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PRE-DEPLOYMENT TRAINING - LESSONS LEARNED
• In this regard, it is extremely tection, it is desirable to place roles and responsibilities and
useful and ideal to conduct FTX a civilian trainer with mili- enhance cooperation among them.
after completion of classroom tary/ police trainers on the site. • Female Engagement Team
training by preparing the field • In the beginning of FTX, it is (FET) Training
as close as possible to the not unusual to see some par- Role and responsibility of FET in
actual AOR of the PKO Mission. ticipants making wrong de- the PKO missions has significan-
• During FTX, participants would cisions, getting panicked, or ce especially in response to POC
receive daily tasks such as foot doing nothing. However, after mandate . While many T/PCCs
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patrol, escorting high rank dealing with several inciden- still do not manage to deploy fair
civilians and conducting dia- ts, they would start to have balanced number of male/ fema-
logue with local communi- a better acquaintance with le peacekeepers, specific training
ty. And during such activities, the field ambience and more for FET should be considered.
they would face “incidents”, confident in their decision. • Follow-up trainings
such as ambush, protest from Ideally, FTX requires vast are- Once peacekeepers are deployed
local community, encounte- as however it can still be to the field, they would have more
ring victims of CRSV seeking conducted in smaller space. questions and therefore In-mission
their help. Incidents should training is crucial for their succes-
be realistic and relevant to 3. Other elements to enrich PDT sful activities. Also, Post-mission re-
respective missions whe- view upon their return is important
re participants are deployed. (1) Parallel or other trainings for storing institutional memory
• The participants’ performan- • Civil, police and mili- and preparation for the future PDT.
ce should be closely moni- tary relations training
tored by facilitators/ trainers Given the needs for integrated (2) Support to under-resourced
who should give them advi- approach to fulfill protection man- T/PCCs, training centers and
trainers
ce after the exercise. When date, mixed audience training on • Material support to uniformed
the incidents are related with related subjects i.e. POC, child peacekeepers
POC/CRSV/ Child pro- protection and CRSV will boost un-
derstanding to each component’s Some T/PCCs have limited resour-
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