Transition International provides specialized services to assist our clients to foster enhanced rule of law, breaking cycles of violence and laying the foundation for justice and sustainable development. TI strategically combines bottom-up approach focusing on citizens, civil society and other rights-holders, with top-down approach focusing on the state on other duty bearers, thus providing as comprehensive and balanced approach as possible. Security Sector Reform (SSR) and Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) processes are often fundamental in the transition from war to peace and state building processes, including the right-sizing of security services and enhancing their inclusivity, effectiveness and accountability. The variations and evolvements in the nature of violent conflicts determines the DDR and SSR trajectories in different complex contexts. DDR approaches evolved into several alternative and innovative practices and tools such as Community Violence Reduction (CVR), reversing sequencing into RDD, interim security arrangements, community security programming, as well as Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) control and Transitional Weapon Management (TWAM). TI provides the following services to support rule of law interventions:

Advisory Services

• Designing, drafting and evaluating rule of law programmes, including on SSR, DDR, CVR, TWAM, justice and community security
• Capacity building programmes for legal and operational actors
• Facilitating the formulation of context driven policies to promote rule of law, DDR, SSR and CVR, conform with international standards
• High level policy advice to national and international decision makers
• Technical assistance to develop effective TWAM and SALW reduction and management
• Institutional capacity assessments of DDR commissions and the design of capacity development strategies
• Assessment and design of SSR and DDR management and coordination mechanisms
• Third party monitoring support to donors

Training

• Design and facilitation of customized training/workshops on human rights, international justice standards and transitional justice
• Customised training on DDR, CVR, TWAM/SALW and community security
• Training on legal aspects of peacekeeping (the UN Charter, human rights, transitional justice, rules of engagement, sexual exploitation and abuse, protection of civilians etc.)
• Training on of national and local authorities, and regional bodies on Rule of Law, Peace and Security
• Design and delivery of training programmes on SSR

Knowledge Development

• Needs and capacity assessments of rule of law and justice institutions
• Stakeholder mapping
• Taking stock of lessons learnt and best practice and translation of these into policy and programme recommendations.
• Applied research in drivers of recruitment and community violence
• Profiling, socio-economic opportunity mapping for reinsertion programming
• Community perception surveys on perceived insecurity and security needs/priorities
• Gendered rule of law assessments
• Cross border recruitment and potential return of foreign fighters and their families