Trainer describes gender integration and community outreach in peacekeeping operations

A speaker described conducting trainings for military personnel on incorporating gender considerations into peacekeeping operations and carrying out community outreach that included medical teams to educate on harmful cultural practices such as female genital mutilation and early marriage. The speaker said they worked with local women, children and men during those engagements and with a gender cell and a gender-based violence adviser identified as part of an OnPo unit. The remarks were delivered as a first-person account of past training and engagement activities; no formal vote or policy decision was recorded in the transcript provided.

The speaker said they had "conducted trainings to all the military personnel in UNICEFAR on incorporating gender into peacekeeping operations" and that they "had interactions with the community, women and children and even men of the community, where we had a team of medical personnel to join us to conduct education on the effect of harmful cultural practices such as female genital mutilation and early marriage." The speaker added that they also work with the community through the OnPo gender cell and an OnPo gender-based violence adviser. The transcript did not specify organizational details for "OnPo" or provide dates, locations, funding sources, or other documentation for the trainings. No formal action item, motion, or vote appears in the provided transcript.