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Provide point-of-contact services;
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Maintain uninterrupted communications with all UN peacekeeping missions and be able to communicate with all other UN missions worldwide;
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Solicit information from the field;
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Collate and disseminate in a timely fashion raw information;
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Develop, in coordination with UN Headquarters services, enhanced communications, data processing and multiple visual display facilities;
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Prepare consolidated summaries;
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Provide daily briefings to senior managers and ad-hoc briefings upon request;
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Maintain constant situation displays and provide continuous event monitoring;
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Provide reference materials (including maps, statistics, and basic political, military and economic information) via access to in-house and public databases;
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Maintain a database for statistics on casualties and fatalities that occur in UN peacekeeping missions;
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Monitor developing regional situations that could affect the security and safety of UN personnel, using all available external sources and UN information channels;
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Provide crisis response capabilities in the event that a peacekeeping mission has to be implemented on short notice or a crisis occurs in the field;
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Produce assessments of political, military and security trends that affect ongoing and potential peacekeeping operations, including research on relevant thematic issues;
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Prepare weekly briefings to DPKO staff and Member States, as well as weekly updates on selected areas.
