📋 Tender Overview
By increasing democratic civilian control respecting the rule of law upholding human rights and integrating a real role for women good security sector governance helps build the populations trust and provides stability by significantly contributing to conflict prevention.An updated second edition of the Guidelines on Security Sector Governance and Reform for OSCE staff was unveiled on 3 December 2021 at a side event held at the 28th OSCE Ministerial Council in Stockholm Sweden.This new edition of the Guidelines will ensure that OSCE assistance to participating States is comprehensive cross-dimensional gender-sensitive and impact-oriented in support of the security needs of the whole population said Tuula Yrjl Director of the OSCEs Conflict Prevention Centre.Kathleen Kavalec Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina and Pierre Von Arx Head of the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan provided practical examples of the OSCEs assistance. Von Arx highlighted the Project Co-ordinators work on strengthening parliamentary financial oversight and underlined that all support is implemented with full respect for national ownership.Ambassador Radomir Boh Permanent Representative of Slovakia and Chair of the Group of Friends of Security Sector Governance and Reform SSGR in the OSCE added that Discussions on SSGR clearly demonstrates how much the agenda has been evolving within the OSCE in these past years. 46 participating States signing up to this years Group of Friends Statement is a clear sign of support and an important acknowledgement of the relevance that SSGR has in the OSCE context.
