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 2012-2013 and Annual
Action Programme 2011)
• Title of this session (IfS Crisis Preparedness:
Lessons Learned 2007-2010)
• 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
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• 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
4,5
4
3,5
3
2,5
2
1,5
1
0,5
0
4,5
1,95
2007-2009 EUPFT
2011-2013 EUPST
EU Police Services Training
(EUPST)
• 4.5 M for 3 years: 2011-2013
• 2400 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?