Exploratory Options on Using Financial Incentives to Increase the Percentage of Military Women in UN Peacekeeping Missions
Categories: Peace Support Operations
Sub-Categories: Peacekeeping
Region: No Region
Year: 2015
Citation: UN Women. Exploratory Options on Using Financial Incentives to Increase the Percentage of Military Women in UN Peacekeeping Missions. UN Women, 2015.
Sub-Categories: Peacekeeping
Region: No Region
Year: 2015
Citation: UN Women. Exploratory Options on Using Financial Incentives to Increase the Percentage of Military Women in UN Peacekeeping Missions. UN Women, 2015.
Executive Summary
An extremely low number of female military personnel are deployed in current peacekeeping missions. One of the most cited reasons for this low number is that the percentage of women in the national militaries of some of the largest troop-contributing countries (TCCs) is itself very low. In search of ways to boost women’s participation in the military contingents of UN peacekeeping missions, the option of financial incentives is rarely put forth. In UN peace operations, member states pay their uniformed personnel and the UN reimburses them at a rate established by consensus in the 5th committee. This policy brief explores potential financial incentives to implore TCC’s to recruit and deploy more women to UN missions.