ENTRi - Europe's New Training Initiative for Civilian Crisis Management

The objective of "Europe’s New Training Initiative for Civilian Crisis Management" (ENTRi), is to prepare and train up to 800 individuals who are either going to, or already working in, crisis management missions worldwide, including those of the EU, UN, OSCE and African Union (AU). The aim is to bring about harmonisation and standardisation of training to ensure greater compatibility between European and other crisis management missions.

Context

ENTRi is a 2.5 million Euro capacity-building programme that is funded by the EU’s Instrument for Stability (80%) and by its implementing partners. The Foreign Policy Instruments Service, a service of the European Commission co-located with the EEAS, is guiding ENTRi. ZIF is the lead implementing partner of a consortium implementing this initiative. An overview of all partners is provided on ENTRi's website.

What are we offering?

ENTRi consists of four main building blocks. The first consists of courses. Within a two-year period we are offering a range of 34 pre-deployment and specialisation courses free of charge to a vibrant mix of participants from all over the world. This is to ensure that participants will be able to learn from their peers - civilians, including police officers - and some representatives of the armed forces. Participants will also be flown into the courses from within existing crisis management missions to build a bridge between the theoretical content of modules to the specific country context. Courses will differ in length but will last between 4-11 days.

The second building block is the certification of courses to standardise the overall quality of courses provided within European training institutes. This certification process builds on previous practice in similar frameworks and focuses on course content as much as on training methodology.

A third building block of ENTRi is the assessment of lessons learned and the sharing of good practice which will be presented, compared, and discussed by EU/UN/OSCE and other stakeholders during an ENTRi workshop in early 2012.

Finally, a Deployment Manual will be compiled from the various guidelines used by international organisations involved in this field.

Further information on the initiative can be found under www.entriforccm.eu.