Training and Guidance
Collection of training and guidance materials produced by UN departments. Training and Guidance Materials include:
.- policies
- guidelines
- Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)
- handbook and manuals
- lessons learned and best practices
Sub-collections
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Peacekeeping
Serves as a repository for all official DPO and DOS training and guidance materials.
New items
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Environmental Good Practice: 2020 Implementation of the Environment Strategy for Field Missions
(2020-12-20)This document highlights good practices that have emerged from the 2019 implementation of the DOS Environment Strategy for Field Missions. -
From Words to Action: The Experiences of UN Special Political Missions in Colombia on Women, Peace and Security
(2020-10-20)The Colombian peace process and its 2016 Final Peace Agreement are widely held to be an international model for gender-sensitivity and the inclusion of women’s rights. The United Nations (UN) played an active role, along ... -
UN Support to Local Mediation: Challenges and Opportunities
(2020-11-20)This publication by DPPA's Mediation Support Unit outlines various opportunities and challenges related to the UN's involvement in support of local mediation and dialogue processes. The paper draws on insights emanating ... -
Practical Guidance for Mediators to Protect Children in Situations of Armed Conflict (2020)
(2020-02)Although it is widely acknowledged that the protection of children’s rights is essential to community stability and development, the consideration of child protection in peacemaking needs greater attention. Children’s ... -
Brochure on Gender-responsive Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration: Promoting the Women, Peace and Security Agenda
(2020-12-20)In the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the UN Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000), the Department of Peace Operations has compiled a series of good practices, lessons learned as well as stories from the field ... -
COVID 19 Pre-deployment awareness Training (UN C-PAT)
(2020-10)<New Pre-Deployment Training on COVID-19> The Division of Healthcare Management and Occupational Safety and Health of the Department of Operational Support has developed the United Nations COVID 19 Pre-deployment awareness ... -
Consultation on “Strengthening UN Peace Operations Support to Gender-Responsive Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration and Security Sector Reform: Leveraging opportunities and lessons learnt”
(2020-12-12)The Department of Peace Operations’ Gender Unit, in close collaboration with the DDR Section and the SSR Unit of the Office of Rule of Law and Security Institutions, organized a consultation on “Strengthening UN peace ... -
2020.18 Prevention, Investigation and Prosecution of Serious Crimes Committed against United Nations Personnel in Peacekeeping Operations and Special Political Missions (SOP)
(2020-12-01)The purpose of these Standard Operating Procedures (hereinafter, “Procedures”) is to establish key modalities and responsibilities for the prevention, investigation and referral of cases of serious crimes committed against ... -
2018.06 Field Verification and Control of Contingent-Owned Equipment and Management of Memorandum of Understanding (Guidelines)
(2018-05-01)The purpose of these Guidelines is to describe the procedures and best practices to be implemented in the field for the verification and control of Contingent-owned Equipment (COE) and management of Memorandum of Understanding ... -
Preventing, Mitigating & Resolving Transhumance-Related Conflicts in UN Peacekeeping Settings: A Survey of Practice
(2020-11-15)This survey of practice, produced by the Civil Affairs Team in DPET/DPO, is based on a review of current practices, challenges and opportunities in peacekeeping settings while also drawing from external expertise and ... -
Going Further Together: The Contribution of Human Rights Components to the Implementation of Mandates of United Nations Field Missions
(2020-10-01)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 ... -
United Nations Community Engagement Guidelines on Peacebuilding and Sustaining Peace
(2020-08)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 ... -
DOS/2020.5 Guidance Development and Promulgation (SOP)
(2020-09-08)This standard operating procedure (SOP) provides instructions for the development, promulgation, roll-out, and review of guidance materials within the authority of the Under-Secretary-General (USG) for Operational Support. ... -
2020.12 End of Assignment Reports (EoAR) (SOP)
(2020-09-01)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. -
2020.11 Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning (Policy)
(2020-09-01)This policy sets out the guiding principles of knowledge management and organizational learning in DPO and DPPA and in their field missions. It outlines the roles and responsibilities of managers and personnel and defines ... -
2020.04 Selection and Extension of Military Senior Appointments in Field Missions (SOP)
(2020-07)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 ... -
2020.05 Acquisition of Information from Human Sources for Peacekeeping-Intelligence (HPKI) (Guideline)
(2020-09-01)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 ... -
2020.15 Peacekeeping-Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Staff (PKISR) Handbook
(2020-09)The aim of this Handbook is to support staff deployed in Peacekeeping-Intelligence (PKI) roles in UN peacekeeping operations to manage the Peacekeeping-Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (PKISR) assets available ... -
2020.03 United Nations Military Engineer Unit & CET Search and Detect Manual
(2020-01)This Manual describes the United Nations (UN) Military Engineer Unit and Counter Explosive Threat (CET) - Search and Detect process, focusing on Military Engineer support to a UN Mission1 and Force Headquarters (FHQ). The ... -
2020.10 Planning and Conducting Assessment and Advisory Visits (AAVs) (SOP)
(2020-08-01)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 ...