission Strategic & Resource Plan”

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DOD

USAID

Host Country

Bureau Strategic Resource Plan

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Country Cooperation

Plan

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CCP Development Handbook

• Written for the CCP planner• Provides a common process to develop CCPs in coordination with

USG interagency counterparts and other key actors with programs in, or that affect, the host country

• Supplements existing doctrine for planning and coordination with non-DOD organizations

• Provides fundamental concepts and planning guidance for the development of CCPs that provide operational guidance to the CCMD implementing components

• Designed to be used in conjunction with CSSAP Reference Guide

Assists the planner to produce a country-focused steady-state plan in a consistent, repeatable process according to policy &

guidance

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Using the CCP Development Handbook

• Theater (CCMDs)- Identifies fundamental guidance, planning considerations,

techniques & procedures for country planning of steady-state programs and activities in a comprehensive approach

- Reinforces CCMD joint planning & coordination with non-DOD organizations used for contingencies, reconstruction and stability

• Country (Country Team)- Provides CCMD planning, assessment, and coordination policies,

lexicon, processes & perspectives regarding country planning in a comprehensive approach

- Identifies the SCO as the focal point for CCMD coordination within the Country Team

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CSSAP Reference Guide

Consistent with current DOD policy and joint doctrine …

• Describes key actors and processes at the national, regional, and country level for planning and implementing foreign assistance

• Identifies sources for more in-depth understanding• Offers a process for planning steady-state activities in

a comprehensive approach• Assists the planner in determining the most effective

ways to engage

Reference Guide is designed to introduce, educate, & train steady-state coordination/cooperation perspectives

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Using the CSSAP Reference Guide

• National level (OSD, DOS, USAID)- Establishes a baseline as departments & agencies develop new integrated

approach to processes & policies- Provides OSD/JS with CCMD & country team perspectives on cooperation and

coordination; enables improved DC-level guidance- Provides education and training on steady-state and comprehensive approach

concepts• Theater level (CCMDs)

- Provides CCMD Planners with the current, standardized national level guidance & policy development process

- Describes repeatable country-focused planning processes / template• Country level (Country Team)

- Highlights the SCO as the key participant in steady-state coordination, cooperation, collaboration & integration

- Provides insight for the remainder of Country Team into current DOD planning, assessment, and coordination policies, processes & perspectives

Reference Guide introduces, educates & trains standard, repeatable DOD coordination & cooperation perspectives

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