This policy defines the approach and principles guiding the activities of justice components of United Nations peacekeeping operations, led by the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO), and special political missions, ...

The purpose of the DPKO-DFS Guidelines on Improvised Explosive Device (IED) Threat Mitigation in Missions Settings is to provide practitioners with a generic set of planning and coordination considerations fro IED threat ...

Since their introduction in MONUSCO in 2010, Community Liaison Assistants (CLAs) have become a successful tool to support community engagement in peace operations. Research for this survey has indicated that the experiences ...

As stated in the DPKO/DFS Mission Evaluation Policy, the primary purpose of evaluations is to strengthen the ability of DPKO/DFS and missions to accumulate and utilize experience, thus enhancing peacekeeping operations. ...

By its resolution 2154 (2014), the Security Council noted ‘with deep appreciation how Captain Mbaye Diagne of UNAMIR1 and of Senegal saved, unarmed and in the face of extreme danger, hundreds of, or perhaps even a thousand, ...

This Manual describes the United Nations Military/Combat Transport Unit, a unique entity that comes into existence only when peacekeeping contingencies require military ground transport due to less permissive security ...

This SOP has been developed to assist Peacekeeping staff in understanding and executing their responsibilities to label, file and clean-up information in accordance with UN policies on record keeping and information ...

The Community Violence Reduction (CVR) programme of MINUSTAH was established in 2006. The purpose of the present Lessons Learned Exercise (LLE) is to review the five most recent years of the CVR programme and to extract ...

The purpose of these Guidelines is to support the guidance development process at the mission level, in line with the DPKO-DFS Policy on Guidance Development (2014.14), by assisting missions in the establishment of a clear ...

This standard operating procedure (SOP) provides instructions for vacancy management and succession planning of heads of police component (HoPCs) as experts on mission in United Nations peacekeeping operations and special ...