Key Technical Resources
USAID OTI Lessons Learned Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Programming
Disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR) of ex-combatants is often a first step in the transition from war to peace. The overarching goal of DDR is to ensure stability and public security in a post-conflict environment – ideally as part of comprehensive security sector reform and development strategy – by eliminating the threat of former combatants derailing peace or recovery.
Labor Sector Assessment Guide
This Strategic Assessment Guide lays out the methodology recommended to conduct labor sector assessments, outlining the necessary steps to be undertaken prior to departure, while in the country, and upon return to home base; the various quantitative and qualitative data that should be solicited, and a range of questions that need to be probed while in the field and addressed in the assessment report. Approaches to the Country Labor Sector Assessments are elaborated, and an information checklist is included to guide the analysts to ensure adequate coverage while in the field.
Electoral Security Framework: Technical Guidance Handbook for Democracy and Governance Officers
The Framework is a diagnostic instrument that profiles electoral conflict for the development of program strategies and activities to prevent, manage or mediate this conflict.
Labor Sector Programming Handbook
This paper, and the larger project it introduces, deals with all of these definitions and issues through a focus on the “labor sector” and the role it plays in development. The labor sector is the arena in which youth as well as adult men and women prepare for and participate in the world of work. A focus on the labor sector matters because of its impact on people’s abilities to find decent work, realize sustainable livelihoods, and raise themselves and their families out of poverty.
Interagency Security Sector Reform Guide
This paper is designed to guide practitioners at the Department of State, DoD, and USAID in their implementation of current foreign assistance approaches to security and development. Forces enhanced through traditional security assistance comprised of equipment and training can better carry out their responsibilities if the institutional and governance frameworks necessary to sustain them are equally well-developed. Development assistance also benefits from being fully coordinated with security related assistance, as development is at risk without basic security. The increasingly complex threats facing our partners and our own nation urgently require that we address the linkages among security, governance, development, and conflict in more comprehensive and sustainable ways.
Reducing Corruption in the Judiciary
The linkages between poverty reduction, economic growth, and democratic governance are firmly established in current development thinking, backed by persuasive research. Equally well established the recognition by scholars, policy makers, and development practitioners of the central importance of the rule o law and the control of corruption successfully addressing the related challenges of social, economic and political development.
Improving Democracy Assistance : Building Knowledge through Evaluations and Research Report
This book, by the National Research Council, provides a roadmap to enable USAID and its partners to assess what works and what does not, both retrospectively and in the future through improved monitoring and evaluation methods and rebuilding USAID's internal capacity to build, absorb, and act on improved knowledge.
Deepening our Understanding of the Effects of US Foreign Assistance on Democracy Building
Does USAID’s democracy promotion program work?
Transition Elections and Political Processes in Reconstruction and Stabilization Operations: Lesson Learned
In the fast-paced environment of reconstruction and stabilization (R&S) operations, it is particularly challenging for U.S. officials to apply best practices and lessons from the past to the unique and sometimes centuries-old country conflicts they encounter. Faced with the high costs of sustaining peacekeeping operations and with the pressure to recognize a legitimate government for development resources to flow, this guide is intended to help USG planners to adapt their decisions intelligently to country circumstances, informed at the outset by several decades of USG best practices.
USAID Legal Empowerment of the Poor: From Concepts to Assessment
The relatively modest literature that bears an explicit “legal empowerment of the poor (LEP)” tag has developed since 2000. It came into being in reaction to what was seen as an excessively narrow concept of legal and judicial reform in the rule of law literature.1 A number of LEP strategies (law reform, judicial reform, legal aid and literacy, democratization, and formalization) are currently jockeying for position within the general concept, which is as yet poorly bounded and integrated.
Rebuilding the Rule of Law in Post-Conflict Environments
This guide provides practical guidance on rule of law programming in post-conflict environments. It reflects over twenty years of experience working in post-conflict environments, and presents the key challenges, lessons learned, and programming options for advancing rule of law development objectives in these environments. It is hoped that this guide will facilitate effective analysis, planning and programming that contribute to the strengthening of the rule of law in post-conflict societies.
Handbook on Legislative Strengthening
This handbook is intended to help USAID field staff make informed decisions with regard to legislative strengthening strategies. It outlines a framework for assessing the needs of legislative bodies and designing appropriate responses to those needs, and describes legislative strengthening work carried out by USAID and others.
Alternative Dispute Resolution Guide
This Guide is intended to provide an introduction to the broad range of systems that operate under the rubric of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR). It is designed to explore and clarify the potential uses and benefits of ADR and the conditions under which ADR programs can succeed.
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