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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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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)
50% staff in 2004 survey reported having to “reinvent the wheel” SG Report December 2007 A/62/593
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
Knowledge Sharing: collection & connection(governed by KS Policy ) Best Practices Toolbox Resources
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
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
PBPS website - PK Resource Hub http://www.unprh.unlb.org/PBPS/Pages/Public/Home.aspx
BP Resourcescontinued… (d) 25 online knowledge information-sharing networks
Collect Sort Analyze Consult Recommend Different reviews Major issues & trendsper sector OperationsPoliceMission SupportMilitaryOUSGPeacebuilding Processing BP reports and information at HQ
KM statistics May 2006 – August 2010
Intranet: 1365 Best Practices materials: • 833 BP reports (EoAR, AAR, LL) • 320 mission materials 2. BP Community of Practice: 768 entries
“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
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?
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:
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 .
Collective experience MINUSTAH was able to organize the escort of humanitarian convoys in Haiti using examples of guiding documents developed by MONUC, MINURCAT & UNAMID
Innovations A road construction project in Liberia demonstrated where military engineering assetsemployed 75,000 people (30% ex combatants) resulted in peacebuilding dividends (EoAR)