UN Security Council
2018

percentage of women military and police in deployments to MONUSCO, highlights that undeclared national caveats, lack of effective command and control, refusal to obey orders, failure to respond to attacks on civilians, and inadequate equipment and information may adversely affect effective mandate implementation, stressing that any national caveat that negatively affects the implementation of mandate effectiveness should not be accepted by the Secretary-General; 52. Recognizes that the effective implementation of MONUSCO mandate is a shared responsibility and is contingent upon several critical factors, including well defined, realistic, and achievable mandates; political will, leadership, performance and accountability at all levels; adequate resources; policy, plan ning and operational guidelines and training; further recognizes that measuring and monitoring peacekeeping performance should be based on comprehensive and objective policy with clear and well defined benchmarks; and, in this regard, welcomes the initiatives undertaken by the Secretary-General to standardize a culture of performance in UN peacekeeping that operationalizes the Operational Readiness Assurance and Performance Improvement Policy, and conducts mission performance reviews of troop and police contingent performance, and leverages the Peacekeeping