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The guide is designed to provide peacekeepers with a thorough and nuanced understanding on the policy, planning, cultural and ethnic implications, tradeoffs, and options for public services reconstruction. It takes the position ultimately that the host government is responsible for public goods. Stability actors and host country governments can cooperate on policy, resource allocation, and service planning, even when the majority of services may initially be provided by nonstate or external actors, but the host country is in the lead. Issues addressed include control of corruption, administration of public services, policy, resource allocation and joint budgeting for restoration, reconstruction, and maintenance. Immediately after a conflict, the flight of skilled professionals may have left little capacity for public services restoration, making it a critical priority to rebuild capacity in engineering, planning, budgeting, and maintenance as well as to reestablish the revenue generation to sustain these services. The role for stability actors is broad and critical in this effort, as they seek to restore the ability of a government to meet the expectations of its citizens and restore legitimacy and stability to a nation.
ISBN
2033
Publication Date
10-1-2009
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Recommended Citation
Derick W. Brinkerhoff Mr., Richard Hill Mr., Ronald W. Johnson Mr., and Susan Merrill Professor,
Guide to Rebuilding Public Sector Services in Stability Operations: A Role for the Military ( US Army War College Press, 2009),
https://press.armywarcollege.edu/monographs/617
