Afghan National Security Forces: Despite Reported Successes, Concerns Remain about Literacy Program Results, Contract Oversight, Transition, and Sustainment.

摘要

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization Training Mission- Afghanistan/Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan (NTMA/ CSTC-A), under the command of the International Security Assistance Force, reported that its literacy training program has been generally successful in providing basic, functional literacy to Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) personnel. As of October 2013, the command reported that 224,826 ANSF personnel had passed basic Level 1, with 73,700 passing Level 3 since the program s inception in November 2009. The command said that the literacy program will meet its goal of 100 percent of ANSF personnel proficient at Level 1 and 50 percent proficient at Level 3 by the end of 2014. However, these goals were based on the ANSF s authorized end strength of 148,000 personnel that was established in 2009, rather than the current authorized end strength of 352,000. Several NTM-A/CSTC- A officials told us they do not know how the goal for the literacy program was developed, but that attaining it based on the current authorized ANSF end strength may be unrealistic and unattainable.