Objectives

The project aims to strengthen the capacity of African (T/PCCs) to deploy personnel who are trained to DPO and DOS standards to United Nations-led peacekeeping operations and to build mission training capacity to support them once deployed.

It also aims to provide training support to other T/PCCs which deploy personnel to African peacekeeping missions, Member States which provide capacity-building support to T/PCCs.

Components

This is the eighth phase of the project which is focused on building sustainable training capacity in T/PCCs and missions deployed in Africa.

In 2025, the project maintains its focus on delivering ToT courses, specifically targeting African T/PCCs, partners supporting these contributors, and new or emerging T/PCCs. It emphasizes building sustainable in-mission training capacity to address military, police, and civilian needs. Main components include enhancing the training skills of mission trainers, leveraging Artificial Intelligence to develop training programmes, designing and delivering exercises to strengthen mission resilience, and improving national capacity to prepare and deploy units to peacekeeping missions. The project also features two unit-level ToT courses: one for infantry battalions, the most deployed units in peacekeeping, and another for formed police units, which play a critical role in civilian protection and mission security tasks.

Main achievements

The project activities are planned to start in October 2025.

Impact

The ToT courses build sustainable national and mission training capacity to deliver United Nations standard training across rotations. This reduces reliance on bilateral support, external trainers, and direct assistance from DPO and DOS, particularly through the integration of Artificial Intelligence.