text: Chapter 7
  progress requires early coordination and constant dialog with other actors; ultimately, this also facilitates a
  successful transition from military-led efforts to civilian organizations or the Host Nation. Essential tasks
  may include—
  • Assess public health hazards within their AO including malnutrition, water sources, and sewer
  and other sanitation services.
  • Assess existing medical infrastructure including preventative and veterinary services, health—
  physical and psychological—care systems, and medical logistics.
  • Evaluate the need for additional medical capabilities.
  • Repair existing civilian clinics and hospitals.
  • Operate or augment the operations of existing civilian medical facilities.
  • Prevent epidemics through immediate vaccinations.
  • Support improvements to local waste and wastewater management capacity.
  • Promote and enhance the HN medical infrastructure.
  Support Education Programs
  7-77. Military activities to support education programs generally focus on repairing or building physical
  infrastructure such as classrooms, schools, or universities. In some cases, trained personnel with
  appropriate civilian backgrounds provide additional services such as administrative or educational
  expertise.
  SUPPORT TO ECONOMIC AND INFRASTRUCTURE
  DEVELOPMENT
  7-78. This helps a Host Nation develop capability and capacity. It includes both short—and long-term
  aspects. The short-term aspect concerns immediate problems, such as large-scale unemployment
  and reestablishing an economy at all levels. The long-term aspect involves stimulating indigenous, robust,
  and broad economic activity. The stability a nation enjoys is often related to its people’s economic situation
  and its adherence to the rule of law. However, a nation’s economic health also depends on its government’s
  ability to continuously secure its population.
  SUBORDINATE TASKS
  7-79. Typical subordinate tasks for support to economic and infrastructure development include—
  • Support economic generation and enterprise creation.
  • Support public sector investment programs.
  • Support private sector development.
  • Protect natural resources and environment.
  • Support agricultural development programs.
  • Restore transportation infrastructure.
  • Restore telecommunications infrastructure.
  • Support general infrastructure reconstruction programs.
  • Use money as a weapon.
  SUPPORT ECONOMIC GENERATION AND ENTERPRISE CREATION
  7-80. Economic recovery begins with an actively engaged labor force. Insurgencies often gain recruits
  by offering the unemployed a wage. When a tactical unit occupies its AO, the demand for local goods,
  services, and labor creates employment opportunities for the local populace. Local projects, such
  as restoring public services, rebuilding schools, or clearing roads, offer additional opportunities for the
  local labor pool. Drawing on local goods, services, and labor presents the force with the first opportunity
  to infuse cash into the local economy, which in turn stimulates market activity. However, this initial
  economic infusion must be translated into consistent capital availability and sustainable jobs programs.
  Thus, short-term actions are taken with an eye towards enabling financial self-reliance and the creation of a
  durable enterprise and job market.