Good Governance and Institution Building sector
The Good Governance and Institution Building sector is made up of four sub-sectors. These are: Legal and Judicial Reform, Human Rights, Public Administration Reform (PAR), and Civil Society. The largest share of the funding was allocated to the PAR sub-sector.
Good Governance sub-sector composition in 2007
Donor composition in the Good Governance and Institution Building sector in 2007
Donor composition in the Legal and Judicial Reform sub-sector in 2007
Donor composition in Human Rights sub-sector in 2007
Donor composition in the Public Administration Reform (PAR) sub-sector in 2007
Donor composition in the Civil Society sector in 2007
Donor
Activities in 2007
Currently
the donors in the Good Governance and Institution
Building sector are Austria/ADA,
Canada/CIDA, France,
Germany/GTZ, Italy/IC, the Netherlands,
Norway,
Spain/AECID, Sweden/SIDA, Switzerland/SDC/SECO, UK/DFID, USA/USAID, the EC,
UNDP, and the World Bank. Together, in 2007, these donors allocated a total of
€ 48 million to the sector, of which € 11 million was in the form of loans.
Sector
Strategies
The Justice Sector Reform Strategy (2008-2012) was developed through a
collaborative process among the main stakeholders and opened to public consultation. It was formally adopted in 2008. Its five main pillars of reform focus on the judicial system, the execution of criminal sanctions, access to justice, support to economic growth, and well-managed and coordinated sector.
There
is no state-level Human Rights
strategy. The BiH Ministry of Human Rights and Refugees adopted the Strategy of
Bosnia and Herzegovina
for the Implementation of Annex VII of the Dayton Peace Agreement (DPA) in
2003, which was meant to be fully realized by the end of 2006. At this point
the strategy for the implementation of Annex VII is in the process of revision.
Plans for the Country Development Strategy and Social Inclusion Strategy (SIS),
2008-2013, which are supposed to substitute for the MTDS, were publicly
presented towards the end of 2007. It is foreseen that the SIS will deal with
Human Rights issues.
The
PAR strategy has been developed by
the Public Administration Reform Coordinator’s Office (PARCO) with the support
of experts from the EC, UNDP, and the Office of the High Representative (OHR),
as well as a number of domestic institutions’ representatives. The CoM and the
governments of both Entities and the Brčko District adopted the Strategy in
2006. The six core reform areas of the PAR strategy are policy-making and coordination capacity, public finance, human resources, adminsitrative procedures, institutional communcation, and information technologies.
To
date there has been no fully-developed and adopted state strategy dealing
explicitly with Civil Society. The
only attempt at drafting a strategy for the sector was a grassroots one (- Strategy
for the development of the non-governmental sector in BiH). State
strategies addressing Civil Society will be the Country Development Strategy
and the Social Inclusion Strategy as well as the entity-level Development
Strategies.
Donor
Coordination
In
the Legal and Judicial Reform sub-sector
the main mechanism for coordinating agency activities is bimonthly meetings
called by the BiH Ministry of Justice’s Sector for Strategic Planning, Aid Coordination and European Integration (SSPACEI). These meetings bring together a wide variety of stakeholders.
In
the Human Rights sub-sector in 2007,
coordination took place in terms of bilateral meetings between donors, but
there have been no regular gatherings involving all stakeholders.
In
the PAR sub-sector until the
beginning of 2007 donor-only meetings took place. However, there has been a
significant improvement in this regard as recently PARCO has assumed
chairmanship at these meetings.
In
the Civil Society sub-sector as of
June 2007, Japan/JICA, Norway,
Sweden/SIDA, Switzerland/SDC/SECO, USA/USAID, EC, UNDP and the Association of
Civil Society met every few months to discuss organizations and their
assessment of the sector. The Civil Society Coordination Group meeting is held
bimonthly. There has been no permanent chair. Nonetheless, donors identified
the need to introduce some clear regulations as to who should lead these
coordination meetings. In 2007, the Netherlands also organized several
coordination meetings of international agencies assisting Civil Society.
For
a complete overview of donor support to the Good Governance and Institution Building sector, click
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