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How can security sector reform (SSR) assistance lead to effective and sustainable reforms, and ultimately contribute to reduce fragility, conflict and violence? This brief addresses this question by analyzing the introduction and implementation of the security sector public expenditure review (PER), a public sector governance instrument that assesses the efficiency and financial sustainability of governments’ security and defense allocations, including SSR programs. In particular, the text’s author focuses on lessons learned from the implementation of PERs in Liberia, Mali and Niger before highlighting their implications for EU security assistance in West Africa.