Joint AMISOM/SNA CIMIC Training
12-16 May 2019


Aim.  Provide participants with the knowledge, understanding, skills and tools required to conduct CIMIC operations in support of stabilization activity as part of AMISOM and the SNA.

Training objectives.  By the end of the course, participants will have achieved the following training objectives: 
  • Understand stabilisation operations in the context of Somalia.
  •  Understand role and functions of CIMIC in support of Operations in Somalia.
  •  Use CIMIC assessment and planning tools to plan and conduct CIMIC activity.
  •  Apply key human rights and gender principles.
  •  Build relations with communities to enable military activity.
  •  Build relations and mutual understanding between AMISOM and SNA CIMIC.

Click on the links below to download the presentations given during the conference:

CIMIC Patrol vs. Patrols doing CIMIC

Key Leader Engagement

AMISOM Quick Impact Projects
video​

​Examples of
Quick Impact Projects

ASCOPE/PMESII

CIMIC Reporting

​J9 CIMIC Officers'
Roles and Responsibilities 

SGBV/CRSV

CRSV video​

Stabilization

Protection of Civilians
PoC video
​Child Protection video
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Protection of Civilians (PoC) Resources​The Protection of Civilians (PoC) Military Reference Guide is a revision of the 2013 version published by the U.S. Army Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute. This version
incorporates a modified framework and task set to be compatible with the “Understand-ShapeProtect” approach in recent U.S. military doctrine on PoC. The revision adds annexes on UN and NATO approaches to PoC and provides suggestions for adapting the guide to these contexts. Other
new annexes provide suggestions for conducting training on PoC to include an extensive annex with training scenarios.

The PoC Military Reference Guide is primarily intended for military commanders and staffs who must consider PoC during armed conflict, multidimensional peace operations, or other military operations, particularly when PoC is an operational or strategic objective. It is designed as a supplement to existing doctrine and other relevant guidance so that military forces can meet their obligations to protect civilians. The reference guide may also be used as a textbook for PoC training.​​
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EIUC - Gender-based violence in the context of migration


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