Benefits

TROOP CONTRIBUTING COUNTRIES (TCC)

  • Opportunity to receive professional training and build increased engineering, medical, and C4ISR and camp security technologies capabilities for deployment to UN peacekeeping and AU peace support missions.

OTHER MEMBER STATES

  • Opportunity to contribute to peacekeeping and AU peace support operations through the provision of expertise, trainers, training facilities, equipment (*bilateral provision), funding, services, and by fostering partnerships between TCCs to establish more effective missions, promote stability and security, advance mandate delivery and improve accountability and performance.

UNITED NATIONS

  • More effective peace operations with an expanded pool of well-trained and equipped military engineering units, medical staff, C4ISR and camp security technologies personnel, and TCCs’ units. Increased capacity to respond to urgent medical needs and specialist support from a higher level of care. Enhancement of partnerships with the AU through contributions to peace support operations.

CROSS-CUTTING BENEFITS

  • Standardisation of training in engineering, medical, and C4ISR and camp security technologies in partnership with leading expert providers within and beyond the UN.
  • Support to the 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.

SECURITY OF PEACEKEEPERS

  • Improve the provision of appropriate and timely medical care to peacekeepers in remote environments and reduce need for unnecessary medical evacuations.
  • Improve access to a broader array of healthcare options within missions and establish mechanisms for more expert-to-expert consultations (collaborative medical care) between medical facilities.
  • Provide medical support to locations without on-site specialists.
A group of Heavy Engineering Equipment (HEE) operators
The Heavy Engineering Equipment (HEE) operator course conducted in Nairobi, Kenya