Examples of using Lessons learned unit in English and their translations into Arabic
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(b) The Lessons Learned Unit of the Department of Peace-keeping Operations, the UNDP Office of Evaluation and Strategic Planning and the Lessons Learned Unit of the Department of Humanitarian Affairs should collaborate on all assessments of multi-component
During the 12-month period from 1 July 1997 to 30 June 1998, the Lessons Learned Unit will undertake studies on UNAVEM I, II and III; on the United Nations Protection Force(UNPROFOR) and the United Nations Peace Forces(UNPF); and on UNMIH and the United Nations Support Mission in Haiti(UNSMIH).
Recommendation 10, Learning from experience in the transfer of responsibility to successor arrangements: As a matter of standard procedure, the Lessons Learned Unit of the Department of Peace-keeping Operations, in cooperation with the relevant institutions, should, within one year of the termination of a mission, review experience with the transfer of responsibility to successor arrangements.
In the light of the foregoing, the Secretary-General resubmits his request for the establishment of three new posts in the Lessons Learned Unit(one P-4, one P-2/1 and one General Service level) to be funded from the support account as originally proposed(see A/51/890).
In addition, the Lessons Learned Unit reviewed the implementation of lessons learned from peacekeeping operations; this study considered the extent to which lessons already derived from previous operations were being implemented in the field; case studies included Angola, Georgia and Sierra Leone.
As for training, his delegation requested the Secretariat to seek regular, predictable sources of financing for the Lessons Learned Unit of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, to keep Member States informed of its activities and to make available to them all studies carried out by the Unit as expeditiously as possible.
Mr. YEO(Peacekeeping Financing Division), introducing the report of the Secretary-General on the Lessons Learned Unit(A/51/965), recalled that the Secretary-General ' s proposals concerning the support account for peacekeeping operations, contained in document A/51/890, had included requests for approval of three new temporary posts for the lessons learned function.
Support account for peacekeeping operations: Lessons Learned Unit(A/51/965)).
The Policy Analysis and Lessons Learned Unit was renamed the Peacekeeping Best Practices Unit, remained in the Office of the Under-Secretary-General, given the cross-cutting nature of its functions, and was reinforced with 5 posts out of the 19 originally requested: four policy officers(three P-4 and one P-3) and a librarian(P-3).
Since a comprehensive approach to conflict prevention, peacekeeping and post-conflict peace-building is of growing importance, I wish to commend the Lessons Learned Unit of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations for the timely preparation of the suggested principles and mechanisms on cooperation between the United Nations and regional organizations in a peacekeeping environment, released last March.
The Department of Peacekeeping Operations has set up and the Department of Humanitarian Affairs is setting up a Lessons Learned Unit, while the Department of Political Affairs has instituted a policy of systematic end-of-mission debriefings of Special Representatives of the Secretary-General.
However, with respect to recommendation 7, the Committee did not intend by that action to prohibit the Lessons Learned Unit of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations from assessing experience with any mandated activities of completed peacekeeping missions(A/51/16, part I, para. 91).
His delegation believed that the Advisory Committee had overstepped its authority in recommending that the Lessons Learned Unit should be abolished; that unit performed a mandated activity of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations which was crucial for promoting and maintaining efficiency in such operations.
The Policy Analysis and Lessons Learned Unit has been transformed into the Peacekeeping Doctrine and Best Practices Unit, as reflected in the report of the Secretary-General on resource requirements for implementation of the report of the Panel on United Nations Peace Operations(A/55/507/Add.1).
A recent OIOS audit found that insufficient attention had been paid to lessons learned from past liquidations. The Lessons Learned Unit in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations deals with administrative aspects of missions only to the extent they effect the substantive work of the missions.
The triennial review of the in-depth evaluation of the start-up phase(E/AC.51/1998/4) concluded with seven follow-up recommendations, all of which were endorsed by CPC(A/53/16, Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-third Session, Supplement No. 16. part I, para. 252) on the understanding that the Lessons Learned Unit did not have the mandate to modify existing policies and procedures that require intergovernmental concurrence.
The Special Adviser and the Division for the Advancement of Women continue to support the Department of Peacekeeping Operations/Lessons Learned Unit in the implementation of the project on mainstreaming a gender perspective in multidimensional peacekeeping operations.4 After the launching of the project in June 1999, a consultant will join the Lessons Learned Unit in January 2000 to prepare a systematic gender analysis of selected peacekeeping operations.
An amount of $600,000 was provided in January 2001 for management consultants to evaluate the way in which the Organization plans, deploys, conducts and supports peacekeeping operations($300,000), and to supplement in-house knowledge in the development of policy documents within the Peacekeeping Best Practices Unit, formerly known as the Lessons Learned Unit($300,000).
Implementation of prior recommendations A Lessons Learned Unit was established in the Department of Peace-keeping Operations in April 1995 in response to recommendations 1 to 4 of the progress report on the in-depth evaluation of peace-keeping: start-up phase(E/AC.51/1994/3, paras. 8-10),
Lessons Learned Unit.