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  is the principal agency for U.S. bilateral development and humanitarian assistance to foreign countries.
  The USAID will normally serve as the lead federal agent for the U.S.
  5-60. FHA missions conducted by U.S. military forces span the full competition continuum. This could be
  from crisis response and limited contingency operations to activities in various steady-state programs as part
  of the security cooperation program of the geographic CCDR, or to achieve specific theater campaign plan
  objectives.
  5-61. DODD 5105.65 assigns the Defense Security Cooperation Agency the responsibility to direct,
  administer, and provide DOD-wide guidance for the execution of DOD SA and security cooperation. It
  further directs the Defense Security Cooperation Agency to provide oversight and exercise overall program
  management responsibility for DOD humanitarian assistance and demining activities funded by the Overseas
  Humanitarian Disaster and Civic Aid appropriation, in coordination with the Assistant Secretary of Defense
  for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict. The directive directs the Defense Security Cooperation
  Agency to produce Defense Security Cooperation Agency manual 5105.38-M. This manual provides policy
  and direction for humanitarian assistance.
  5-62. The CA role in FHA is to assist the commander in planning; advising on the activities; and coordinating
  with unified action partners, IPI, and interagency to synchronize efforts. CA forces also play a key role in
  conducting assessments. FHA operations are inherently complex and require a significant amount of
  interagency coordination. FHA is normally directed from the strategic level, planned and managed at the
  operational level, and conducted at the tactical level. On all levels, in support of FHA activities, CA forces—
  * Participate in interagency assessment, planning and synchronization of FHA activities.
  * Identify, validate, or evaluate host-nation and international resources available for FHA activities.
  * Mobilize vetted and developed civil networks to aid in FHA activities.
  * Advise, assist, and plan displaced civilian movement and control.
  * Participate in the execution of selected FHA activities as directed.
  * Provide liaison with IPI.
  * Assist in the coordination of local labor.
  * Coordinate with judge advocates to assist the commander to meet legal and moral obligations.
  * Monitor and evaluate FHA.
  * Assess requirements and support for the operation of a CMOC.
  * Conduct and maintain an assessment of humanitarian issues in designated nations or regions.
  * Identify shortfalls in host-nation humanitarian assistance programs and resources.
  5-63. Although FHA operations may be executed simultaneously with other types of operations, each type
  has unique characteristics. For example, FHA operations may be simultaneously conducted with peace
  operations, but each has its own strategic end state. Military commanders must be cautious not to commit
  their forces to projects and tasks that go beyond the FHA mission. Military commanders conducting FHA
  simultaneously with other operations must develop end state, transition, and termination objectives, as well
  as measures of effectiveness and measures of performance complementary to simultaneous military
  operations. Civil networks developed and integrated into operations through the CNDE process aid in
  execution of FHA tasks, thereby relieving commands of resource demands that might take away from
  completion of other operations.
  5-64. One example of FHA is humanitarian mine action, which includes activities related to the furnishing
  of education, training, and technical assistance with respect to detection, clearance, physical security, and
  stockpile management of land mines and other explosive remnants of war. Explosive remnants of war include
  landmines, unexploded ordnance (mortar rounds, artillery shells, bomblets, rockets, sub-munitions, rocket
  motors and fuel, grenades, small arms ammunition, and so on), and abandoned ammunition storage and cache
  sites. The CA role in humanitarian mine action is normally to assist with the request and approval process
  and to assist the HN in establishing a national demining office.