The Helmand Provincial Reconstruction Team is helping the government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan deliver government and security in the southern province of Helmand.
The Helmand Provincial Reconstruction Team

Provincial reconstruction team

A Provincial Reconstruction Team is a unit introduced by the United States government, consisting of military officers, diplomats, and reconstruction subject matter experts, working to support reconstruction efforts in unstable states. PRTs were first established in Afghanistan in late 2001 or...

 (PRT) was established in September 2004. It was led by the US until 1 May 2006, when this responsibility was handed to the UK. With a core team of over 100 civilian and military staff it is one of the largest PRTs in Afghanistan.
The PRT works to deliver a provincial stabilisation and development plan that has been agreed between the Government of Afghanistan and international partners.

The plan is structured around seven themes:

• Politics and Reconciliation
• Governance
  Governance
  Governance is the act of governing. It relates to decisions that define expectations, grant power, or verify performance. It consists of either a separate process or part of management or leadership processes...
  
  
• Rule of Law
  Rule of law
  The rule of law, sometimes called supremacy of law, is a legal maxim that says that governmental decisions should be made by applying known principles or laws with minimal discretion in their application...
  
   (Justice, Police and Prisons)
• Security
  Security
  Security is the degree of protection against danger, damage, loss, and crime. Security as a form of protection are structures and processes that provide or improve security as a condition. The Institute for Security and Open Methodologies in the OSSTMM 3 defines security as "a form of protection...
  
  
• Economic
  Economic development
  Economic development generally refers to the sustained, concerted actions of policymakers and communities that promote the standard of living and economic health of a specific area...
  
   and Social Development and Reconstruction
• Counter Narcotics
  Counter Narcotics Police of Afghanistan
  The Counter Narcotics Police of Afghanistan is specialist force under the Afghan Ministry of the Interior. The CNPA is the lead agency for counter narcotics investigations in Afghanistan and has an establishment of some 3000 officers...
  
  
• Strategic Communications

The Helmand PRT is part of the International Security Assistance Force

International Security Assistance Force

The International Security Assistance Force is a NATO-led security mission in Afghanistan established by the United Nations Security Council on 20 December 2001 by Resolution 1386 as envisaged by the Bonn Agreement...

 in Afghanistan and is located within Regional Command Southwest

Regional Command Southwest

Regional Command is an international military formation, of roughly division size, which is one of the components of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan. It was formed in July 2010 largely from an area previously in Regional Command South. It is headquartered at Camp...

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Headed by British diplomat Michael O'Neill it has over 100 civilian and military core staff, mainly from the UK, Afghanistan, Denmark, Estonia and the US.