Statebuilding and Justice Reform by Matteo Tondini

Author:Matteo Tondini [Tondini, Matteo]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Military, General, Political Science, Civil Rights, International Relations, Security (National & International)
ISBN: 9781135233181
Google: T0COAgAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010-02-25T01:15:48+00:00

6.5.2 The costs of US civilian assistance

The US contribution to justice sector reform has grown gradually over the years. In 2002–2007, INL and USAID spent US $110.4 million on rule of law programmes (US $64 and 46.4 million, respectively). In the fiscal year 2007, the United States spent US $67.35 million (US $55 million through the INL programmes and US $12.35 million in USAID funding). In order to evaluate these figures, one should compare them with the total amount of contributions/pledges provided by other donors (Italy included), which was US $164.8 million at the end of 2007 (US $81.8 million before the Rome Conference and US $83 million pledged at the same event – not considering the US contribution). Therefore, by the end of 2007, justice sector reform in Afghanistan had received a total of US $275.2 (110.4 + 164.8) million.113 This data reveals that the vast majority of funding has been provided by the US (see Figure 6.6).

Recently, US efforts in justice sector reform have even increased. In the fiscal year 2008, the INL budget reached US $68 million, while USAID received US $4 million. A further US $20 million were granted by the Congress as emergency supplemental funds. This caused the US annual contribution to leaven up to US $92 million, which is far more than that allocated by Italy to the justice sector since 2002. Once again this level of funding makes the US the biggest donor in the Afghan justice system, even though the US affirms it will not be able to cover the sector’s future needs, estimated to be US $600 million over the next five years, on its own. In addition, notwithstanding the huge US involvement, data proves that funds allocated for justice sector reform represent only a small fraction (0.48 per cent) of the US assistance to Afghanistan, which by the end of 2007 was estimated to be over US $22.8 billion.114 This reveals the poor attention paid to justice system reform by the US, if compared to other sectors. In fact, these figures do not include

Figure 6.6 Funds allocated on justice system reform by the US, Italy and other donors.

Source: US Government 2008.

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