About GFN-SSR

What we do

GFN-SSR offers a variety of services including:

• Information Sharing and Knowledge Management: through the website and newsletter
• Networking: enabling local voices to be heard in international policymaking
• Research: through responding to rapid research requests and the managing of larger-scale research projects
  
  

Information Sharing

• GFN-SSR aims to be a comprehensive information resource on SSR, providing access to key documents and latest thinking in the field through our continuously updated Document Library. This is regularly reviewed to maintain the quality of documents and to ensure a balance between academic and practical materials.
• Topic Guides provide an overview of specific SSR themes, linking them to key literature in their respective areas. They aim to present information in a concise, relevant and easily accessible manner targeted at policymakers.
• ssrbulletin is GFN-SSR's monthly e-newsletter used to disseminate information on developments in the SSR field, relevant policy news, events, conferences and training courses.
• A regularly updated Organisations Directory listing NGOs, think-tanks, advocacy groups, donor agencies and international organisations involved in SSR-related activities around the world.
  
  

Networking

• GFN-SSR facilitates information flow from practitioners, academics and policymakers in the Global South to the UK Government, other bilateral actors and multilateral institutions in order to influence policymaking and programming, enabling them to reflect the needs and views from the ground.
• GFN-SSR aims to maintain a watch on developments in security and justice sector reform policy, analysis and practice, and to disseminate information to network members.

Research

• GFN-SSR runs a Research Helpdesk. This is a demand-responsive service providing two days of desk-based research to investigate specific research questions. We synthesise the key issues, identify relevant literature and gather comments from academics and practitioners. Please note that the helpdesk service is charged at fixed daily rates. Please contact us for information on costs.
• Larger-scale research projects can also be commissioned and will be delivered either in-house or in collaboration with external researchers on an ad hoc basis.