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Released: 2007
Pages: 52
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Enhancing Security and Justice Service Delivery
Without viable security and justice, the prospects for long-term development initiatives are bleak. The role that the reform of the security and justice system can play in conflict prone or conflict affected countries has been well established. The challenge, however, remains how to ensure short-term service delivery, while supporting the long-term goal of developing a functioning and sustainable security and justice system.
The reality in fragile states is that justice and security are delivered by a large number of actors, some of whom are state agencies and services, but the vast majority are likely to be non-state organisations and systems, which are often more legitimate, accountable, effective, and cost-efficient than state service providers. This provides a particular challenge for development agencies where supporting non-state providers of security and justice may expose donor countries and agencies to a degree of risk with which they are unaccustomed.
This study provides groundbreaking analysis of the challenges faced in security and justice service delivery. More importantly, it proposes an innovative solution for development agencies, engaging in supporting security and justice development. A multi-layered approach to security and justice programmes is a methodology that is highly context specific, targeting donor assistance to those providers -- state and non-state actors simultaneously -- at the multiple points at which actual day-to-day service delivery occurs. A multi-layered strategy recognises that unorthodox solutions and partnerships may be necessary to respond to the severe challenges of fragile states. The primary objective is to develop and strengthen the relationship between service providers (state and non-state) and the users of those services in the marketplaces where they work, in the neighbourhoods in which they live, and on the roads they travel, while fostering greater performance accountability.
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