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Post-Conflict Security Sector and Public Finance Management : Lessons from Afghanistan

dc.contributor.author World Bank
dc.date.accessioned 2012-08-13T14:22:21Z
dc.date.available 2012-08-13T14:22:21Z
dc.date.issued 2006-07
dc.description.abstract In recent years, international organizations like OECD and the World Bank have concluded that standard principles of Public Finance Management (PFM) are equally applicable to all areas of the national budget, including the security sector. To date however, very few reviews of PFM systems have included the security sector, not least because many governments tend to be overly protective about scrutiny of public finances in this sector, and as a result most donors have been reluctant to engage. As a result, the bulk of public expenditure reviews have focused on non-security components of the national budget, which represent an important but incomplete slice of national spending. Despite growing awareness of the importance of extending PFM reviews to the security sector, so far the challenge of moving beyond basic principles toward the adoption of a more comprehensive approach to building an effective and fiscally sustainable post-conflict security sector remains elusive. In countries such as Afghanistan, Iraq and Sierra Leone, national authorities and donors are struggling to regain control of unaffordable levels of security sector spending, much of it financed directly by donors. In many cases long-term external assistance may be required for the security sector, generating severe trade-offs with other priority sectors which also require long-term external support. Overcoming the legacy of a fiscally unsustainable and poorly managed security sector calls for full application of PFM principles to support the establishment of checks and balances required to establish a wholly accountable security sector. en
dc.identifier http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/07/7008620/post-conflict-security-sector-public-finance-management-lessons-afghanistan
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10986/11180
dc.language English
dc.publisher Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseries Social Development Notes; No. 24
dc.rights CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder World Bank
dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subject ACCOUNTABILITY
dc.subject ACCOUNTING
dc.subject AGGREGATE FISCAL
dc.subject AGGREGATE FISCAL CONSTRAINTS
dc.subject ANNUAL BUDGET
dc.subject ANNUAL BUDGET FORMULATION
dc.subject ANNUAL BUDGET PROCESS
dc.subject ARMED FORCES
dc.subject AUDITOR GENERAL
dc.subject BASIC SERVICES
dc.subject BUDGET ALLOCATIONS
dc.subject BUDGET AUTHORITIES
dc.subject BUDGET CYCLE
dc.subject BUDGET EXECUTION
dc.subject BUDGET FORMULATION PROCESS
dc.subject BUDGET PLANNING
dc.subject BUDGET YEAR
dc.subject BUDGETARY EXPENDITURES
dc.subject CAPACITY BUILDING
dc.subject CAPACITY-BUILDING
dc.subject CAPITAL BUDGET
dc.subject CIVIL SERVICE
dc.subject CIVIL SERVICE REFORM
dc.subject DECISION-MAKING
dc.subject DONOR COORDINATION
dc.subject DONOR FUNDING
dc.subject EXPENDITURE ALLOCATIONS
dc.subject EXPENDITURE DECISIONS
dc.subject EXPENDITURE REQUIREMENTS
dc.subject EXPENDITURES
dc.subject EXTERNAL ASSISTANCE
dc.subject FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS
dc.subject FISCAL CONSTRAINTS
dc.subject FISCAL DECISIONS
dc.subject FISCAL DISCIPLINE
dc.subject FISCAL ENVELOPE
dc.subject FISCAL HEALTH
dc.subject FISCAL OPERATIONS
dc.subject FISCAL PERSPECTIVE
dc.subject FISCAL PROJECTIONS
dc.subject FISCAL SUSTAINABILITY
dc.subject GOVERNMENT POLICY
dc.subject GOVERNMENT SPENDING
dc.subject HARD BUDGET CONSTRAINTS
dc.subject INFORMATION FLOWS
dc.subject INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY
dc.subject INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
dc.subject INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT
dc.subject MILITARY TRAINING
dc.subject MINISTRY OF FINANCE
dc.subject NATIONAL AUTHORITIES
dc.subject NATIONAL BUDGET
dc.subject NATIONAL PRIORITY
dc.subject NATIONAL SECURITY
dc.subject OVERSIGHT BODIES
dc.subject POLICY DECISIONS
dc.subject POVERTY REDUCTION
dc.subject PRIVATE INVESTMENT
dc.subject PROGRAMS
dc.subject PUBLIC
dc.subject PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
dc.subject PUBLIC EXPENDITURE
dc.subject PUBLIC EXPENDITURE REVIEWS
dc.subject PUBLIC EXPENDITURES
dc.subject PUBLIC FINANCE
dc.subject PUBLIC FINANCE MANAGEMENT
dc.subject PUBLIC FINANCES
dc.subject PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
dc.subject PUBLIC GOODS
dc.subject PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS
dc.subject PUBLIC POLICY OBJECTIVES
dc.subject PUBLIC RESOURCES
dc.subject PUBLIC SPENDING
dc.subject REFORM PROGRAMS
dc.subject RESOURCE ALLOCATION
dc.subject SECTOR BUDGET
dc.subject SECTOR CEILINGS
dc.subject SECTOR MINISTRIES
dc.subject SECTOR POLICIES
dc.subject SERVICE DELIVERY
dc.subject SOCIAL CAPITAL
dc.subject STRATEGIC ALLOCATION
dc.subject STRATEGIC ALLOCATION OF RESOURCES
dc.subject STRATEGIC POLICY
dc.subject STRATEGIC PRIORITIES
dc.subject TOTAL SPENDING
dc.subject TRANSPARENCY
dc.title Post-Conflict Security Sector and Public Finance Management : Lessons from Afghanistan en
dspace.entity.type Publication
okr.crosscuttingsolutionarea Fragility, Conflict, and Violence
okr.doctype Publications & Research :: Brief
okr.doctype Publications & Research
okr.docurl http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/07/7008620/post-conflict-security-sector-public-finance-management-lessons-afghanistan
okr.globalpractice Social, Urban, Rural and Resilience
okr.globalpractice Education
okr.globalpractice Governance
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum 000090341_20060823101926
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum 7008620
okr.identifier.report 36893
okr.language.supported en
okr.pdfurl http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2006/08/23/000090341_20060823101926/Rendered/PDF/368930SDN2401PUBLIC1.pdf en
okr.region.administrative South Asia
okr.region.country Afghanistan
okr.topic Public Sector Economics
okr.topic Education :: Education for the Knowledge Economy
okr.topic Public Sector Expenditure Policy
okr.topic International Terrorism and Counterterrorism
okr.topic Social Development :: Children and Youth
okr.topic Public Sector Development
okr.topic Conflict and Development
okr.unit Social Development Department (SDV)
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