

“This lesson was captured after expired ammunition began to stockpile in one UN peacekeeping mission. “We have learned that each military contingent or unit must have a trained, proficient Ammunition Technical Officer on-site,” recalled Colonel Stephanie Tutton, Head of the Policy and Doctrine Team in the Office of Military Affairs. Lessons learned are critical for Member States and the Secretariat to enhance the performance, mandate delivery, safety, and security of our peacekeepers to ensure that innovation and good practices are captured, analyzed and, when deemed relevant, incorporated into policies and training modules. The Deployment Review App is a knowledge-sharing toolkit designed to help Member States, training centres, and national institutions to establish and develop their own lessons learned processes, facilitating the exchange of useful information among deployed personnel. So, the Light Coordination Mechanism partnered with the Capacity Development and Operational Training Services in the Department of Operational Support to create an app that would allow the methodology to be accessible to anyone, at anytime, anywhere – all at the touch of a button. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted issues in accessing the original document.

Troop- and police-contributing countries are now able to easily develop lessons learned in the field to improve operational readiness thanks to a new UN mobile application.Ī methodology was developed by the Light Coordination Mechanism with 16 Member States, some of whom co-financed the project alongside the Department of Peace Operations.
