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Leveraging Personnel and Training Information Management

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Dr. Felix Mutua, Ph.D.

AMANI - Data Management System on Roster and Training in Child protection in Armed conflict

Child Protection in Africa Union Peace Support Operations Knowledge & Learning EventDakar, Senegal

7-9 December 2015



THE STATE

How many PSO actors have you trained 2010 – 2015?

How many trainings have you provided?

Who have you trained?

Do you deploy for PSO missions? How do you select them?

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To develop an integrated profile, roster and

training management system to manage

needs for peace support operations

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OBJECTIVE



The Solution : AMANI

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PSO Personnel Profile Training Management System (TMS)

AMANI

AMANI

Roster



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Inception

June 2014

System Development

East Africa consultation Workshop

West Africa Consultation

April 2015

AMANI System

Deployment at RPA, EMP,

SCI

French Translation

Deployment

Progress

MaliCote

D’IvoireSenegal



PSO Personnel Profile

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Manages personnel profiles

Manage bio-data, education, experience

Free Institutionally defined fields

TMSShipped with AU profile template and you can add yours too

PSO Profile



PSO Personnel Profile - features

• No pre-defined fields (information sets can be added at

any given time)

• Independent of the TMS and roster components – can be

deployed on its own

• Dual – self registration or pre-registration by the systems

manager

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PSO Personnel Profile

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The Training Management system (TMS)

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Manages information on trainings

Trainee/trainer evaluation

Updates capacity status of experts

Roster TMS

PSO Profile

Shipped with SCI templates and you can add yours too



TMS

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TMS

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Roster

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Lists of persons on Rosters

Roster details – Name, period

Roster applications, opportunities

TMSPSO Profile

User-defined criteria for Roster selection

Roster



ECOWAS/AU

APSTA System

Web Portal

TCE 1 e.g.

RPA

TCE 2

TCE 3

EASF

SADC SF

IGAD

ECOWAS SF

DFC

TMS + Profile + ROSTERTMS + Profile

TMS TMS+ROSTER



Integration of actors

ECOWAS/AU

• Aggregates data from

ECOWAS/AU institutions

• Horizontal interoperability

• Profile, TMS and Roster

• Roster features – user-defined

criteria based on TMS and

profile

APSTA

• Aggregates data from TCEs

• Horizontal interoperability

• Profile, TMS

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Portal

• External – cloud hosted

• Provides info on available trainings

• News on deployment

• Generates summaries on trainings

– maps, tales charts

• Consumes limited data from APSTA

and ECOWAS/AU systems – online

or offline

Data Exchange between APSTA and ECOWAS/AU system inbuilt – Online or offline



The AMANI ResultsHow many PSO officers have beentrained on what aspects of child protection? – Portal

What competencies do we have on the roster?

What Geographic expertise do we have in which regions?

Do we have improvements on Management and reporting of child violations in PSO areas?

Roster

TMSPSO Profile



Consultation and validation workshops

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East Africa Workshop

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• Uganda Defence Forces, KDF

• Burundi Defence Force

• EASF

• Save the Children

• UNHCR, UNICEF, UNMISS

• SPLA

• CTGA (Somalia)

• IGAD, AU, other partnersAugust 18, 2014 : PANARI Hotel Nairobi



West Africa Consultations

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• Senegal Armed forces

• Cote D’Ivoire Armed

forces

• ECOLE DE MAINTIEN DE LA

PAIX (EMP) – Mali

• Mali Armed forces



• System successfully deployed

• PSO profile and TMS in use

• 3-days training provided on

• Installation and configuration

• System set up – Profile and TMS

• Profile management and registration

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Deployment – Rwanda Peace Academy (RPA)



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RPA – Custom profile



Deployment – SCI

• SCI – EARO

• Plans underway

• System to be used for SCI trainings in EA

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Deployment - Mali

• EMP– Mali

• System deployment planned for Dec-Jan

• French translation at advanced stages

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System requirements

• At least 4- CPU cores

• 8GB RAM – (depends on users 8GB ~100 users concurrent)

• 10GB HDD

• Linux (Ubuntu) optimal, IOS, Windows

• Web server : Apache Tomee

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Thank You.

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