CT PUBLIC SPACES
EU project for the protection of public spaces.

“There cannot be sustainable development without peace and security, and without development and poverty eradication there will be no sustainable peace.”
European Security Strategy. 2003‍

“Security is an issue that affects everyone. All government bodies, businesses, social organisations, institutions and citizens must fulfil their own responsibilities in order to make our societies more secure.”
 ‍European Security Strategy. 2020

THE CT PUBLIC SPACES PROJECT

In 2019, the European Commission launched a project to protect public spaces. This project is funded by the EU, managed by the European Commission’s Service for Foreign Policy Instruments (FPI), and implemented by the Spanish Guardia Civil and coordinated by the International and Ibero-American Foundation for Administration and Public Policies (FIIAPP F.S.P.).

The general aim of the project is to prevent and reduce terrorist attacks and their impact in public spaces.


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Likewise, it is to collaborate with partner countries (Ghana, Kenya and Senegal) to protect possible targets, including:

OPEN PUBLIC SPACES

with a large influx of people: shopping centres, tourist attractions, etc.

LARGE-SCALE EVENTS

such as sports,religious, festivals, etc.

infraestructures

such as airports, ports, stations etc.

The results expected from the project to protect public spaces are the following:
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‍COOPERATION

with national authorities to increase awareness and capability to protect people and goods at these sites.

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‍COLLABORATION

with law enforcement in partner countries to improve command and control systems, risk assessment, tactics, techniques and procedures for protection, reaction to and recovery from potential attacks.

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‍create opportunities

for public sector cooperation with local venue operators and private security.

EUROPEAN UNION INITIATIVES
“The European Union (EU) works with its partners to promote peace, stability and security, as well as sustainable growth and social and human development.”

The "CT Public Spaces" project supports the strengthening of security in partner countries, helping to achieve the necessary level for lasting and sustainable economic and social development.

The European Commission drafted an Action Plan in October 2017 to better protect public spaces from terrorist attacks. Under the plan, the EU High Risk Security Network (EU HRSN) was launched in November 2017, to gather counterterrorism police units in EU member states in the fight against a new terrorist threat.

These initiatives are intended to respond to one of the EU's security priorities, which is to improve and strengthen the protection of public spaces with large groups of people and other sensitive objectives.

The EU Global Strategy identifies capability development, and collaboration for its improvement, in third countries as a key priority, even more so in a challenging security environment where hybrid threats are on the rise.

1.1   ORIGIN OF THE NEXUS BETWEEN SECURITY AND DEVELOPMENT
In 2015, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) carried out an analysis that revealed coverage of amere 55% of the global need for funds to address these crises.

To fill the financial gap, some of the largest humanitarian aid donors that aimed not only to close the financial gap but to make humanitarian aid more efficient and effective. The process, known as “Grand Bargain”, led to a rethinking of humanitarian foundations.  

At the first World Humanitarian Summit, Istanbul 2016, the importance of the link between peace and security was stressed, as well as “the need to safeguard the lives of civilians in armed conflicts.”

It then declared that "sustainable peace"should be considered "the third side of the triangle"of the nexus (humanitarian action, development cooperation and peace/security).

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