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Peacekeeping Best Practices

Peacekeeping Best Practices. Continuous growth in scale & complexity. Brahimi: Peacekeeping is not temporary!! Shift from ad hoc institutionalizing a professional system.

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Peacekeeping Best Practices

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  1. Peacekeeping Best Practices

  2. Continuous growth in scale & complexity

  3. Brahimi: Peacekeeping is not temporary!! Shift from adhoc institutionalizing a professional system. “With peacekeeping having seemingly reached a peak and now a plateau, we have now an opportunity to take further steps towards finding solutions to these challenges ” USG Le Roy (GA UN Peacekeeping Debate June 2010)

  4. 50% staff in 2004 survey reported having to “reinvent the wheel” SG Report December 2007 A/62/593

  5. Peacekeeping Best Practices Section Policy & Best Practices Teams Thematic Advisors Guidance Knowledge Management Gender Child Protection HIV/AIDS Civil Affairs Policy-Planning 5 Civilian & 3 Military Field Best Practices Officers & 8 Focal Points

  6. Guidance and Policy Planning

  7. Guidance framework

  8. 2010 Policy and Lessons Learning Agenda

  9. Knowledge sharing and management

  10. Knowledge Sharing: collection & connection(governed by KS Policy ) Best Practices Toolbox Resources

  11. structured way of identifying and sharing best practices and lessons learned BP Toolbox • End of Assignment Reports • After Action Reviews • Surveys of Practice • Less. Learned Reports + • Practice Note • Exit interviews

  12. Best Practices Resources (b) Best Practices Officers • Help ‘recycle’ work done elsewhere to save time and resources • Set up learning tools and connect staff to peers in other missions; • Capture lessons from the mission’s experience • Policy and practice research (a) KM Team • Analyses BP material to identify trends,issuesandgood practices; • Coordinates the network of BPOs; • Informs the strategy and policy planning agenda of DPKO-DFS; • Builds the organizational institutional memory

  13. PBPS website - PK Resource Hub http://www.unprh.unlb.org/PBPS/Pages/Public/Home.aspx

  14. BP Resourcescontinued… (d) 25 online knowledge information-sharing networks

  15. Collect Sort Analyze Consult Recommend Different reviews Major issues & trendsper sector OperationsPoliceMission SupportMilitaryOUSGPeacebuilding Processing BP reports and information at HQ

  16. KM statistics May 2006 – August 2010

  17. Intranet: 1365 Best Practices materials: • 833 BP reports (EoAR, AAR, LL) • 320 mission materials 2. BP Community of Practice: 768 entries

  18. “How to” materials • Among top 10 Peace Operations Intranet documents based on the number of downloads • Rosters for the deployment of civilian experts, HQs LL • Bukavu crisis • Security Sector Reform

  19. Examples of issues and lessons identified

  20. BP COP questions yielding high response • How missions address occupational safety? • Fire prevention and safety in missions? • How to establish mission staff welfare services? • What are the field office structure and reporting mechanisms? • How does the mission build the capacity of local media?

  21. Added value of knowledge management

  22. Effectiveness UNOCI shared the lessonsof crowd control tacticslearnedfrom the riots. This led to the revision of the policy on Formed Police Units. (AAR, January 2006) Lessons Policy & Guidance:

  23. Lessons translating into guidance Gender Military Guidelines: drawing from experiences and lessons in the field to develop “how to’s” at strategic, operational and tactical levels. UNMIN incorporated the experiences of UNMIK and ONUB .

  24. Collective experience MINUSTAH was able to organize the escort of humanitarian convoys in Haiti using examples of guiding documents developed by MONUC, MINURCAT & UNAMID

  25. Innovations A road construction project in Liberia demonstrated where military engineering assetsemployed 75,000 people (30% ex combatants) resulted in peacebuilding dividends (EoAR)

  26. Questions?

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