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.

The purpose of the Gender Equality and Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Resource Package is to enhance the skills and capacity of DPO personnel, as guided by the ten Security Council resolutions on WPS and further elaborated ...

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 ...

These Guidelines provide a Planning Officer in Mission Support Centre (MSC) with a structured approach to Service and Section Chiefs with a logical request for planning input, to start the development of a Mission / Field ...

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 Policy on Joint Mission Analysis Centres (JMAC) provides guidance on the establishment and functioning of JMAC in peacekeeping operations to ensure that missions have in place an entity capable of collecting and analysing ...

This Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) provides the procedure followed by the Department of Peace Operations (DPO) – Office of Military Affairs (OMA) in the selection and appointment of serving military officers into ...

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 ...

This Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) sets out the procedure for the preparation, submission, processing and dissemination of EoARs for senior DPO and DPPA personnel in field missions and at UN Headquarters.

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 ...