Netherlands

In 2010, at the request of the Netherlands, ISSAT was asked to support a group of four police academies to develop a two week training course, targeting mainly (senior) law enforcement officials. The aim of the course is to train these officers on the issues around police reform within an SSR and post-conflict context, and to prepare them to act as police reform advisors within multilateral mission or bilateral support programmes.

The programme is a joint endeavour chaired by the Netherlands in conjunction with Norway,Canada and the UK. ISSAT was mandated to provide advisory support as well as its current SSR training materials, and to present a module on looking at police reform through an SSR lens. The first course was piloted in September 2011, and a second course took place in 2012, both at Bramshill in the UK. The Third course was hosted in 2013 by the Swiss at Stans, and this year’s Master Class will be hosted by the Norwegians in Stavern, Norway.

Support will be provided through a sensitisation on SSR as part of the induction training for the core team in Brussels prior to their deployment and backstopping for the deployment of the core team in Bamako during the development of the CONOPS.

Backstopping will be carried out in response to specific demands from EUCAP SAHEL MALI and/or the External Action Service Civilian Planning and Conduct Capability (CPCC), including providing key lessons, examples and tools, as well as facilitating greater contact between the mission and ISSAT’s Governing Board and partners in country.

The Netherlands-Burundi cooperation was captured in a Memorandum of Understanding, signed in 2009. This MoU served as a framework for Netherlands-Burundi Security Sector Development programme (which included 3 pillars: Ministry of Public Security, Ministry of Defence and Security Sector Governance) for a period of eight years (2009-2017). This period was divided into four phases, each lasting two years. A strategic plan was developed for each phase. 

The objective of this mandate was to carry out an evaluation of the Burundi SSD programme Phase II and formulate recommendations for the preparation of the next phases.

 More specifically, ISSAT was required to:  

• Evaluate the relevance of the Phase II objectives and the activities implemented to reach those objectives, from an SSD perspective and within the Burundi context.
• Evaluate the impact of Phase II activities with regard to the principles of SSR. Formulate recommendations to improve the relevance and design of Phase III objectives, activities, including measurable indicators.
  • Evaluate the process of the Defence review (taking into account the recent study on the Defence review commissioned by the DSS).
  • Define lessons learned in Phase II so the international community of SSR can profit from the successes and less successful parts of the SSD programme until now.
• The evaluation will also contribute to the assessment of the functioning of the SSD programme structure (efficiency, ability of the existing structure design to achieve the desired objectives) and formulate recommendations to improve the programme structure for Phase III.

The target audience of this evaluation is the management units of the SSD, the responsible units of the programme within the Dutch MFA (Embassy and DSH). The report will also be made available to a wider external public in Burundi and abroad.

A 1 day seminar for participants of the civ mil exercise Reliable Sword; on basics of SSR.

Target group consists of Captains, Majors, of German and NL brigades, staff of NGOs and MFA of the Netherlands

A 1 day seminar for participants of the civ mil exercise Reliable Sword; on basics of SSR.

Target group consists of Captains, Majors, of German and NL brigades, staff of NGOs and MFA of the Netherlands