Content_paragraphs:  The UNMISS Political Affairs Division does not have political officers at the
  
  field office level to carry out subnational engagement directly. Instead, heads of field
  
  offices and civil affairs officers serve as political actors and are empowered to ensure
  
  that their activities have a political dimension. The review team assessed how this
  
  staffing arrangement affects the ability of the Mission to implement its political
  
  mandate and concluded that the arrangement could help field offices to avoid taking
  
  a siloed approach to political engagement and ensure that subnational efforts to
  
  promote dialogue and address violence are grounded in political analysis. However,
  
  for that system to work, heads of field offices and civil affairs officers need to
  
  embrace the idea that they are political actors. In its activities, the Civil Affairs
  
  Division needs to maintain a strong understanding of the political dimensions of
  
  violence and the actors involved, while heads of field offices need political strategies
  
  to address the range of issues that affect peace and stability in their areas of
  
  operations. Moreover, heads of field offices and civil affairs officers deployed at the
  
  field level need to be in regular engagement with the Political Affairs Division and
  
  
  
   
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  the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Political Affairs in
  
  Juba to align their political strategies. Much of that work also requires the application
  
  of a robust gender lens. The complete absence of women protection advisers in field
  
  locations and the limited number of gender officers deployed to the field makes this
  
  difficult, particularly given the overwhelming range of work with which gender
  
  affairs officers are tasked.
  
   
  
   4. Monitoring and investigating human rights violations