THE INTERNATIONAL SECURITY SECTOR ADVISORY TEAM (ISSAT) Supporting the International Community's SSR Capacity



THE INTERNATIONAL SECURITY SECTOR ADVISORY TEAM (ISSAT)
About Us About Us The Team Vacancies Contact Activities Planned Activities Completed Activities ISSAT Activity Areas SSR Training SSR Assessment SSR Monitoring and Evaluation Guidance on SSR Progamme Design Tools Key Instruments And Toolkits Country Specific Documents Français ¦ DCAF
ABOUT ISSAT In February 2008 the International Security Sector Advisory Team (ISSAT) was established as an integral part of the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF), in recognition of the need to increase the capacity of the international community to support Security Sector Reform (SSR) processes, to enhance the effectiveness and quality of SSR programming, and to facilitate the coordination and coherence of international assistance for nationally driven SSR processes. ISSAT MISSION STATEMENT The International Security Sector Advisory Team (ISSAT) provides support to the international community to reinforce and strengthen their individual and collective efforts to improve security and justice, primarily in conflict affected and fragile states. ISSAT builds the capacity of its Members to provide more effective support to SSR processes. ISSAT GUIDING PRINCIPLES ISSAT is guided by the recognition that security, development and human rights are preconditions for sustainable peace. ISSAT’s guiding principles on SSR interventions are drawn from the United Nations Secretary General’s report on SSR (2008) and the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development, Development Assistance Committee’s (OECD DAC) Handbook on SSR (2007).>> See more ISSAT CORE SERVICES ISSAT core services are prioritised as follows: 1. Advisory Field Support ISSAT offers Members’ field and headquarters staff targeted, project-specific SSR support in the areas of Assessment, Programme Design and Monitoring & Evaluation. Such support is provided primarily through short-term, in-country deployment of core staff and expert roster members. 2. Operational Guidance Tools Based on the experience gained through its advisory field support, ISSAT develops customised, demand-driven, operational tools to support Members’ to assess, design, monitor and evaluate SSR processes and programmes. 3. Knowledge Services ISSAT knowledge services are meant to assist in achieving the objectives of the other ISSAT’s core services which include fostering learning opportunities for security and justice practitioners to exchange information, to share good practice, and more broadly, to facilitate communication. These services include face-to-face meetings to bringing practitioners together to share lessons learned, as well as e-services (to be integrated into the ISSAT website in 2010), which include on-line distribution of Operational Guidance Notes, gathering of Lessons Learned and Good Practice and facilitation of a Community of Practice. 4. Training Support ISSAT offers support to its Members and ASSET partners to conduct training as a core instrument to develop capacity and awareness for field staff. Through ISSAT’s co-learning training approach, Members and ASSET partners are supported to provide general and specialised training. ISSAT GOVERNING BOARD The Governing Board oversees ISSAT’s work. Its membership consists of 14 countries and 5 multilateral organisations which include: Austria, Belgium, Canada, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, The Netherlands, Norway, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, European Union, OECD-DAC Secretariat, UNDP, UN DPKO, UN DPA. BROCHURE For more information on the ISSAT please click on the link below to download the ISSAT Brochure [620 KB]
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