Justice Financing Framework: Background Brief 5.1 Achievability, Costing, and Prioritization

This background brief is part of the Justice Financing Framework (JFF), and proposes that countries should cost and prioritize activities to ensure people-centered justice plans are achievable within medium-term resource availability. 

Planning should be undertaken on the basis that any increase in government resources for the justice sector is likely to be incremental and achieved mainly through increased GDP growth. The focus should be on what is achievable and affordable within annual budgeting and medium-term planning periods, and on what the government is confident of being held accountable for in light of the realistic resource envelope.

This background brief:

• Discusses some considerations for developing a fully costed and prioritized medium-term reform and investment plan for people-centered justice.
• Considers a realistic resource envelope.
• Discusses the need to make difficult decisions in light of costing and prioritization.