BENEFITS

The Heavy Engineering Equipment (HEE) operator course conducted in Nairobi, Kenya

TROOP CONTRIBUTING COUNTRIES (TCC)

Opportunity to receive professional training and build or improve capabilities in Engineering, Medical, and C4ISR and Camp security for deployment to peacekeeping missions

OTHER MEMBER STATES

Opportunity to contribute to peacekeeping and its enabling capacity through the provision of expertise, trainers, training facilities, funding and services and foster partnerships with TCCs to better establish missions, advance security, promote stability, advance mandate delivery and improve peacekeeping performance

UNITED NATIONS

More effective peace operations with an expanded pool of well-trained and equipped military engineering units, medical personnel and C4ISR and camp security personnel and TCC signals units

CROSS-CUTTING BENEFITS

  • Standardization of training in engineering, medical and C4ISR and camp security
  • Support for more efficient deployment of mission facilities, camps, bases and other infrastructures in complex environments
  • Potential to replicate the concept of triangular partnership to other enabling capacities
  • Enhanced performance and effectiveness of uniformed peacekeepers in line with UN standard operational requirements
  • Opportunity to increase the number of female peacekeepers through training in engineering, medical and C4ISR

 SECURITY OF PEACEKEEPERS

  • Improve the provision of appropriate and timely care to peacekeepers in remote environments and reduce medical evacuations
  • Improve access to a broader array of healthcare options within a mission and establish a mechanism for more expert-to-expert consultations between medical facilities
  • Provide medical support to remote locations without on-site specialists