The coordination between the Moroccan Armed Forces and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is still ongoing in order to try to respond to the various security challenges in the Mediterranean region in particular, through the continuation of bilateral exercises that include practicing security interventions at different levels.
After previously training about 25 officers of the Royal Armed Forces in the handling and dismantling of IEDs, military experts representing NATO’s Joint Forces Command Naples (JFC Naples) organized a training course for the Moroccan side on the application of gender in military operations from April 22 to 24 in Salé.
The three-day program sought to provide an overview of NATO’s international women, peace and security frameworks and the implementation of gender in military operations, especially those related to counter-terrorism and disarmament, demobilization and reconciliation, according to newly released data from NATO’s Combined Forces Command.
The Royal Armed Forces, according to the same source, presented a briefing on the National Action Plan on Women in Peace and Security Missions and their contribution at the level of UN peacekeeping missions in order to develop a mutual understanding to operationalize the WPS agenda in Morocco, while the training period included an exercise on the implementation of gender in various military operations.
Coordinators of the three-day training included the Joint Commission’s GINAD team in Naples, J9’s gender coordinator, and a representative of the NATO mission to Iraq, who supported the online lectures and discussions during the training period.
Regarding the conclusions of the training days, the NATO team’s report showed that the training on strengthening gender in military operations resulted in a successful proof of concept for 23 graduates from the Royal Armed Forces, who participated with 11 men and 12 women of all ranks.
The training, which specialized in gender in military operations, developed a core training tool that can advance NATO’s Women, Peace and Security Agenda, which can be drawn upon worldwide with partners and allies to support NATO’s priorities with a 2030 time horizon, according to the source.
The NATO committee’s report praised Morocco as “a key strategic partner of NATO and a key member of the Mediterranean Dialogue, contributing to security and stability in the wider Mediterranean region and promoting good relations and understanding between participating countries and NATO allies.”
He also noted that this training comes “within the framework of the expansion by the Joint Commission in Naples of partnership engagements aimed at strengthening security cooperation, especially with regard to the gender perspective that remains essential for security and defense, which would enhance the position of women in peace and the defense sector.”
This training period was preceded by another period in which military experts from the Allied Joint Forces Command in Naples trained 25 Royal Armed Forces officers on how to deal with and defuse explosives and IEDs through case studies, exercises and scenarios of field interventions in the Kingdom.
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