Supporting Ukraine’s Security Sector Reform: Mapping Security Sector Assistance Programmes (original) (raw)

2018, Supporting Ukraine’s Security Sector Reform: Mapping Security Sector Assistance Programmes

This mapping study broadly identified international and national projects in the field of SSR and democratic oversight of Ukraine's security sector from 2015 to early 2018. With a wide range of governance initiatives impacting the reform of Ukrainian security policies and practices, the mapping further developed Folke Bernadotte Academy’s (FBA) analytical framework – used to map SSR projects in Ukraine in 2015 – to capture an even broader range of international assistance programmes. By covering international and regional organizations’ initiatives, as well as national projects, the study sought to comprehensively map contemporary security sector reform/governance (SSR/G) programmes across Ukraine’s democratic institutions, executive, government, independent oversight institutions, civil society, media and security sector institutions. The study was necessarily descriptive: normative questions pertaining to the impact and efficiency of particular projects were beyond its scope. Ultimately, the product was intended to support various nations and organizations in planning their future 2018-2022 SSR programming in Ukraine by highlighting the volume of projects in each thematic area.