This report includes coverage of a number of donor designed frameworks for assessing the policing and justice sector. According to much of the general academic and policy literature on SSAJ programmes, substantial reform of the police force is only possible when reform of the justice system is administered at the same time. However, whilst the underlying principles for the institutional assessment of policing and justice may be similar, the specific frameworks espoused by donors appear to tackle the institutional assessment of policing and justice separately.
Case study information was difficult to source but the few examples found during the course of this research are included in separate sections. It may be that much of this information is contained in donor or NGO documentation which is not available in the public domain. It may also be the case that assessments are rarely followed through in the comprehensive or systematic manner prescribed in donor frameworks and guidance.
This report also includes some documents that provide frameworks for the institutional assessment of the security and justice sector as a whole. The principles underlying these frameworks and the methodologies used may prove useful and transferable when conceptualising the approach to the institutional assessment of the police and justice sectors.
