The Foreign Service Journal, May 2010

M A Y 2 0 1 0 / F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L 43 agencies. The team also supports interagency bodies established under National Security Presi- dential Directive 44, sharing in- formation, developing objectives and coordinating the participation of members of the civilian intera- gency community with respect to civilian-military exercises and other partnership activities re- lated to reconstruction and stabi- lization. FSJ: How does your office see its role in failed and failing states such as Yemen and Somalia? JH: We are involved in ongoing conversations, both in Washington and in the field, relating to those chal- lenges. We are still developing a capacity for such situa- tions, but in any case, the decisions will be made at senior levels within State as to where and how to use that capacity. FSJ: Let me just end with a few nuts-and-bolts questions. Do you compile a database of indi- viduals within the Foreign Serv- ice and other government agencies with the skills you’re looking for? JH: Yes, State and USAID and the other participating agencies feed us the names of the people they hire. FSJ: And who pays? JH: At present, both USAID and State are receiving appropriations for the Civilian Response Corps, so USAID has been providing for their own members and also paying for the Civilian Deployment Center that all members pass through upon being called up to deploy. F O C U S “We’ve been involved in Afghanistan for over two years now in a variety of roles, with something like 20 to 24 Civilian Response Corps members in country at any given time.”