The Police Induction Training Project was launched by the Swedish Police in cooperation with UNMIL and DPKO to develop an induction training programme for UNPOL in UNMIL with the view that this programme could serve as a model for other peacekeeping operations. The objectives of the Project were to make UNPOL understand their role in implementing the mission mandate and their responsibility to work in partnership with local counterparts and thereby increase the quality of UNPOL’s work and shorten the time it takes for newly arrived UNPOL officers to commence support to mission operations. The overarching strategic objective of the project was thus to increase the effectiveness of UNPOL’s work in implementing the mission mandate.
A new induction training programme has been implemented in UNMIL since September 2013.
The initial results of the project have been well received by DPKO and they have requested the Swedish Police to explore the possibility of replicating the project in other missions.
Before taking the project further the project needed to be evaluated so lessons can be learned and its usefulness can be assessed. The purpose of the evaluation would be to evaluate if the new training better prepares UNPOL officers for their work in UNMIL and if a similar change in induction training in other missions would be useful.
All the time taking the circumstances and limitations of UN PKOs into consideration.
Mandating organisation / agency / department / ministry
Target organisation type(s)
Related activities
Mandate outputs / products
An evaluation report
Outcome objectives of mandate
Assessment of usefulness of project, assessment of usefulness of replicating project in other missions, assessment of improvement of induction training in UNMIL.
