UNITED NATIONS POLICE
STANDARDIZED BEST PRACTICES
TOOLKIT ON
GENDER MAINSTREAMING
POLICING IN PEACEKEEPING
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UNPOL GENDER
TOOLKIT
MODULE 3
LESSON 5
ESTABLISHING SGBV INVESTIGATIVE POLICE
STRUCTURES
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Learning Objectives
 Identify the steps for preparing, constructing, operationalizing,
and monitoring and evaluating a project to establish a
specialized SGBV police unit
 Produce a concept note and project proposal
 Develop a strategy and action plan
 Create a monitoring and evaluation framework
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Why is it important to have an SGBV
investigative structure?
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Expected outcome
Will increase the
conviction rate of
SGBV offenders
Will increase police’s ability to prevent crimes
from happening through community engagement
and knowledge of victim and offender profiles
Why is it important to have an SGBV
investigative structure?
Can be vital to the
investigation of the
specifics of SGBV crimes
Will encourage victims
to report due to
increased trust
Will decrease
revictimization
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Activity
According to the group assigned to you, discuss and
enumerate the steps towards accomplishing one of
the processes below.
Monitoring
and
evaluating
Operationalisation
Preparation
and
construction
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Expected outcomes
Preparation and construction
1. Assess needs
2. Identify partners
within the HSP
3. Select a structure
4. Obtain approval
5. Raise funds
1. Negotiate at the
local level
2. Initiate
procurement process
3. Perform
formalization process
4. Manage staffing
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Expected outcomes
Operationalisation
1. Develop an SOP and train
officers
2. Formulate a strategy and an
action plan
3. Create a data collection system
4. Establish a victim referral
network
5. Disseminate information on
the SGBV police unit
Monitoring and
evaluating
1. Understand the process of
monitoring and evaluating
2. Develop a Monitoring and
Evaluation framework
3. Select indicators
4. Adapt reporting formats to
the audience
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Group Discussion: Challenges
1. Divide into syndicate
groups.
2. Debate according to the
card you have received
from the instructor. You will
have 10 minutes.
3. Share findings with the
large group.
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Activity: Project
1. Based on your findings, your instructor will assign
your group a different phase of establishing SGBV
units.
2. Your group will have 15 minutes to develop the
related tools.
Preparation and
construction
Project proposal
Terms of reference
Operationalisation
Strategy
Action Plan
Monitoring and
evaluating
M&E framework
3. Share your achievements with the group.
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Expected outcome: Project Proposal
A project proposal is an expansion of the concept note, as well as
a request for financial assistance to implement a project
3.2 Timing
3.3 Monitoring and evaluation
1. Issue/problem statement
2. Project description/outputs
2.1 Project description
2.2 Objective
2.3 Activities and outputs
2.4 Expected outcomes
3. Expected outcomes
3.1 Management
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5.
6.
7.
8.
Risk management
Sustainability
Detailed costing
Contact details
Annexes
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Expected outcome: Project Proposal
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Defines the vision and mission of the
unit, its core functions, and the duties
and responsibilities of staff.
Expected outcome: Terms of Reference
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Expected outcome: Strategy
A strategy helps plan and
organize resources to optimize
the achievement of the
proposed goals.
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Expected outcome: Strategy
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Expected outcome: Action Plan
An action plan is a document
which lists the steps to be
taken in detail to achieve
specific objectives.
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Expected outcome: Action Plan
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Expected outcome: M&E Framework
Expected
results
Indicators
Data collection methods
Baseline
data
Targets
Data Sources
Frequency
Responsibility
Reporting
A Monitoring and Evaluation Framework helps you
identify indicators and how to track them.
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Expected outcome: M&E Framework
Expected
results
Indicators
Baseline
data
Targets
Data Sources
What do you
want to
achieve?
What are
you
measuring?
What is
the current
value?
What is the
source of
data?
What is the
source of the
data?
Data collection
methods
Frequency
Responsibility
Reporting
How is data to
be obtained?
How often
will data be
measured?
Who will measure
the data and what
resources are
required?
How and to whom
will information be
reported?
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