ABSTRACT
Security sector reform, referred to as ‘SSR’, is used to describe efforts to strengthen the effectiveness, accountability, and good governance of the security sector. SSR emerged as a distinct policy agenda through the late 1990s, framing security as a development issue. Feminist critique of SSR is levelled at both failure to implement policy commitments that SSR be gender-responsive – address the different needs of men, women, boys, and girls, and facilitate the participation of women as well as men – and at gender and SSR policy approaches themselves.
