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07/09/2011
Army Engineers Build Afghan's Future
The Army is doing much more than defending their outposts in Afghanistan.
A Royal Engineers team is helping local Afghans in Lashkar Gah build a future beyond 2014 by offering advice on a range of projects vital to the security of the area.
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported that they are building a new future for Afghanistan.
Defence Focus magazine reported this week that Royal Engineer Major Mike Eytle and his team, based at Lashkar Gah, work for the Helmand Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) as an engineering design consultancy.
They are giving advice on a range of projects that have been identified as critical to the long-term success of the transition of authority for security in the province to the Afghans: "Our job is to plan and deliver work in accordance with PRT requirements.
"The newly-formed 28 government line ministries are, with our help, beginning to prioritise projects and to start to take on the work that, until now, the PRT has been doing on their behalf," said Major Eytle.
An important part of the team's work is to develop Afghan expertise so that they will be able to plan, build and maintain their own infrastructure in the future.
At the moment, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Department for International Development are the thematic heads for the district planning budget, signing off work in accordance with the programme of work prioritised by Governor Mangal.
"We provide expertise across the whole engineering process, including design and the placing of contracts for packages of work. We know how to tender, project-manage, and go through the acceptance and handover stage of a project," said Major Eytle.
"We also perform the function of clerk of works throughout the build phases. These are skills that the construction industry in the UK take for granted, but here they are new concepts."
And it is these types of skills that the team needs to pass onto Afghans in the line ministries.
So there is a lot for the team to do, from ensuring that local contractors know how to lay concrete properly, to helping the Government decide what matters most to the district.
(BMcC/GK)
A Royal Engineers team is helping local Afghans in Lashkar Gah build a future beyond 2014 by offering advice on a range of projects vital to the security of the area.
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported that they are building a new future for Afghanistan.
Defence Focus magazine reported this week that Royal Engineer Major Mike Eytle and his team, based at Lashkar Gah, work for the Helmand Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) as an engineering design consultancy.
They are giving advice on a range of projects that have been identified as critical to the long-term success of the transition of authority for security in the province to the Afghans: "Our job is to plan and deliver work in accordance with PRT requirements.
"The newly-formed 28 government line ministries are, with our help, beginning to prioritise projects and to start to take on the work that, until now, the PRT has been doing on their behalf," said Major Eytle.
An important part of the team's work is to develop Afghan expertise so that they will be able to plan, build and maintain their own infrastructure in the future.
At the moment, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Department for International Development are the thematic heads for the district planning budget, signing off work in accordance with the programme of work prioritised by Governor Mangal.
"We provide expertise across the whole engineering process, including design and the placing of contracts for packages of work. We know how to tender, project-manage, and go through the acceptance and handover stage of a project," said Major Eytle.
"We also perform the function of clerk of works throughout the build phases. These are skills that the construction industry in the UK take for granted, but here they are new concepts."
And it is these types of skills that the team needs to pass onto Afghans in the line ministries.
So there is a lot for the team to do, from ensuring that local contractors know how to lay concrete properly, to helping the Government decide what matters most to the district.
(BMcC/GK)
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