Provincial Reconstruction Team

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

PRT in Afghanistan

The Provincial Reconstruction Teams in Afghanistan are either subject to the International Security Assistance Force command (ISAF ) or the Combined Forces Command - Afghanistan (CFC -A). The personnel strength of the team is different and depends on the situation on the ground.

Mandate and composition

The PRTs are intended to support the reconstruction of Afghanistan. These include the implementation of mostly smaller own measures of infrastructural improvement ( eg drilling wells, supply of school desks ), assisting in the coordination and needs assessment for aid projects in close collaboration with national and international organizations, and training of police and authorities.

PRTs also have a military order, which includes the maintenance of a safe environment, as also drives the intensification of cooperation with Afghan security forces. How the contract is implemented, the individual nations regulate their own responsibility. PRTs are one of the main elements of troops ISAF troops throughout the country dar. Currently (January 2008) are operated by ISAF PRTs 26.

The PRTs in Kunduz and Faizabad Germany are led by a military and a civilian manager ( from the Foreign Office ). The composition is multinational. The PRTs are divided again into several molts (English Mobile Observation and Liaison Team).

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, Lashkar Gah, Tarin Kowt -, Qalat

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

Asadabad, Jalalabad, Bamiyan, Gardez, Ghazni, Khowst, Sharana, Wardak, Nuristan, Mehtarlam, Kapisa, Panjshir and Bagram ( on the map as Parwan, located to the name of province )

PRT in Iraq

Based on the experience with the PRTs in Afghanistan have begun to build these units from 2005 in Iraq. The first PRT was established there on 11 November 2005 in Mosul. There were other mainly US-led PRTs in the major cities of Iraq. In Arbil, there is also a Regional Reconstruction Team (RRT ). In Dhi Qar ( province ) a formed by the coalition forces PRT is led by a common Reconstruction Support Unit (RSU ), with personnel from Italy, Romania, United States and Iraq. Until the summer of 2011 to be in Iraq in use 15 functional PRTs.

The closed on 15 December 2009 Regional Embassy Office (REO ) in Babil was responsible for the development and support of the four PRTs in Babil, Najaf, Karbala and Diwaniyah since 2004.