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| Republic of Liberia and Republic of Sierra Leone Set-up and operation of generator workshops for UN peace-keeping missions |
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| eriod: | 09/2002 – 03/2007 | ||
| Employer: | Technisches Hilfswerk (THW, German Federal Agency for Technical Relief) on behalf of German Foreign Office (Auswärtiges Amt, Peacekeeping and Peacemaking measures), UNAMSIL and UNMIL | ||
| Description: | After civil wars in Liberia (1989 – 2003) and Sierra Leone (1991 – 2002) the UN Security Council approved peacekeeping missions for each country. In Sierra Leone THW set a workshop up to maintain and repair all generators (approximately 750) of UNAMSIL. THW operated the workshop since end of 2001 and ran the workshop until the downsize of the mission at the end of 2005. In Liberia THW conducted a first fact-finding mission at the end of 2003 and set-up the workshop after a profound fact-finding mission in mid-2004 in the beginning of 2005. THW, with its generator workshop was responsible for more than 900 generators from 2005 until end of 2007. In both countries THW conducted training measures to local mechanics to support the local staff after the end of the projects. |
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| Services provided: | - Fact-finding missions incl. project identification - Feasibility study - Project proposals - Operation of workshops - Development and conduction of capacity development measures - Management of funds - Backstopping |
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