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training of personnel. Pre-de-
ployment training shall be desi-
gned to complement initiatives
by different actors at different
levels, and training institutions
shall work in close consulta-
tion – where possible – with
mission leadership to ensure
that pre-deployment training is
aligned with the standards and
guidelines set by the mission.
6. Mainstreaming gender in trai-
ning
Gender mainstreaming is an
essential cornerstone of the
comprehensive strategy adop-
ted to systematically enhance
the effectiveness of peaceke-
eping operations worldwide. UNITAR
Applying a gender lens to all fit equally and inequality is not While various capacity-related and
areas, levels, and chronologi- perpetuated.”3 Training institu- political obstacles still stand on
cal stages of a peacekeeping tions have a major role to play the way of the seamless delivery
mission isn’t simply a matter of in this field, by not only integra- on mission mandates, UNITAR
better protecting women and ting in trainings the conceptual remains committed to sustaining
girls, but rather a “strategy for and policy framework surroun- peace in Africa and globally, and
making the concerns and expe- ding the operationalization convinced that pre-deployment
riences of women and men an of the goal of gender equali- training is crucial in overcoming
integral dimension of design, ty through peacekeeping, but some of the challenges that pea-
implementation, monitoring most crucially by shifting mind- cekeepers are facing today. The-
and evaluation of policies and sets and altering behaviour of refore, the Institute will continue its
programmes in all political, those who are expected and effort to empower peacekeepers to
economic and societal spheres mandated to bring about such be more effective and efficient du-
so that women and men bene- ambitious change. ring their deployment with a goal
of eventually making the need for
peacekeeping obsolete.

Claudia Croci
& UNITAIR Staff

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