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The donor community has made good progress in recent years in developing coherent and progressive policy and guidance on aspects of security system reform (SSR). Two of the most important advances are the 2004 Organisation for Economic Development (OECD) Development Assistance Committee (DAC) policy statement and paper Security System Reform and Governance: Policy and Good Practice and the subsequent guidance provided in the 2007 OECD DAC Handbook on Security System Reform: Supporting Security and Justice. The OECD DAC Handbook is the first comprehensive framework to assist those involved in SSR work in designing and implementing SSR projects. It is also clearly and explicitly norm-driven, stipulating guiding and strategic principles for donor support to SSR processes.