To further the UN’s commitment to empower women and work towards gender equality in times of war and of peace,in 2006, the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery (UNDP/BCPR) and the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) commissioned a study of the UN’s experience in gender-sensitive police reform to capture best practices to contribute towards the development of minimum standards for policing policy and operations.