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OECD/DAC Handbook on Security System Reform – Supporting Security and Justice
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The Global Facilitation Network for Security Sector Reform (GFN-SSR) works to build and facilitate networks of policy-makers, practitioners and civil society organisations involved in SSR. Security is a core aspect of the vulnerability of the poor. SSR aims to develop a secure environment based on development, rule of law, good governance and local ownership of security actors. GFN-SSR promotes these objectives by working with local actors through networks, capacity building and information sharing. For further information on GFN-SSR and the services provided, click here.
What is Security Sector Reform?
Security Sector Reform (SSR) as a concept can be confusing and is often misunderstood. To try and better understand what SSR is, please click here for a brief overview.
What's New?
The Tswalu Protocol |
The Tswalu Protocol articulates a consensus derived from the experience of a group of civilian and military professionals, academics, individual organisations, government departments and heads of state who have been at the epicentre of peacekeeping and peacebuilding missions. It is intended as a guide for the leaders of future international interventions. The Tswalu Protocol recognises the ad hoc nature of international responses to armed conflict and state failure. Instead of simply calling for more co-ordination, it offers a set of principles and guidelines that future peace-builders can use to help offset the inherent limitations of any multilateral operation. The full document is available in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Dari, Russian, Chinese, German, Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian and Japanese. |
Practical Tools for Mainstreaming |
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The Toolkit covers twelve aspects of SSR processes including defence reform, police reform, national security policy-making, justice reform, and border management. It also provides two ‘cross-cutting tools’ which examine gender training for security sector personnel and SSR assessment, monitoring, evaluation and gender. |
UNDP Hosts Consultative Meeting on the UNSG’s SSR Report |
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), with the generous support of Canada, convened a consultative meeting to discuss the United Nations Secretary-General’s Report on Security Sector Reform on 17-18 March 2008 in New York City. Participants from civil society organisations (CSOs) and think-tanks from various parts of the world and UNDP officials deliberated on the Report with the goal of eliciting their views regarding: (1) the basic principles that should guide a UN approach to SSR; (2) the potential normative and operational role of the UN in SSR; (3) the development of a coherent UN approach to SSR; (4) the establishment of effective partnerships for the provision of effective support and expertise, as well as adequate resources to national SSR processes; and (5) the identification of steps the UN should take to carry the UNSG’s SSR Report forward.
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Document Library
Girls in Fighting Forces: Moving Beyond Victimhood.. More
Security, the War on Terror and Official Development Assistance.. More
Latin America and the Caribbean: Domestic and Transnational Insecurity.. More
Topic Guides
Civil Society & Security: The term ‘civil society’ is generally understood to encompass areas of activity that take place outside of both the state and the market... More
Helpdesk Reports
Read previous reports from our research helpdesk here.
GFN-SSR has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with DCAF. This is supported by an annual workplan outlining particular activities for cooperation and areas for information exchange.
GFN-SSR works closely with our sister project, the GSDRC, which specialises in information and resources on specific governance and social development issues.
