May 28, 2019 · GPOI activities additionally promote U.S. Women, Peace, and Security, or WPS, objectives and support United Nations targets to increase the number of deployed female peacekeepers. Assessments have demonstrated that the integration of females into peacekeeping units better enables those units to engage with local communities and …

Jan 14, 2021 · GPOI was launched in 2005 as the U.S. contribution to the G8 Action Plan for Expanding Global Capability for Peace Support Operations, adopted at the 2004 G8 Sea Island Summit. With a total budget of nearly $1.3 billion from Fiscal Years (FY) 2005-2020, GPOI funding accomplishes the following objectives:

Jun 12, 2018 · Media Note Office of the Spokesperson Washington, DC June 12, 2018 The Department of State’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs and the Department of Defense’s Office of the Secretary of Defense are co-hosting annual Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI) Worldwide Consultations at the State Department on June 11–15, 2018. Participants from the Department of State, Department of ...

The Peace Operations Capacity Building Division contributes to peace and stability in conflict and post-conflict zones across the globe by leading the two U.S. government security assistance programs focused on building international peacekeeping capacity: the Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI), and the African Peacekeeping Rapid ...

May 29, 2018 · Through GPOI, the United States is currently working with 53 nations, whose contributions make up 67 percent of military forces engaged in UN peacekeeping operations around the world. Since GPOI was created in 2005, the program has provided training, equipment, facilities, and advisory support to partners in building their ability to meet the ...

Dec 24, 2019 · GPOI’s 54 partner nations comprise the bulk of uniformed forces engaged in UN peacekeeping operations around the world. Through our program activities, GPOI assists partner countries to enhance their self-sufficiency in training for peacekeeping operations; and, so far, over half of our GPOI partners have achieved this objective.

May 29, 2020 · Since 2007, GPOI trained more than 10,000 women and facilitated the increased deployment of women peacekeepers. Since 2010, GPOI partner nations demonstrated our shared commitment to women, peace, and security by increasing the number of deployed female military peacekeepers by 117 percent, as compared with non-GPOI nations, who increased their ...

Apr 4, 2018 · GPOI is currently partnered with 53 nations, whose contributions make up 67 percent of military forces engaged in UN peacekeeping operations around the world. Since its creation in 2005, the GPOI program has provided training, equipment, facilities, and advisory support to partners in building their ability to meet the increasingly complex ...

Jan 14, 2021 · Through GPOI, the world’s largest peace operations capacity building program, the Department of State, in collaboration with our colleagues at DoD, works with 55 partner countries around the world to enhance international capacity to conduct UN and regional peace operations.

Apr 2, 2018 · GPOI programs promote lasting peace and security within vulnerable regions and reduce the need for the U.S. military to deploy in support of such missions. As Mike Smith of the State Department’s Political-Military Affairs Bureau said during his speech at the closing ceremony, the challenges peacekeepers face are difficult, but “there is no ...