UN customised trainings
The International Peace and Development Training Centre (IPDTC) is recognised as one of the world’s leading training and professional development centres.
International recognition and engagement with UN missions & agencies
Established to provide core, advanced and executive leadership training for UN missions and staff, government leadership and officials, and national and international organisations and agencies working in the fields of peacebuilding, prevention, and post-war recovery and peace consolidation, IPDTC has provided trainings for more than 4000 practitioners, policy makers and professionals from over 70 countries around the world. More than 90% of IPDTC trainings are provide in the field-world-wide upon request from UN missions and agencies, national governments, and national and international organisations and agencies. Each of these programmes is tailor-made and customised for the exact needs, objectives and context of the requesting mission or agency – designed drawing upon a decade and a half of global experience to maximize practical impact and support missions in best achieving their mandate and objectives.
“Your training was the best I’ve ever been through. Your ability to customize your programme for our mission’s needs, making it highly practical and context-specific while drawing upon an incredible breadth of on-the-ground experience, real examples, practical simulations, and tools that can be used in the field made it the perfect programme for our mission.”
— UN Mission Staff, Political and Civil Affairs Department, UNFILProgrammes provided for UN staff, missions and agencies
IPDTC has provided training for nearly 400 UN staff through our core, advanced and executive leadership programmes at our training sites in Cluj-Napoca, Romania and London, UK on:
- Designing Peacebuilding Programmes
- Making Prevention Work (and Making Peacebuilding and Prevention Work)
- Making Peace Processes Work
- Implementing Effective Monitoring & Evaluation for Peace Support Operations
- Peacebuilding, Conflict Transformation and Post-War Recovery and Peace Consolidation
In addition, we have provided customised, on-request programmes for:
| Mission/Agency | Programme |
|---|---|
| UNAMID | Peace and Conflict Analysis, Conflict Management & Mediation |
| UNDP Country Team | Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation – Core Training |
| UNDP Lebanon | Building Core Skills in Peacebuilding, Designing for Impact and Monitoring, Evaluation & Improvement of Peacebuilding Programming |
| Crisis Prevention & Recovery | |
| Leadership Brief | |
| UNDP Nepal | Collaborative Leadership, Mediation and Governance |
| UNDP Romania | Mediation & Negotiation in Transition & Complex Crisis |
| UNFIL | Preventive Diplomacy and Mediation |
| UNMIL | Implementing Effective Monitoring and Evaluation in Mission Performance – Leadership Training |
| Implementing Effective Monitoring and Evaluation in Mission Performance – Core Staff Training | |
| Early Warning & Prevention |
And more than 300 additional programmes globally upon request.
Please note: IPDTC has received many requests from additional UN missions and agencies but has not always been able to service these requests because of high global demand for our programmes and trainers.
International recognition
IPDCT programmes are internationally recognised as amongst the best in the field globally. This is why we consistently receive high-level requests for trainings from governments, international organisations, and missions and agencies. This year PATRIR was awarded the 2017 Luxembourg Peace Prize, in large part in recognition for the significant contribution of IPDTC trainings to mediation and peace processes around the world. IPDTC provides recognised certification for programmes and has also had it’s trainings certified by international accreditation.For more information or to request a program for UN missions or agencies please contact us at: [email protected].