A YEAR OF FIRSTS
- What requirements would be above the cut line, i.e., priori- tized for funding?
- What requirements would be below the cut line and not be funded?
º Decide if a full requirement would be funded, or if reduced funding was possible for certain require- ments (acceptable risk).
• Being prepared to defend, justify and prioritize their requirements from 1-N:
ºWhat would be the impact on the mission if a requirement weren’t funded?
• Ensuring that requirements were
linked to one of the four MOI pro- grams, subprograms and activities.
Tese PWGs effectively prepared the MOI for the Budget Circular 2 submission,
and greatly helped representatives from budgetary units to prepare for two MOI iJCCs and the final iGOSC.
For the MOI, the iJCCs were also a historic first. As with the MOD, the pur- pose of these meetings was to shape the ANDSF Budget Circular 2 submission before approval from the MOI and the commander of Resolute Support. Bud- get activity leads had the opportunity to share requirements with the international community. Participation was at the O-6 level or civilian equivalent.
As with the MOD, PandA exposed the MOI to the off-budget portion of requirements, another significant first and an enlightening experience for the Afghans. Representatives from the Cana- dian, Korean and Italian embassies also participated, which was yet another first, particularly as CSTC-A wanted to strengthen donor confidence in advance of the Warsaw Summit. Afghan partici- pation included the budgetary units of the fire, prisons, gender, Afghan local police, education and training, facilities, finance, information, communications and technology, logistics, medical, public affairs and traffic departments.
Te ministry’s iGOSC was also a historic first, designed to review work recently accomplished during the iJCCs and to help shape the ANDSF Budget Circular 2 submission before MOI approval.
AFTER-ACTION REVIEW LTC Brittian A. Walker, chief of the Program and Analysis Division in the CSTC-A CJ-8, conducts an after-action review with MOI staff in September 2015 at the Resolute Support headquarters. Newly developed program and budget development efforts have provided Af- ghan leadership with experience, background and tools that they can use for the program build for SY 1396. (Photo by Michael Anthony)
Te CSTC-A commanding general co- chaired the meeting with the MOI deputy minister for security. Participation was at the O-8, major general level or civilian equivalent. Te MOI program linked operational capability
requirements
and strategic planning guidance with resource requirements. Other attendees included the CSTC-A deputy command- ing general and command sergeant major;
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the Afghan deputy ministers for strategy and policy, counternarcotics, support and administration; and the Essential Function 1 director for resource man- agement. Te event was a resounding success, providing our Afghan partners with
invaluable insight and allowing
them to ask questions and challenge one another’s submissions to help shape their prioritized and constrained program into the final Budget Circular 2 submission.
Lastly, PandA invited our Afghan part- ners to attend and observe CSTC-A’s FY17-21 POM council-of-colonels ses- sions and GOSCs, other milestones in the spirit of integration and transparency. Tese events provided an opportunity for the Afghans to be a part of a mean- ingful process and allowed them to observe how the coalition builds its program by identifying efficiencies and constrains requirements to a fiscal real- ity. Te Afghans were very appreciative, and stated they had gained many use- ful tools that they could use when they begin their next program build for SY 1396 in the spring. A year of many firsts has significantly increased the capacity of the Program and Analysis Department at the MOI.
CONCLUSION Te successes achieved
during sum-
mer and fall 2015 will ensure that the legacy of the Resolute Support Mission is secure. Te financial processes that were developed and the training our Afghan counterparts received on these processes will secure a successful future for the ANDSF and have already built donor confidence in the international community. With continued work, we will ensure that the ANDSF will further develop into institutions that employ sound financial processes and serve as standard-bearers for the entire Afghan government.
Army AL&T Magazine April-June 2016
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