Vates Intelligence Support Activities delivers comprehensive stabilisation services rooted in a proven special operations methodology. Our intelligence-led approach ensures precise, effective, and sustainable outcomes in complex and post-conflict environments. From strategic assessments to active response, we provide end-to-end solutions to support governments, international organisations, and select corporate customers in building resilience and achieving operational success.
Our Vates Human Terrain Support Activities (V/HTSA) programme was developed utilising a Special Operations methodology and approach to intelligence-led operations. Our solutions provide customers with a working understanding of the local population and culture (i.e. “Human Terrain”), as well as threats and risks from violent extremist organisations and other threat groups.
Our Stabilisation Capabilities Include
Enabling Resilience Through Intelligence-Led Operations
- Security Sector Reform (SSR): We support security sector reform initiatives through assessments, programme design, and implementation support, working with local and international partners to develop sustainable, effective, and representative security capacity.
- Capacity Building: Vates has extensive experience working with foreign partners to develop institutional capacity and deliver bespoke training for security sector development. We provide adaptive capacity-building programmes tailored to local contexts and strategic objectives.
- Intelligence-Led Research and Analysis: We conduct rigorous research and analysis to inform stabilisation strategies, leveraging local insights and advanced methodologies to map human terrain and identify critical dynamics through our intelligence preparation for operations programme.
- Evaluations and Assessments: Our team delivers high-level assessments to evaluate stability risks, opportunities, and programme effectiveness, providing actionable recommendations for decision-makers. Our assessments provide insight into cultures, perceptions, values, beliefs, interests, needs, and decision-making processes of individuals and groups in the area of operations.
- Monitoring, Evaluation, and Verification: We offer robust monitoring and evaluation services to track programme progress, verify outcomes, and ensure alignment with strategic objectives. Our field networks enable third-party verification in denied areas, including regions under violent extremist organisation (VEO) influence and control.
- Community Engagement and Campaign Design: From concept to implementation, we design and support tailored community engagement initiatives and stabilisation campaigns through our campaign design and implementation programme. We implement courses of action to mitigate distrust and build support from local populations, ensuring the social license to operate is maintained.
- Mediation and Stakeholder Engagement: We provide access to local mediators to assist with community relations, stakeholder engagement, and conflict resolution, allowing customers to build upon gains through effective delivery of core services.
- Active Response and Stabilisation Activities: In newly recovered areas or post-incident scenarios, our stabilisation programme provides rapid-response capabilities including on-the-ground coordination, local engagement, mediation, and operational stabilisation to effect positive outcomes when the social license to operate has deteriorated.
Vates’ stabilisation services enable customers to build lasting stability in the most challenging environments through intelligence-led approaches and proven operational methodologies.
