TOPIC: Area Assessment Checklist.
DISCUSSION: A standardized checklist can enhance the intelligence collection effort and minimize trainup time for S2 sections. The area assessment checklist below was developed by U.S. forces during Operation RESTORE HOPE in Somalia to enhance the intelligence collection effort during OOTW. For additional guidance, see Appendix B, FM 41-10, Civil Affairs Operations.
LESSON(s):
Use
the following checklist as a guide to develop a standardized checklist.
- Where
are the refugees originally from?
- What is the size of the original population?
- What is the size of the area and population that the village services in the
- surrounding countryside?
- What is the size of the refugee population?
- Why did they come here?
- What is the relationship of the village with the surrounding villages?
- Are they related?
- Do they support each other?
- Are they hostile towards each other?
- Is any portion of the village population discriminated against?
- What is the food and water status of the village?
- Where do they get their food?
- What other means of subsistence is available?
- Are the villagers farmers or herders?
- What is the status of their crops/herds?
- What is the quality of the water source?
- What is the medical status of the village?
- What services are available in the village?
- What is the location of the nearest medical facility?
- Is there evidence of illness and/or starvation?
- What portion of the population is affected?
- What is the death rate?
- What diseases are reported in the village?
- What civilian organization exist in the village? Who are their leaders?
- What civil/military organizations exist in the village?
- Who are their leaders?
- What organization/leadership element does the general population seem to
- support or trust the most?
- Which organization seems to have the most control in the village?
- What UN relief agencies operate in the village?
- Who are their representatives?
- What services do they provide?
- What portion of the population do they service?
- Do they have an outreach program for the surrounding countryside?
- What is the security situation in the village?
- What element(s) is the source of the problems?
- What types and quantities of weapons are in the village?
- What are the locations of minefields?
- What commercial or business activities are present in the village? What
- services or products do they produce?
- Determine the groups in the village that are in the most in need.
- What are their numbers?
- Where did they come from?
- How long have they been there?
- What are their specific needs?
- What civic employment projects would the village leaders like to see started?
- Determine the number of families in the village.
- What are their names (family)?
- How many in each family?
- What food items are available in the local market?
- What are the cost of these items?
- Are relief supplies being sold in the market?
- If so, what items, what is their source, and what is the price?
- What skilled labor or services are available in the village (non-HRA)?
- What is the size of any transient population in the village? Where did they come from and how long have they been there?
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