What is CPAS?

• Strengthen Impact
  ‍CPAS enables the leadership of peacekeeping operations to take informed evidence-based decisions to enhance mandate implementation, which is designed to more rapidly de-escalate conflicts and improve the lives of millions of people living in these countries.CPAS provides missions with a methodology, supported by an IT platform, for conducting integrated and data-based assessments of the impact of their work. These assessments identify recommendations for where and how to adjust operations to an ever-evolving environment, with a view to strengthen mandate delivery. 
• Show Impact
  ‍Missions use CPAS data and analysis to show their impact more concretely to member states, host-country populations and governments, partners, think tanks and the general public through reporting and communications, thereby enhancing transparency and accountability, as well as the information basis for decision making in the intergovernmental bodies, especially the Security Council. 
• Centralize and leverage data, and build data capacity
  In line with the Digital Transformation of Peacekeeping and the Secretary General’s Data Strategy, CPAS helps to centralize and secure data from various sources. The CPAS IT Platform currently holds well over 80,000 data points, a number that constantly grows. CPAS allows missions to visualize this data in maps and graphs, showing trends over time and designed to support analysis, enhance reporting, highlight challenges and identify opportunities. Wherever possible, this data is gender disaggregated to facilitate analysis of how conflict dynamics affect different parts of a society, and how a peacekeeping operation’s interventions reach and impact them differently. With 1000+ personnel trained on CPAS to date, CPAS also helps to increase data skills and build a data culture across peacekeeping.

About

The CPAS System

Plan

how to Achieve mission objectives & impact

Guided by leadership, missions articulate a prioritized, whole-of-mission plan for mandate delivery that clearly links mission work to the impact the mission aims to have. Indicators are set to help monitor progress.

Perform

Plan implementation by mission components

Mission components and sections implement this prioritized plan, along with any additional work, tracking indicator data along the way.

Assess

Perforance analysis using data collected

Informed by the data collected, missions conduct regular impact assessments, analyzing collective progress towards goals and identifying recommendations for strengthening operations. These assessments are internal to the mission, but are used to inform planning and existing reporting.

Adust

UpdatE the plan & restart the cycle

Assessments are used to inform leadership decision-making and updates to the mission plan, restarting the cycle, and ensuring future operations are informed by past performance and impact.

CPAS solutions

01

Mission Leadership

- Helps prioritize and sequence complex mandates to operationalize their vision

- Enables evidence-based decision-making by bringing together data and analysis from mission staff

- Helps leaders allocate resources where they are most impactful

02

Mission Managers

- Lets managers develop integrated, cross-mission plans

- Facilitates evaluation of impact on the conflict environment and access to analysis from the ground

- Empowers managers to make recommendations to mission leadership on how to increase impact

03

Mission
Staff

- Empowers staff on the ground to help shape the mission’s strategic and operational plan

- Encourages closer collaboration between sections and components

- Empowers staff to make recommendations on how mission can be more effective

04

IOTs
‍

- Improves communication between HQ & the field on mission impact and context

- Assesses mission performance to adapt strategic and operational plans

- Promotes a more efficient and effective use of resources

05

Headquarters & Member States

- Improves visibility on impact of missions over time, backed by data and analysis

- Strengthens transparency and accountability for use of funds in peacekeeping

- Increases accountability to member states who access impact data from missions

- Improves peacekeeping impact assessment

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How we teach the CPAS system

Supporting civilian and uniformed integrated planning, strategic and operational data-based decision-making, and improving reporting to better show Force/Police impact​.

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