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Strengthening peacekeeping capacity with a focus on Africa - Phase Four

Lead Entity/ies
Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPO), Integrated Training Service
Collaborating Partners
Other elements of DPO, DOS
Duration
January - December 2021
Location
African troop- and police-contributing countries (T/PCCs), Member States committing to peacekeeping for the first time or significantly increasing their contributions to African peacekeeping missions. Senior military and police commanders from the top T/PCCs.
Approved Budget
$ 1,486,695
Description/outline
The project provided 14 capacity building activities to T/PCCs to deploy appropriately trained personnel. These entailed trainings and training-of-trainer (TOT) courses.
Status
Completed

Synopsis

Objectives

The project aims to strengthen the capacity of African T/PCCs, and those who support African T/PCCs, to deploy personnel who are trained to DPO and DOS standards to UN-led peacekeeping operations.

Components

Training activities and one police capacity providers¡¯ meeting.

Main achievements

The project completed 14 activities, benefiting 230 personnel, including 37 women: one UN infantry battalion TOT (19 participants), one UN National Planners course (27 participants, including 6 women), one Peacekeeping Military Intelligence TOT (12 participants, including one woman), one Operational Logistics Officer TOT (19 participants, including 5 women), two mobile training teams (Gabon: 18 participants and Rwanda: 20 participants, including three women), three UN Police pre-deployment training courses (Turkey: 33 participants including five women, Italy: 18 participants, including 3 women, Finland:14 participants, including 2 women), one police Light Coordination Mechanism meeting, three training course on design and delivery of training (Police Specific Induction Training: 13 participants, including four women; Design and Delivery workshop: 12 participants, including four women; Police Specific Induction Training programme: nine participants, including four women), and the pilot course in peacekeeping-intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (16 participants), using the materials developed in the project.

Impact

By strengthening the capacity of T/PCCs to deploy appropriately trained personnel, the project supports both efforts to protect and sustain peace (participation in global governance) and to build strong training institutions which are intended to be self-sufficient and reflect the norms of the United Nations.

people sitting at a long table some wearing masks and in conversationUN National Planners course

a woman at the head of a room pointing at a digital projectionUN National Planners course

classroom in sessionPolice pre-deployment training, Turkey

one man writes on a paper board while others look onUN infantry battalion training of trainer course