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class="node node-page node-full clearfix" about="/en/sharing-best-practice" typeof="foaf:Document"> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-name-field-lead-paragraph field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">As financial resources for environmental management are limited, both UN Peacekeeping and UN Operational Support try to ensure that their interventions are appropriate, effective and cost-efficient. This calls for good management and up-to-date knowledge of the impact that its work is having on the ground.</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" src="https://operationalsupport.un.org/sites/default/files/28208245046_31b6e2f11c_o_2_0.jpg" width="4256" height="2832" alt="" /><blockquote class="image-field-caption"> <p><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>AMISOM/Omar Abdisalan</strong></span>Staff of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) collect garbage during a beach clean-up exercise in Mogadishu.</p> </blockquote> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><h4>Community of Practice</h4> <p>Best practices and case studies from the field are shared with all missions through a dedicated Community of Practice and dedicated training. We also use resources from our partners like UNEP or the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI) and from any other Member States or organisations.</p> <p>For more information on current practices in our missions, please check the <a href="//operationalsupport.un.org/sites/default/files/2022_good_practices.pdf">latest Good Practice</a>聽on environmental management in the field, as well as see how聽missions in CAR, Mali and Cyprus are mainstreaming environment in their operations in this <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xrc6wrTrFk">video</a>.</p> <h4>Greening the Blue Helmets</h4> <p>The Department of Operational Support聽is an聽active member聽of the <a href="https://unemg.org/issue-management-groups/environmental-management">UN-wide working group on environmental sustainability management</a>, and we聽promote <a href="http://www.greeningtheblue.org/">Greening the Blue</a>, the official UN campaign to make for a more sustainable United Nations. We have also partnered with the <a href="https://www.unenvironment.org/">UN Environment Programme (UNEP)</a>聽to take advantage of their long-time expertise in relation to the field to help us <a href="http://www.un.org/en/peacekeeping/publications/UNEP_greening_blue_helmets.pdf">"greening the blue helmets"</a>.</p> <h4>International Days</h4> <p>Each year, a number of international days are set aside to promote environmental issues. 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