Capacity building

MINUSMA

Through capacity building, the Climate Security Mechanism (CSM) enables policymakers and practitioners in UN entities and beyond to combine technical and political expertise to develop a shared understanding and approach regarding the complex interlinkages between climate change, peace and security.

The CSM has developed an ambitious capacity building offer that combines initiatives targeted specifically at building skills in the area of climate, peace and security. With efforts at mainstreaming climate, peace and security into broader, already existing training offerings, the CSM has organized and co-organized training sessions for practitioners across the UN system. Much of the content for capacity building also comes from knowledge co-generation and management while the CSM can transform it into pedagogic materials or apply lessons and comparative examples in different contexts. The CSM’s capacity building offer ensures that good practice and co-generated analysis and knowledge are translated to support practitioners’ efforts at developing policies and programmes that effectively address climate, peace and security (CPS) interlinkages, integrating a gender and social inclusion lens.

As of August 2024, 1,185+ UN mission and country team staff as well as other experts have been equipped with knowledge, skills, networks, and resources through CSM-led/supported sessions expected to translate into more systematic CPS analysis, programming, indicators and reporting. CSM-supported training offerings include the MOOC on CPS, the new CPS training curriculum for UN field missions, the first training on CPS Peacebuilding Programming, and the CPS Experts Academy described below.

The CSM also mainstreams CPS into broader UN training offerings (such as the Actionable Conflict Analysis Training in DPPA-DPO). CSM-supported capacity building engagements build on the Toolbox, lessons learned from the UN CPS Practitioners Dialogue (CSM and UNSSC, 2022) and the online course on “Understanding Climate-Related Security Risks Through an Integrated Lens” (UN CC:Learn, UN Women, UNEP, adelphi and CSM, 2022).

Audience

• UN staff from Special Political Missions, Peacekeeping Operations, Country Teams and the DPPA Peacebuilding Support Office (PBSO)
• Policymakers, experts, academia, research institutes, civil society and young graduates