Measures of Effectiveness MOE

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Asia Pacific Enhanced Peace Operations Capacity
Building Seminar
Measures of Effectiveness (MOE) in Peacekeeping
Operations (PKO)
Background Scenario and Seminar Overview
Honolulu, Hawaii 10 14 September 2007
Co-sponsored by
The Pacific Command of the United States and
The United Nations
Executed by the Center for Excellence in Disaster
Management Humanitarian Assistance
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Peacekeeping Operations Measures of Effectiveness
Why measure ?

• Nothing is more wasteful than doing with great
• efficiency, that which is totally
  unnecessary!

Will Kaydos
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Peacekeeping Operations Measures of Effectiveness
Why measure ?
Background Scenario

• 18 active peacekeeping missions
• Over 100 ,000 men and women deployed
• Planned deployment to Darfur will further
• increase total to 140,000
• 115 member states contributing to current PK
  missions
• Annual consolidated UN PK budget is 6 Billion
  

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Peacekeeping Operations Measures of Effectiveness
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Peacekeeping Operations Measures of Effectiveness
Why measure ?

• Child Protection
• JMAC
• Conduct and Discipline
• Security and Safety
• Mine Action
• UN Specialized Agencies
• and Programs
• Office of the SRSG

• Military
• Police
• Political Affairs
• Human Rights
• Humanitarian Affairs
• Rule of Law
• Electoral
• UN Civilian Admin

Are these components effective in the
conduct of their PK tasks and responsibilities ?
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Peacekeeping Operations Measures of Effectiveness
Why measure ?

• Stakeholders (read member states and
  especially donor countries)
• have higher expectations and demand
  accountability in the conduct
• of UN PKO
• The need to meet the challenges of addressing
  conflicts in a more
• complex and uncertain global environment
• Shorter response time to deal with threats to
  international security
• - 9 PK missions were launched in the past
  48 months
• - Within 8 weeks, 2 very different missions
  were planned
• and launched in Timor Leste and Lebanon

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Peacekeeping Operations Measures of Effectiveness
Measures/indicators of effective peacekeeping?

• the arrest of former Liberian president
  Charles Taylor and his arraignment in
• Sierra Leone, and then his transfer to The
  Hague, within an appropriate time frame
• the temporary deployment of an UNMIL troop
  contingent to reinforce the mission
• in Cote dIvoire during public disturbances
  in the capital early 2006
• the response, together with the EU force, to
  violence after the first round
• of elections in the DRC capital, Kinshasa
• most recently, the removal of more than 40,000
  cluster munitions in
• Southern Lebanon since the ceasefire in
  August 2006

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Peacekeeping Operations Measures of Effectiveness
Seminar Overview

• Administrative Brief
• Staff Introduction
• Aim of the Seminar
• Seminars Objectives
• Structure and Methodology
• Expected Products/Outputs
• Agenda
• Q A
• Participants Introduction

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Peacekeeping Operations Measures of Effectiveness
Administrative Brief
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Peacekeeping Operations Measures of Effectiveness
Staff Introduction

• Seminar Moderator
• - Mr. Johari Ramzan Ahmad
• Seminar Facilitators
• - Mr. Mike Morrison
• - Mr. Kevin Delmour
• - Mr. John Derick
• - Mr. Bobby Ray Gordon

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Aim of the Seminar

• To explore, discuss and develop suitable
  tools,
• techniques and methodology to measure the
• effectiveness of peacekeeping operations.

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Seminars Objectives

• To develop the tools and techniques for
  measuring the effectiveness
• of peacekeeping operations using components
  of the Stability
• Assessment Framework
• To discuss and identify Measures of
  Effectiveness of the various
• actors/components and processes in complex
  peacekeeping missions.
• To explore, discuss and develop universal
  Measures of Effectiveness
• that could be used by stakeholders and
  others to measure the
• effectiveness of any peacekeeping
  operations.

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Structure Methodology
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• Scene Setting in Plenary
• Moderator, SME briefs to entire group
• Clarifying questions

• Concluding Plenary
• Group out-briefs to moderator and SMEs.
• Group comments and discussions

• Working Groups
• Facilitated groups of 6-8 participants
• Note-taker to assist results compilation
• Internally-selected participant leader develops
  briefing of syndicate results with facilitator
  assistance

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Expected Products/Outputs

• Propose suitable tools, techniques and
  methodology to measure
• the effectiveness of PKO for further
  deliberations and scrutiny
• in future seminars
• Recommend the most appropriate Measures of
  Effectiveness for
• the various actors/components and processes
  in peacekeeping
• operations.
• Develop universal Measures of Effectiveness
  that could be used
• by stakeholders and others to measure the
  effectiveness of
• any peacekeeping operations

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Seminar Program
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Questions?
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Participants Introduction

• Name
• Organisation
• Brief job description
• Personal expectations
• Other relevant information (if any)