Pre-Deployment Training Course
Pre-Deployment Course Sahel
17 July 2012 - 20 July 2012
Brussels, Belgium
This intensive 4-day pre-deployment training course is designed for experts being deployed to the Sahel region, focusing on Niger. The course is open to experts from institutions working in the area of civilian crisis management in the region.
The overall objectives of the pre-deployment training are to create a common understanding of the assignment among all participants and prepare their deployment to the Sahel region. While the training will focus on Niger, it also will cover the region’s cultural, societal and political context, regional and international actors involved in crisis management and the areas of Security Sector Reform as well as Human Rights and Rule of Law in the Sahel region. The course will specifically adress the EU CSDP mission building phase in the region. At the end of the course all mission members and other course participants will have a common understanding of the EU’s policy strategy in the country and region, current state of play, the mission’s mandate and a specific understanding of each their tasks and responsibilities.
The course is made up of the following four modules:
- Introductions
- Niger/Sahel State of play today
- Strategic Challenges of civilian crisis management in the region
- Operational Challenges of civilian crisis management in the region
By focusing on the challenges of the mission build up, the course aims to equip the course participants with the essential tools, knowledge and information necessary to complete the mission build up and enable them to operate smoothly in the area of assignment.
Implementing Partners
Lead implementing body: Royal Institute for International Relations (Egmont Institute), Belgium
Other partner implementing bodies: Center for International peace Operations (ZIF), Germany
ENTRi Certification
This course has been certified by ENTRi. For more information on the ENTRi certification process, please click here.
