Rio de Janeiro (RJ) - On 30 March, the course on Supporting Humanitarian Action in Responding to Emergencies and Disasters - SHARED - was carried on. The students studied issues on the components of humanitarian actions, international laws, the functioning of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee, the cycle of the Humanitarian Program and complex emergencies.

Rio de Janeiro (RJ) - On 29 March, the course on Supporting Humanitarian Actions in Response to Emergencies and Disasters (SHARED) started out. It is delivered by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - OCHA, in partnership with the Brazilian Ministry of Defense.

Rio de Janeiro (RJ) - The ceremony to award the certificates, carried out on March 24, represented the end of the first 2016 Military Translators and Interpreters Course (ETIMIL, acronym in Portuguese).

Over the week, officers and NCOs from the Brazilian Army and an officer from the Brazilian Navy received several instructions and training, amongst which there were: stress management, technical translation and simultaneous and consecutive interpretations.

From March 13 to 18, CCOPAB carried out the reconnaissance in the city of Cristalina, GO, aiming at the preparation of the next Brazilian Contingent to be deployed in Haiti. The work consists of collecting data and logistical support for the planning and execution of the UN Pre-deployment Advanced Field Exercise which will take place in that city in April.

On March 18th, CCOPAB received the certificate from the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations concerning the preparation of United Nations Police which is included in the Experts on Mission Course (EPMP, acronym in Portuguese). The certificate, the fourth received by CCOPAB, was awarded in the Ministry of Defense by the Chief of the Armed Forces Joint Staff, Admiral Ademir Sobrinho to the CCOPAB Commander Colonel Carlos Augusto Ramires Teixeira.

From March 14 to 19, in the city of Bruehl, Germany, there was the pilot course to revise the United Nations Core Pre-Deployment Training Materials (CPTM). The goal of the course was to familiarize peace operations' instructors from Member States with the revised material, to test and validate the content.