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Implementation Framework for Security System Reform
The OECD's Development Assistance Committee work on establishing an overarching policy framework for security system reform is widely recognized as the international point of reference in this field and in particular, the DAC Guidelines on Security System Reform and Governance agreed by Development Ministers and Agency Heads in 2004, continues to be used by development agencies in formulating their policy to support engagement in SSR activities.
Current work by the DAC Network on Conflict, Peace and Development Co-operation (CPDC) has been focused on developing operational guidance to translate the DAC policy work on SSR into tangible impact at field level. The draft Implementation Framework for Security System Reform (IF-SSR) has been developed following a two-year consultative process with field-based SSR practitioners and policy makers from bi-lateral donors, UN agencies and partner countries. The process brought together the development community with their military, intelligence, police, prisons, civil society, judicial and customs services colleagues to ensure that the IF-SSR incorporates knowledge on the political and technical nature of SSR and to build the necessary linkages across the security system.
Against the
background provided above ASSN members were requested to participate and
support the process in both the first and second phases. The first phase
entailed a workshop held at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping
Centre (KAIPTC) in
The second phase comprised the transformation of the considerably
theoretical report that emerged from the first phase into a focused and
practical SSR guide. This implied the
development of the document that would result in the
SSR Handbook on Security System
Reform: Supporting Security and Justice. This phase saw the
participation of the ASSN Chair, Professor Eboe Hutchful, in the
Critical Review Panel that was responsible for providing advice and
support to the overall process and included the participation of Anícia
Lalá as a lead expert in the drafting and reviewing of the chapter on
Civil Society.
Finally, the ASSN meeting on ‘Developing an African SSR Strategy’ held
in Addis Ababa in October 2007 served as platform for the official
launch of the SSR Handbook on
Security System Reform: Supporting Security and Justice in Africa.
SSR Practitioners’
Workshop Report: Towards Developing an Implementation Framework for
Security System Reform (IF-SSR)
SSR Handbook on Security System Reform: Supporting Security and
Justice’