Increasing access to peacekeeping training through E-Learning

This project aims to increase access to peacekeeping training by offering e-learning courses during pre-deployment and in-mission training. It seeks to make the courses available to men and women peacekeepers and government and defence personnel in Africa the Caribbean Latin America South Asia and Asia-Pacific. The target audiences for this training include individual peacekeepers those taking pre-deployment training at their national peacekeeping training centres and those in a peace operations mission. Project activities include: (1) maintaining and updating courses in the course catalogue; (2) improving access to the mobile applications; (3) creating new courses relevant to critical training gaps; (4) maintaining and increasing translations of courses in Arabic French and Spanish; (5) expanding into new partnerships with training centres; and (6) increasing the number of interactive modules and accessibility of course materials in different mediums.

The expected outcomes of this project include: (1) improved effectiveness of men and women peace operations personnel in performing their in-mission duties appropriately and applying the United Nations Security Council Resolutions on Women Peace and Security; and (2) increased efficiency of peace operations training by increasing of the use of mobile e-learning and short interactive modules .