The purpose of these Guidelines is to provide United Nations personnel with guidance on the establishment and conduct of special investigations in peacekeeping operations. This is the first version of these guidelines.

This document sets out the global standard operating procedures for mission level infrastructure energy management, which is a requirement of DPKO/DFS Environmental Policy for UN Field Missions (2009.6). It sets out the ...

The new DPO Handbook on the Protection of Civilians in United Nations Peacekeeping incorporates and translates into action the principles set out in the recently revised DPO Policy on the Protection of Civilians in UN ...

The purpose of this Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) is to provide detailed procedures for planning and conducting Assessment and Advisory Visits (AAVs) to Troop/Police Contributing Countries (T/PCCs) in accordance with ...

The purpose of these Guidelines is both to provide a legal and operational framework for and to facilitate the safe acquisition of information from human sources for peacekeeping-intelligence (thereafter “HPKI”). These ...

Following the Secretary-General’s call for the UN’s improved engagement with civil society at the local level in his 2018 report on Peacebuilding and Sustaining Peace, a joint UN-civil society working group developed the ...

The purpose of this Policy is to institutionalise the approach and role of United Nations field missions (peacekeeping operations and special political missions) in preventing and responding to conflict-related sexual ...

This joint policy – by the Departments of Operational Support (DOS), Peace Operations (DPO), Peacebuilding and Political Affairs (DPPA), and Safety and Security (DSS) – provides direction on the management of casualty ...

This study examines whether and how human rights components in UN field missions contribute to broader mission mandates, such as mandates focused on politics, peacebuilding and military or police that may not be associated ...

This infographic sheet explains duties of peacekeepers in reducing the environmental footprint in missions.