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Gender Training for Security Sector Personnel |
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In order to build effective, non-discriminatory and representative security sector institutions, it is essential to provide security sector personnel with effective and sustainable gender training and capacity-building. Preventing sexual harassment and gender-based violence perpetrated by security forces, as well as creating a respectful and healthy work environment for male and female staff are just two of the main objectives of these training processes.
The UN-INSTRAW Gender, Peace and Security Programme works to document experiences and best practices, to build knowledge communities gender training practitioners and to formulate guidelines and recommendations for the promotion of systematic and effective gender training within the security sector. In this area the Institute’s focus has been on participatory and inclusive development of action-oriented tools for practitioners, including:
Gender Training for UN Peacekeepers 
- This interactive website provides a global overview of pre-deployment and in-mission gender training. Scrolling over different continents in this web site allows the user to explore the different resources for gender training among UN peacekeepers.
- Download the UN-INSTRAW Working Paper on Gender Training for UN Peacekeepers, which aims to provide comprehensive background information about current gender training efforts for UN peacekeepers.
- Listen to an Audio Interview with the MINUSTAH Gender Advisor, Nadine Puechuirgal
Gender Training for Security Sector Personnel: Best Practices
- Within the scope of a joint project on gender and security sector reform, UN-INSTRAW, DCAF and OSCE/ODIHR held a global virtual discussion with over 140 participants on the topic of gender training for security sector personnel in order to share experiences and identify best practices. The summary, background paper and bibliography are available online.
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