477 José A Fernández Alfaro Successes and failures of the implementation of ... One of the elements defined as part of the SSR is the inclusion of women in the ANSF. The international community has committed itself to ensuring a rate of 10% women in the ANA (the volume set for the police force is 5,000). These figures have not yet been reached: the 723 women in the ANA and AAF only constitute 0.38% of the total of both military forces; and the 1,743 women in the ANP only constitute 1.13% of the total (bearing in mind that the limit is set at 5,000, they are currently only at 34% of the set quota). The international community considers female participation so important that a specific budget of 25 million dollars has been set aside with the aim of boosting recruitment, integration, retention, training and treatment of women. These figures are of great importance, and even more so if we consider the fact that the SSR only started 13 years ago. When compared to the standard in western countries, these numbers are somewhat insignificant; they do, however, constitute an indication of change in a culture that is so radically different to that of the western countries. 6.5 Measuring capabilities effectiveness Currently, ISAF carries out an evaluation of the ANSF every four months. They evaluate the efficiency of the advising, training and mentoring role carried out by the international armed forces. To do this, various command support tools have been created to allow for the evaluation of each one of the brigade units. Initially, the Capability Milestone (CM) Rating System was used and was designed to evaluate preparation. Later, the Commander’s Unit Assessment Tool (CUAT) was put into use, but it was difficult to use and not very efficient; it established five categories/levels (the Rating Definition Level) to classify the evaluated unites as “independent with advisors, effective with advisors, effective with partners, developing with partners, and established39”. Currently the Regional Command ANSF Assessment Report (RASR) is used, which is a much simpler tool allowing evaluation of units in 6 fundamental areas: • planning and execution of joint operations using combined arms; 39 For details of these five categories or levels, see pages 116 and 117 of Strategy Paper 164: Afghanistan after ISAF. www.ieee.es.
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