Capacity building of EASBRICOM

The Police Adviser supports Eastern Africa Standby Brigade (EASBRIG)’s Police and Civilian dimensions, as relevant to the African Standby Force within African Union. The secondment is part of the Training for Peace in Africa programme, under which Norway supports African capacity building for training of Police and Civilian experts to peace keeping and peace building operations and tasks in Africa.

Terms of Reference outlines the Police Adviser's task more specifically:

• Developing, mentoring and assisting in the construction of EASBRIG ASF Civilian Police capacity within the regional ASF structure and specifically within EASBRIG components.

• Lead in the design, and support the implementation of the establishment of a Civilian Police component within EASBRIG including proposing the appropriate structures, job description for the Police element.

• Participation in and support to EASBRIG’s planning, coordination and execution of the Civilian Police component in the regional exercise (CPX) in late 2008, and other key training events such as the FTX exercise in December 2009.

• Contribution to and involvement in the development of integrated operational and strategic multidimensional planning processes in order to develop EASBRIG regional planning capacity.

• Advice to and assist in the development of EASBRIG Civilian Police policy development.

• Liaison with Norwegian counterparts on Civilian Police matters and act as the liaison between EASBRICOM and the relevant institutions in Norway. Act as TfP point of contact at EASBRICOM, and support overall TfP activity in Africa as appropriate..

• Liaison with IPSTC, other regional PSO training facilities, regional police organisations, TfP partners and others, to help develop regional Police PSO training capacity to support the EASBRIG Regional Training Plan.