ABBREVIATIONS

A

ACO

Allied Command Operations, NATO

ACT

Allied Command Transformation, NATO

ASD

Aerospace and Defence Industries Association of Europe

B

BI

Building Integrity

C

CAF

Common Assessment Framework – the estimation of administrative management quality in public authorities

CI

TI’s defence companies’ index

CIDS

Centre for Integrity in the Defence Sector

CPI

Corruption Perception Index

CSDM

Centre for Security and Defence Management

CSO

Civil Society Organization

D

DAC

Defence Against Corruption

DCBI

Defence Capacity Building Initiative At its Wales summit NATO announced the Defence and Related Security Capacity Building Initiative. For details see article 34 of the Wales Summit Declaration  and this website for follow-us.

DIB

Defence Institution Building

DII

Defense Industry Initiative

DOD

(US) Department of Defense

DRMI

Defense Resource Management Institute (at NPS, Monterey, California)

E

E&T

Education & Training

EDA

European Defence Agency

G

GAO

(US) Government Accountability Office

GFS

Government Finance Statistics

GI

TI’s governmental (MOD) integrity index

GRECO

Group of States Against Corruption

H

HRM

Human Resource Management

I

IMF

International Monetary Fund

INDOC

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

ISAF

International Security Assistance Force (in Afghanistan)

M

MOI

Ministry of the Interior

N

NPS

(US) Naval Postgraduate School

NSO

NATO School Oberammergau

O

OGI

Open Government Initiative

OSCE

Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe

P

PAP-DIB

Partnership Action Plan on Defence Institution Building

PEFA

Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (Initiative of the World Bank)

PFI

Private Finance Initiative

PfP

Partnership for Peace

PMC

Private Military Company

PMSC

Political-Military Steering Committee of the SEDM process.

See the page of the current chair of SEDM for details on the structure of cooperation.

PPBES

Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution System

PPBS

Planning, Programming and Budgeting System

PPP

Public-Private Partnership

PRT

Provincial Reconstruction Team

PSC

Private Security Company

S

SEDM

South-Eastern Defence Ministerial process of defence cooperation among the countries in South Eastern Europe.

SEDM objectives, are defined as follows:

• Promotion of mutual understanding, confidence and cooperation among member countries
• Contribution of SEDM and Multinational Peace Force of the SEE (MPFSEE) / South-Eastern Europe Brigade (SEEBRIG) to regional and worldwide security and stability
• Enhancement of the SEEBRIG interoperability and capability to deploy in peace support missions
• Facilitation of SEEBRIG employment in peace support operations
• Promotion of Euro-Atlantic integration processes of SEDM member nations
• Implementation and development of the SEDM projects
• Enlargement of the SEDM process with new members
• Cooperation with International Organizations (UN, EU, NATO and OCSE)

SSG

Security Sector Governance

SSR

Security Sector Reform

SST

Security Sector Transformation

T

TI

Transparency International

TI-DSP

Transparency International Defence and Security Programme

TRA

Training Requirements Analysis

W

WB

World Bank