Money matters : addressing the financial sustainability of security sector reform /

Money matters : addressing the financial sustainability of security sector reform /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Keane, Rory, active 1995, author.
Imprint:	London : Ubiquity Press, 2018.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	SSR paper ; 11 SSR paper (Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces) ; 11.
Subject:	United Nations -- Finance. United Nations. Security sector -- Finance. Finance.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11718570

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Other authors / contributors:	Ommundsen, Thorodd, author.
ISBN:	9781911529385 1911529382
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references. PDF (JSTOR, viewed October 29, 2018).
Summary:	"Although the financial sustainability of United Nations (UN) support to institutional capacity building in post-conflict contexts may be the least analysed topic on the peacebuilding agenda, understanding the costs of rebuilding and maintaining the security sector should be one of the most important priorities for security sector reform (SSR) practitioners today. Through innovative partnerships between the UN and the World Bank, a new and important practice area in public financial management of the security sector is beginning to take shape. This paper traces the new demands placed on peacekeeping operations to? 'get more bang for every peacekeeping buck', and explores how to match SSR priorities and recurring costs in the security sector with available resources over the long term. In presenting the lessons learned from the security sector public expenditure review conducted by the UN and the World Bank in Liberia in 2012, the first such review jointly undertaken by the two organizations, the paper seeks to illustrate how the discussion on right-sizing of the security sector can go hand in hand with a discussion on right-financing in order to help prioritize key reforms pragmatically in light of the available fiscal space. Specifically, the paper provides SSR practitioners with insights into the challenges often encountered when assisting national authorities to address the political economy of SSR, and how to navigate those dilemmas."--

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Financial sustainability in SSR support
Security sector public expenditure reviews
SSPERs in practice : the case of Liberia
Lessons learned for SSR practitioners
Conclusion.