FACEBOOK: United Nations Police Division Female Global Effort

Company Overview:
The Global Effort was launched on the first anniversary of Security Council Resolution 1820 on Women, Peace and Security on 7 August 2009.

One year later the percentage of female police peacekeepers has increased from 8 percent to 9 percent.

Police Contributing Countries have taken the Global Effort to heart and several countries, including Bangladesh, Sweden and Uganda have publicly endorsed its goals.

The Liberian National Police has adopted the goals of the Global Effort for its own... (read more)

Mission:

The Global Effort encourages Police Contributing Countries (PCCs):
- to work with domestic training programmes to facilitate access of women to domestic police services;
- to establish a policy that sets the percentage of their contribution of female police officers to peacekeeping on a par with their national police gender ratio;
- to review their recruitment requirements and procedures for international deployment to ensure that female candidates are not restricted nor discouraged from applying; and
- to consider providing incentives for officers who serve in peacekeeping missions.

“We need more police women to efficiently do our policing work! Female police peacekeepers bring diverse skills to peacekeeping and act as role models to encourage women to join their police service showing that women need not be victims only but have a role to play in the security of their communities.” Commissioner Ann-Marie Orler, UN Police Adviser