Training and Consultancy

The Institute engages in training and consultancy activities in various areas related to civic education, human rights, governance, media, environmental preservation, conflict resolution, and gender, to name a few. These trainings and capacity building programs are valuable to be offered governmental organs, civil society’s foundations, professional associations, etc. As a matter of policy, the Institute’s major priority is to build and improve the capacity of the individuals both in the public and the private organizations and to build a society that functions generally better than it did so far.

On the contrary, the Institute is prepared to challenge the prime difficulties that face Somaliland in its political transformation and democratization include: lack of familiarity with the process of democratization, good governance and its accompanying dialogues, debate and compromise. In this regard, the current political democratization does not provide Somaliland people with a model democracy and this makes difficult for the people to make informed and unbiased choices.

For this to happen, the ISS endeavors to enhance the concept of individual and collective responsibilities; promote good governance and civic education trainings through national forums; and also through research findings, and on the other hand create an environment of discussion on how the existing political parties propose to decide Somaliland’s economic and social troubles pluralities and abandon their current debate that turn around their political vendettas. Therefore, the ultimate goal of the Institute is to raise the awareness of the public to realize that democracy means more than just voting.