Content_paragraphs:  In addition to protecting civilians at designated sites, UNMISS contributes to
  
  improved physical protection through the patrols of its military component. Mission
  
  officials and humanitarian actors agreed that integrated patrols were more beneficial
  
  than patrols carried out solely by the military component because they made it
  
  possible to engage with a greater number and wider variety of actors and could
  
  address more targeted issues. For those reasons, UNMISS has increasingly relied on
  
  integrated rather than purely military patrols.  Documentation provided to the review
  
  team and consultations with UNMISS officials and humanitarian actors indicate that
  
  most UNMISS patrols continue to be short-duration patrols carried out during
  
  daylight hours with a limited reach. However, UNMISS offic ials explained that the
  
  Mission had begun to adopt a hub-and-spoke operating model. That model relies on
  
  the creation of temporary bases over extended periods from which the Mission can 
  
  launch patrols to remoter areas that would otherwise be inaccessible. The Mission has
  
  also attempted to adopt an effects-based patrolling system to ensure that patrols have
  
  a clear purpose and the UNMISS Human Rights Division has built a closer
  
  relationship with the force to share information on identified hotspots and direc t
  
  
  
   
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  patrols to those hotspots. Moreover, it has become a regular practice for the force to
  
  conduct patrols that facilitate the movement of women into and out of the protection
  
  of civilians sites to reduce the potential for sexual and gender-based violence or
  
  conflict-related sexual violence while they are collecting firewood. Those are
  
  welcome efforts that appear to be having an initial, albeit still limited, impact on the
  
  quality of patrols.