Justice and Security Institutions

These guidelines provide supplementary examples and advice for programmes implementing the DCED Standard in conflict affected environments. They outline the challenges that programmes may face when implementing each of the eight elements of the Standard, and give practice guidance for results measurement in these contexts. ...

A security and justice reform (SSR) process will at times lead to a discussion on the need to change the roles and responsibilities of different actors and institutions involved in the provision, management or oversight of security and justice services....

This is the fourth OGN in the assessment series. It covers the process of finalising and integrating the recommendations of the assessment and serves to a) provide the link between the assessment and subsequent justice and security donor support activities, and b) ensure that the lessons learned during the assessment process can be used constructively in the future....

This is the third OGN in the assessment series. It covers issues to be taken into account when conducting an assessment. The approach should not be prescribed, but developed in line with the specific context and purpose of each assessment....

Defense Sector Assessment Rating Tool (DSART), by the RAND Corporation, consists of six assessments to qualitatively and quantitatively determine the state of a country’s defense sector, its institutions and processes, and its capacity to carry out operations for counterterrorism and counterinsurgency, counternarcotics, border and maritime security, counterpiracy, and postconflict stabilization. ...

This manual complements ISSAT’s Introductory Level 1 Security Sector Reform Training Course. It aims to provide a basic overview of Security Sector Reform (SSR) policy and practice based on collective experience in supporting security  and justice reform efforts.  This manual provides an overview of the theoretical background and key practical insights needed to engage in SSR programming, setting out the main principles but also highlighting various challenges that could arise when engaging in SSR....

Since the 1990s, internationally-supported peacebuilding interventions have become increasingly prominent. Activities focusing on rule of law and security institutions are a key component of this agenda. Despite increasing calls for more rigorous analysis of the impact of peacebuilding interventions, conceptual advances have been limited....

Armed conflict is a gendered process. Women and men experience conflict and are vulnerable to its impacts in different ways, determined by the gender roles and identities of masculinity and femininity in each particular society....

This Issue of Accord draws on multiple perspectives from across societies in both countries to explore comparative lessons and examine progress, building on analysis and recommendations from previous Accord publications on Liberia (Issue 1: 1996) and Sierra Leone (Issue 9: 2000) [see BOX 1]....

This glossary defines and discusses 20 core terms related to conflict transformation in the work of the Berghof Foundation. ...

This report brings together the results of a research project on the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of security system reform (SSR) programmes. It focuses particularly on donor-supported SSR programmes, but with reference throughout to local ownership of and capacity for M&E activities. ...

This module contains guidance on why and how to work with the police, military and other security sector actors to prevent and respond to violence against women and girls. It aims to: summarize available knowledge globally on the role of and effective practices for engaging the police, military and other security actors in addressing gender-based violence; support the implementation of initiatives that work with the police and military to improve their responses to violence, including by making available leading resources; and promote ongoing learning and knowledge-sharing on how to work with the police and military to eliminate abuses against women and girls. ...

This report proposes a new, evidence-based police measurement system called PRIME (Police Reform Indicators and Measurement Evaluation). PRIME is a forward-looking diagnostic tool that will give UNPOL and the donor community a more comprehensive and systematic way to assess police reform outcomes in postconflict environments....

The handbook is the result of a two-year consultative process — it has been designed by and forinternational actors working to address insecurity and to support access to justice. This process hasbrought the development community together with their security and diplomatic colleagues to ensurethat the handbook incorporates knowledge on the political, governance and technical nature of SSR.It is based on experience gathered, from countries that have undertaken security and justice reformsand the international community, on conflict prevention and peacebuilding over the past decadethroughout the developing world. ...

This paper responds to a request from the U.S Chapter of Transparency International’s ad hoc working group on the judicial integrity. The author has been asked to develop a checklist for evaluating the transparency and related aspects of judicial performance, suggest how it might be applied, and discuss its use to promote judicial reform. ...

This is a first draft of an effort to measure the quality of a legal system. It is in two parts. The first asks how well the system as whole is performing four key functions: the deterrence of wrongful conduct, the facilitation of voluntary transactions, the resolution of private disputes, and the redress of governmental abuses of power....

The findings from this manual will assist in identifying legal and judicial reform needs and areas where further diagnosis may be warranted. ...

This guide is written for programme managers responsible for improving the delivery of safety, security, and access to justice in any part of the world. It should also be useful to a wide variety of government officials and to anyone interested in pursuing a disciplined course of institutional reform in the safety and justice sector. ...

This is a first draft of an effort to measure the quality of a legal system. It is in two parts. The first asks how well the system as a whole is performing four key functions: the deterrence of wrongful conduct, the facilitation of voluntary transactions, the resolution of private disputes, and the redress of governmental abuses of power. The second part attempts to assess how well the key institutions of the judicial system – the courts, the private bar, and the public prosecutors – are working. ...

Until the recent emphasis on results management, monitoring of judicial reforms was conspicuous by its near absence. When it was done, the emphasis was on tracking inputs or outputs delivered, not the impact on overall goals and objectives....