20th July, 2022: For over a decade, the Government of Norway has been a financial pillar to the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC), supporting the Centre’s strategic plan and vision “to become the leading and preferred International Centre for training, education and research that are focused on ensuring a peaceful and secure Africa”. To deal with the complex security challenges facing the West Africa region especially, and Africa as a whole, knowledge, skills and competencies are critical. Through the Norwegian funding support, thousands of civilian, police and military personnel have benefitted from several training courses that focus on conflict management, peace support operations and peace and security studies.
Over the years, Norway has sponsored several courses, some of which include the Election Observation Training Course, the Conflict Analysis and Mediation Course, the Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism Course, the Criminal Justice Course. Jointly, the courses have equipped participants to understand, diagnose and analyze conflicts more effectively using different tools and frameworks related to conflict analysis and mediation to enhance conflict prevention, management and resolution; enabled them to support processes to ‘fine tune’ the delivery of elections to strengthen democratic gains in Africa; and strengthened their understanding of the operations of criminal justice agencies and how they co-function to promote the ‘Rule of Law’, just to cite a few outcomes of the Norwegian Support to KAIPTC.
At KAIPTC, all the training courses are developed from research, and so there is strong nexus between research and training in order to ensure that all courses are relevant and meet the gaps and needs of peace and security actors. As part of its commitment to support KAIPTC to provide cutting edge research-led training, the Government of Norway funded a seven-country research mission to interrogate and gain deeper insights into emerging security complexities in West Africa. The mission visited countries like Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, Gambia, Mali, Nigeria and Niger and carried out research in the areas of elections and democracy, maritime security, agro-pastoralist conflicts, reintegration of ex-insurgents, violent extremism, jihadism and radicalization. The mission enabled KAIPTC to better understand the challenges faced by key actors in conflict prevention, conflict management and post-conflict reconstruction and development. More importantly, the rich knowledge and insights garnered from the research mission would feed into course reviews and, where relevant, lead to the development of new ones. Equally importantly, this knowledge resource would serve as policy recommendations to actors in peace and security, and through KAIPTC publications, contribute to disseminating knowledge on African peace and security.
Currently, Norway is KAIPTC’s only core funder, supporting both the operational and strategic objectives of the Centre. Indisputably, the Government of Norway has demonstrated its commitment to the institutional sustainability of the Centre and to the cause of a peaceful, secure and prosperous African continent.
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KAIPTC COVID-19 Special Guidelines for International Course Facilitators and Course Participants travelling to KAIPTC:
1. Kindly read the Ghana Government, the KAIPTC COVID-19 General and Special Guidelines for International travellers carefully and be advised accordingly (click here to read);
2. It is mandatory to upgrade your health insurance to cover expenses for possible COVID-19 quarantine and treatment.
3. The cost of the three (3) COVID-19 PCR tests up to a total of USD 450 – will be reimbursed for participants of sponsored KAIPTC courses. The tests comprise one before embarkation to Ghana, one at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) and the final test prior to departing Ghana. All receipts are required for reimbursements to be made.
4. Course participants accommodated at KAIPTC are required to stay on-site during the entire duration of the course.
5. Neither the Ghana Government, the Ghana Ministry of Defence, KAIPTC, the Course Sponsor nor the organising country, can be held responsible in any way for further costs arising out of a positive COVID-19 test or a COVID-19 infection.
FRANÇAIS
KAIPTC COVID-19 Directives spéciales pour les animateurs et les participants aux cours internationaux qui se rendent au KAIPTC :
1. Veuillez lire attentivement les directives générales et spéciales du KAIPTC COVID-19 à l’intention des voyageurs internationaux et en tenir compte (cliquez ici pour lire – uniquement en anglais) ;
2. Il est obligatoire d’améliorer votre assurance santé pour couvrir les frais d’une éventuelle quarantaine et d’un traitement COVID-19.
3. Le coût des trois (3) tests PCR COVID-19 – jusqu’à un total de 450 USD – sera remboursé aux participants des cours parrainés par le KAIPTC. Les tests comprennent un test avant l’embarquement pour le Ghana, un test à l’aéroport international de Kotoka (KIA) et le test final avant le départ du Ghana. Tous les reçus sont nécessaires pour effectuer les remboursements.
4. Les participants aux cours hébergés au KAIPTC sont tenus de rester sur place pendant toute la durée du cours.
5. Ni le gouvernement du Ghana, ni le ministère de la défense du Ghana, ni le KAIPTC, ni le sponsor du cours, ni le pays organisateur ne peuvent être tenus responsables de quelque manière que ce soit des coûts supplémentaires résultant d’un test COVID-19 positif ou d’une infection COVID-19.
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KAIPTC receives ear-marked and non-earmarked funding from its development partners. In some instances, it receives technical support on specific projects and programmes. The institution welcomes additional financial and technical support from development partners. Please contact the following persons/departments:
The Director,
Policy, Planning Monitoring and Evaluation.
Email: ooc.ppmed@kaiptc.org
Le KAIPTC reçoit des fonds affectés et non affectés de ses partenaires de développement. Tout soutien financier supplémentaire des partenaires de développement est la bienvenue. Veuillez contacter les personnes ou départements suivants:
La Directrice,
Département des politiques, de la planification, du suivi et de l’évaluation
Email: ooc.ppmed@kaiptc.org