Main area: Peace and security
Theme: Activities involving partner country police
Assessment: ODA-eligible
Provider country: Hungary
Recipient country: Afghanistan
Implementing agency: Law and Order Trust Fund for Afghanistan
Budget (USD x 1000): 100
Year(s): 2015-2017
Purpose code: 15130 Legal and judicial development
Case number: Peace and Security / 25
Contribution to the financial sustainment of the Afghan National Defence and Security Forces: police component
Part of the Hungarian contribution to the financial sustainment of the Afghan National Defence Security Forces is intended to assist the capacity building of Afghan police forces. The Hungarian contribution is transferred to the Law and Order Trust Fund for Afghanistan, currently managed by UN Development Programme (UNDP), although this responsibility will be assumed by the Afghan Ministry of Interior once certain conditions are met. The use of the Law and Order Trust Fund for Afghanistan is part of a wider effort that is based on a set of objectives defined by UNDP; contributions from donors are used to cover expenses such as the salaries of the police staff, improving police infrastructure, training police officers with the ultimate objective of professionalising the Afghan police.
This activity aims to improve the capabilities of the Afghan police forces and to help the force move towards civilian policing.
Strengthened law enforcement institutions to perform functions related to civilian policing thereby replacing the current focus on fighting the insurgency.
This activity is deemed ODA-eligible. Financing for routine civil policing functions (i.e. pursuant to preventing and addressing criminal activities and the promotion of public safety) and the provision of related non-lethal equipment, or training, is reportable as ODA. Training in the governance and management of police equipment is eligible including the safety, security and storage of equipment intended to convey a threat of, or deliver, lethal force (see DCD/DAC(2024)40/FINAL, paragraph 124).
In regards to the additional safeguards, any of the following activities involving the police should be explicitly excluded from ODA (see DCD/DAC(2024)40/FINAL, paragraph 125):
Training in counter-subversion methods, suppression of political dissidence, or intelligence gathering on political activities.
The supply of the donor’s police services to control civil disobedience.
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