Member State Bodies and the Peace building Partnership Presented by: Veronica CODY Head of Unit: Concepts, Civilian Capabilities, Training, Exercises and Lessons Learned At Consultation Meeting for IfS Crises Preparedness component (Art.4.3 Strategy Paper and Annual Action Programme 2011)

Title of this session (IfS Crisis Preparedness: Lessons Learned ) Looking backward at use of IfS and experience gained Selecting two projects for analysis: EC Project on Civilian Crisis Management Training and the EU Police Forces Training (EUPFT)

EC Project on Civilian Crisis Management Training I Essentially a consortium of Member States’ training providers funded by the IfS and coordinated by the Commission services to develop training courses on civilian crisis management, including for CSDP. At initial stage an inclusive project, any Member State could join. Tasks included helping Member States without training providers to develop them. Member States created a common platform for developing highest standards of training.

EC Project on Civilian Crisis Management Training II Much good work was done: – Development of a great number of courses in the security domain – Wide range of subjects treated – Courses offered to all Member States and not just members of the consortium – Participation in courses largely paid by IfS, so little cost to Member States – Instrument of help in carrying out training needs assessment eventually used to prepare training concept for EULEX Kosovo

EC Project on Civilian Crisis Management Training III However, some negative aspects – While great numbers were trained there was no central register of who was trained and in what discipline/subject – Of those trained, relatively few actually deployed to CSDP missions/operations – weak link between training and recruitment – The “low-cost” factor may have encouraged a degree of “training tourism”. Certainly, there was less need to justify the training – Certain degree of wastefulness of resources

New project: ENTRi Learning from this experience – New consortium has been created with a leading member (Germany’s ZIF) called ENTRi – Focus on pre-deployment training of personnel already selected for deployment to CSDP missions or other international crisis management operations, ensuring direct link between training and deployment – maximum exploitation of resources – Steering mechanism to include relevant EEAS services in order to provide feedback and guidance on CSDP operational needs – Ongoing interface and interaction between policy makers on training and training providers ensuring state of the art training

EU Police Forces Training (EUPTF) Very successful project: – 2007 budget 0.6M Implementation in France 2008 – 600 trainees – 2008 budget 0.65M Implementation in Italy 2009 – 600 trainees – 2009 budget 0.7M Implementation in Germany 2010 – 600 trainees _____________________________________________________ Training limited to EU Member States but other countries were invited as observers as was the UN 1800 trainees in 3 years

EU Police Task Force (EUPTF) Experience gained showed value of renewing this project for a future 3 years, but also extending its budget and range of participants

BUDGET

EU Police Services Training (EUPST) 4.5 M for 3 years: trainees Outreaching to third countries (20% of trainees are from non-EU countries contributing to ESDP missions) Outreaching to AU (20% trainees are from African police forces) which both contributes to capacity in AU and enhances interoperability with AU police forces

THANK YOU! QUESTIONS?