Question

how can cooperation can be establish to the national security?

Answer 1

This document builds upon the 2008 policy and incorporates what USAID has learned from working with DoD into updated and expanded guidance for all USAID personnel. Increasingly,USAID and DoD share the same operating space. In order to cooperate effectively in the diverse places where USAID and DoD personnel find each other, it is important to draw upon lessons from experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan and from cooperation in other countries and regions where we have worked together, including Colombia, the Philippines, the Balkans, and the Sahel.

This policy document articulates a set of guiding principles to establish parameters for USAID cooperation with DoD and clarifies the context for that cooperation. These are followed by a set of operating principles,which articulate how that cooperation takes place in the form of cooperative structures and personnel exchanges and across USAID’s Program Cycle, which includes policy and strategy development, planning, project design and implementation, evaluation and monitoring, and learning and adapting.2

Implementation Guidance will be issued in stages following publication of this policy to provide practical guidance for USAID personnel to apply the policy where USAID and DoD have linkages in various sectors and issue areas. This new guidance will replace the Civilian-Military Implementation Guidelines issued with the 2008 policy.