Somalia Security and Justice Public Expenditure Review
In late 2013, the Ministry of Finance (MoF) of the Federal Government of Somalia (FGS) requested that the World Bank and UNSOM jointly conduct a public expenditure review of the security and justice sectors (SJPER). An SJPER is a tool to assist pol...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/644671486531571103/Somalia-Security-and-justice-sector-public-expenditure-review http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26030 |
| Summary: | In late 2013, the Ministry of Finance
(MoF) of the Federal Government of Somalia (FGS) requested
that the World Bank and UNSOM jointly conduct a public
expenditure review of the security and justice sectors
(SJPER). An SJPER is a tool to assist policy and operational
decision-making, analyze tradeoffs, and provide options on
critical financially-related issues in defense, as well as
criminal justice and policing. Three years later, Somalia is
undergoing yet another political transition with the
election of a new parliament and ultimately a new president.
These steps will augur in a new government in 2017 that will
be charged with finalizing some of the key issues around the
constitution, including the relationship between the federal
state and its federal members, as well as leading the
country to democratic elections in 2020. Security and
justice issues are hinged to many of these overarching
political questions; these are two fundamental ‘public
goods’ that are central to the (re)building of the Somali
state and the transition from war to peace. In this context,
the SJPER is a technical tool to assist the FGS, the federal
members, and their international partners in placing these
critical security and justice policy questions within a
public finance perspective. As a tool, rather than a one-off
report, it should be used by the authorities and partners
going forward in terms of testing the critical policy
questions against the key dimensions studied here, including
affordability, efficiency and effectiveness and accountability. |
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