Our Objectives

  • Promote good governance, transparency, and accountability within and amongst political institutions.
  • Promote and encourage integration of traditional and conventional mechanisms for conflict resolution;
  • Promote civic education among citizens for civil participation in governance;
  • Be a platform of dialogue and building of consensus on important national issues amongst democratic institutions.
  • Enhance institutional strengthening through policy advocacy and capacity building and; Contribute to various levels of reconciliation, social integration, and respect of human rights, ending the culture of impunity, and reconstruction and development.
  • Assist federal Regional and local governments with the formation of healthcare, education, social welfare, human rights and security policies.
  • Empower and promote community-based security frameworks.
  • Strengthen the capacity of institutions to be effective in deepening and consolidating democratic governance in Somalia.
  • Enhance gender equity and effective participation and representation at all levels in the management of democratic institutions.
  • Facilitate institutions to develop and enforce a code of conduct and other ethical standards to ensure internal institutional democracy, mutual respect and participatory decision making.