Security Sector Institution Building Toolkit

Source: USAID | Year: 2017

Institutions and their capacities drive a sector’s performance. USAID’s extensive experience in institutional reform across sectors from health to education to governance is regularly applied in security sector reform, particularly its rule of law components. USAID’s comprehensive approach to institution building is captured in the Human and Institutional Capacity Development (HICD) Handbook.1 USAID has applied this experience specifically in its security sector programming. From a USAID perspective, security sector reform (SSR) is an umbrella term that includes integrated activities in support of defense and armed forces reform; civilian management and oversight; justice and the penal system; police and public safety; corrections, detention facilities and due process; intelligence reform; national security planning and strategy support; border management; disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR); and reduction of armed violence including small arms/light weapons (SALW) proliferation.

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