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This guidance document has been produced by the European Centre of Excellence for Civilian Crisis Management (CoE). It is intended as a guide for Member States on how to set up a participatory process for the development of National Implementation Plans (NIP) for the Civilian CSDP Compact.

The CART is the regular systematic review of CSDP training to aid decision-makers in revision of the current policy and architecture. It provides a step-by-step overview of the foundational policy documents composing the training framework, the institutions making up the training architecture, and the implementation of training as provided by this architecture. The report finds several issues with the current training system, commonly that there is much that has been built up over time but with insufficient coordination and quality control.

This checklist has been produced by the European Centre of Excellence for Civilian Crisis Management (CoE). It is intended to guide Member States through the relevant steps in the preparation of their National Implementation Plan (NIP). The checklist is structured in the same way as the template provided by SecDefPol and should be read together with the accompanying SecDefPol explanatory note.

The Council Conclusions reiterate the Council’s commitment to building and strengthening the EU’s role as a global security provider through civilian CSDP missions. It calls on EU Member States and institutions to continue and expand capability development activities and outlines the EU’s commitment to operate in compliance with international law and further utilise strategic communication, modular and scalable approaches, and increased stakeholder contributions.

This document has been produced by the European Centre of Excellence for Civilian Crisis Management (CoE) and serves as a report from the CoE's Civilian CSDP Autumn Forum on the topic "Implementing deliverable number 3 under the Civilian CSDP Compact". It took place on 19/20 October 2023 at the Spanish Representation to the EU in Brussels, under the auspices of the Spanish Council Presidency. This report can be used by EU MS as well as the EEAS to inform their further discussion – and eventual decision-making – to what extent a scalable and modular approach shall be used to make civilian CSDP more agile, flexible, effective and efficient.

This SIPRI-policy paper reviews the first compact and how the new compact builds on the former. It highlights that the Member States did not deliver on their commitments in the first Compact regarding secondments while acknowledging the usefulness of the initiative. Three main commitments are discussed in this paper: increasing national contributions, raising the share of seconded personnel to 70% and promoting women’s representation. The paper concludes by making suggestions for the design of the review process of the new Compact. As a review, it is interesting for everybody who is working on secondment to civilian CSDP missions and on the implementation of a meaningful review process of the new Compact.

This document has been produced by the European Centre of Excellence for Civilian Crisis Management (CoE) prior to CoE's Civilian CSDP Autumn Forum that took place on 19/20 October 2023 at the Spanish Representation to the EU in Brussels, under the auspices of the Spanish Council Presidency. It was shared in advance with all registered participants to outline the scope of discussions at the Forum and provide information on its topic: The modular and scalable approach of deliverable #3 of the 2023 Civilian CSDP Compact.

This policy details a framework to identify and mitigate risks of violations of human rights and humanitarian law when security sector support is provided to third parties. The policy was required by the Strategic Compass and the Civilian CSDP Compact and defines guiding values and crosscutting principles as focusses of the due diligence process.

This report by the Gender Advisor of EUAM Ukraine reviews the implementation of the EEAS Strategy and Action Plan to enhance women’s participation and leadership in civilian CSDP missions. It finds that women's representation has stagnated in the range of 21-24 percent, and prescribes concrete actions to address this in leadership and human resources.

This EU report provides an overview of the progress made on each of the actions committed to in the Joint Communication of June 2023 on the climate and security nexus. In an itemised fashion, it reviews the actions of the original Joint Communication and proposes further actions to improve upon present achievements.