Building Integrity Course Catalogue
This is the Building Integrity Course Catalogue. The Building Integrity (BI) Programme provides practical tools to help participating countries strengthen integrity, transparency and accountability, and reduce the risk of corruption in the defence and security sectors. It promotes good practices, … Read more
NATO2015Monitoring and Investigating the Security Sector: Recommendations for Ombudsman Institutions to Promote and Protect Human Rights for Public Security
This book focuses on the role of Ombuds institutions in monitoring and investigating the security sector. It argues that independent ombudsman institutions can play an important role in strengthening democratic oversight and furthering human and public security. There is only … Read more
DCAF2007Making Intelligence Accountable: Legal Standards and Best Practice for Oversight of Intelligence Agencies
This publication classifies and evaluates the legal standards that currently exist regarding the democratic accountability of intelligence services. The publication also identifies and recommends best practices applicable to both transition countries and well-established democracies.
DCAF2005International Standards of Financial Oversight in the Security Sector
This Toolkit provides readers with easy access to internationally-adopted guiding principles, standards, and best practices of financial oversight of security sector institutions. The toolkit allows readers to access key international standards on budgeting and auditing in the security sector; compare … Read more
DCAF2015Integrating a Gender Perspective into Internal Oversight within Armed Forces
This guidance note is an essential resource for those working at the strategic or management level in the armed forces; gender units, as gender advisers and gender focal points; as equal opportunities officers and others responsible for human resources; and … Read more
DCAF2014Integrating Gender into Oversight of the Security Sector by Ombuds Institutions & National
This guidance note is a practical resource for Ombuds institutions and NHRIs, and those who support them. The publication can help an Ombuds institution or NHRI engage more effectively with police, militaries and other security sector institutions to monitor and … Read more
DCAF2014Integrating Gender into Internal Police Oversight
Designed as a complement to the DCAF, OSCE/ODIHR, UN-INSTRAW Gender and Security Sector Reform Toolkit, and DCAF’s Gender Self-Assessment Guide, the guidance notes focus on integrating gender into systems and processes within police services and armed forces, and on equipping … Read more
DCAF2014Code of Good Practices on Fiscal Transparency
This Code of Good Practices illustrates the degree of transparency to which governments and their fiscal institutions ought to achieve. The code explains the clarity of roles and responsibilities, open-budget processes, public availability of information, and assurances of integrity.
International Monetary Fund2007OMBUDS Institutions for the Armed Forces: A Handbook
This handbook examines Ombuds institutions for the armed forces and their role in the promotion and protection of human rights as well as in the prevention of maladministration. Developed in cooperation with the International Conference of Ombuds Institutions for the … Read more
DCAF2012Integrity Action Plan: A Handbook for Practitioners in Defence Establishments
This handbook on Integrity Action Plans aims to help practitioners in defence establishments produce real and lasting change. The handbook outlines how practitioners ought to assess corruption risks and address identified weaknesses and shortcomings. Furthermore, the Action Plan emphasises the … Read more
Centre for Integrity in the Defence Sector2014