Survey of US Security Sector Reform
March 2009
This report by Jake Sherman for Saferworld provides an overview of the US Government's arrangement for monitoring and evaluating the support it provides to security sector reform.
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Strengthening Security Sector Governance in West Africa
March 2009
Across West Africa, the absence of effective, democratic governance of the security sector has been a significant casual factor of state fragility or civil war. Jake Sherman, Lead Researcher for CIC ’s Security Sector Reform project, funded by the Royal Government of Norway, undertook a comparative study of legislative oversight of security sector reform (SSR) in West Africa during 2008.
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The Afghan National Development Strategy: The Right Plan at the Wrong Time?
February 2009
In 2005 the Government of Afghanistan initiated a process leading to the formulation of the Afghanistan National Development Strategy(ANDS). Jake Sherman argues that ANDS is hindered by flawed assumptions about the nature of Afghanistan's political, economic and social realities.
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Right-Financing Security Sector Reform
January 2008
This paper, part of CIC and PERI's Public Finance in Post-Conflict Environments policy series, argues for adopting a “right-financing” approach to SSR as a way to balance immediate security needs with longer-term goals of fiscal sustainability.
Dilemmas and Challenges in Afghanistan's Security Sector Reform
December 2007
In this case study from SSRBulletin, Jake Sherman discusses the continuing challenges to SSR efforts in Afghanistan. |