Ensure each mission has a Female Engagement Team (FET) capability; (in a UN mission
context, "FET" refers to 30 women added to an Infantry Bn for the purpose of going on
patrol with male soldiers and creating a mixed patrol);
Ensure the Intelligence and Operations staff receive a back brief from the meetings in order to
feed information into the planning cycle and to enhance situational awareness;
Allocate resources to support Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) in the field.
Implications.
If these recommendations are not followed, then:
Situational awareness will be poor which leads to weak protection of civilians strategies;
Civilians will continue to be attacked;
The reputation of the UN will be undermined as it is not protecting civilians.
Event Description.
This lesson is based on the personal experience of the MONUSCO Military Child Protection and
Gender Adviser 2014, Major Rachel Grimes (UK) in Eringetti, North Kivu, DRC 2014.
Lesson Author: Rachel Grimes, MONUSCO Military Child Protection and Gender
Adviser 2014
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Editor’s Note: The province of North Kivu (with
capital city Goma) is in the east of the DRC, bordering
Lake Kivu and the countries of Uganda and Rwanda.
The Rwandan Genocide of 1994 precipitated a refugee
crisis in the region and sparked what has become the
current armed conflict. Following the Second Congo
War which took place from 1998-2003, myriad armed
groups continue to operate in eastern DRC and exploit
its rich natural resources. Millions of people have been
displaced amidst the ongoing violence.
MONUSCO is a UN Peacekeeping mission
established in the DRC to protect civilians and to
support the DRC Government in stabilization and
peace consolidation amidst this conflict. This mission
took over from a prior UN Organization Mission in
the DRC (MONUC) in July 2010. For more
information on MONUSCO, including its current mandate, see the mission website at:
http://www.un.org/en/peacekeeping/missions/monusco/index.shtml. See also the MONUSCO
Estimate in the SOLLIMS database.
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