PSO Training

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PSO Training Education Standards Evaluation

• Syndicate 4

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Agenda

• What requires Standardisation?
• Who is Responsible?
• How to Deal with Issues of Standards?
• Conclusion

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What Requires Standardisation?

• SGTM, STM 2 SML
• UN Operating SOP
• UN Mission
• UN PKF HQ
• Basic Combat Tasks/Skills
• UN Mission Handbook, e..g., UNMO Handbook
• UN Mission related Tasks

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Who is Responsible?

• UN is to establish solicit support
• Regional organization National Govt are to
  enforce maintain
• TCC train to meet desired standards conditions

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How to Deal with the Issue of Standards?

• Setting the Standards/Conditions to be met Who
  and What?
• Proven by operations
• Learn from more established armed forces
• Meet specific mission conditions
• Set at an achievable level

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UN Level

• Challenges to standardisation
• Lean staffing of UN DPKO
• Convincing member states
• Inadequate expertise
• Assess compliance of standards
• Financial constraints
• Recommendations
• Participation of member states
• Network with regional private institutions
• Train TCC to do own evaluation
• Capable member states to increase financial
  contribution

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At Other Levels

• Regional organization National Govt
• Challenges to standardisation
• Incompatible standards between member states
  agreed UN standards
• Recommendations
• ???
• TCC
• Challenges to standardisation
• Inadequate expertise
• Shortages of resources Finance, logistic,
  staffing
• Recommendations
• Train-the-Trainers
• 3rd Party support

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Conclusion

• UN, Regional Organisation National Government
• Have a role to play in setting standards
• Certain responsibility to implement maintain
• Contribute in whatever capacity to overcome the
  implementation challenges

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Clarifications
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UN Mission related Tasks

• Military Competencies
• Dealing with asymmetric threats
• Dealing with IED, WMD, etc
• Dealing with hostile non-combatants/civilians
• Security for Human Security, Humanitarian
  Assistance, return to normalcy and civilian rule
• Relations with humanitarian NGOs
• Law enforcement
• Sharing of Military Intelligence
• Rear area security operations
• Force Protection
• Control of Rogue units
• Public Information
• Psychological operations
• Information campaign
• Information Operations/Strategic Communications
• Military Support to civilian agencies/Civil-milita
  ry Co-operation