Communication specialist for Federal Government of Somalia. Duty station: Mogadishu, Somalia with frequent traveling to Somalia regions. Through funding from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency Sida , the government of Sweden has been supporting the secondment of high-capacity Somali experts to a range of national institutions in Somalia for several years. As is well understood by those working in Somalia, government institutions have limited capacities to carry out their mandates following decades of conflict.
By helping to provide highly qualified Somali experts to weakened government institutions, this programme seeks to boost their capacity to function and implement government policy. While the provision of experts under a single programme will not remedy all of the capacity constraints faced by the government, this programme will help to build the core competencies necessary to achieve longer-term and more ambitious development goals in the years ahead.
In addition, a top-up salary will be provided for 50 local Somali civil servants already working in the selected key government institutions or recent university graduates who will be taken in as interns attached to the diaspora experts.
The planned 50 diaspora and local experts and 50 civil servants and interns will be apportioned between different institutions based on extensive discussions with Sida, FGS, FMS governments and other donors providing capacity-building programmes to these institutions. The Prime Minister has established a National Coordination Committee on COVID as high-level coordination structure overseeing preparedness and response activities of the COVID outbreak, members of the committee include representatives from the chamber of commerce, Somali Medical Association, Religious leaders, and civil society associations, the committee also works with number of sub working groups.
The committee is led by the Prime Minister of Somalia, with Federal Minister of Finance and Federal Minister of Health and Human Services participating, the National committee have now also proposed eight sub working groups to ensure that the undergoing efforts are managed to some level of standard and well-coordinated.
