Projects & Areas of Expertise

During its over decade in service, SORADI has carried extensive projects on diverse fields and dimensions of development, as presented in below;

Climate Change, Pastoralism and Environmental Impact Studies

- Currently SORADI is working in a Consortium comprising of Danish Southern University and Danish Institute for International Studies in Denmark; SORADI, University of Hargeisa in Somaliland, University of Nairobi in Kenya – on Climate change impact on pastoralism and local resilience capacities. - SORADI is in Collaboration with Research & Evidence Facility (EU Emergency Trust Fund for Africa) With SOAS and other Universities and agencies: closing the Environment -Migration Gap in Climate Policy and Programmes. - SORADI in collaboration with Hamburg University conducted baseline research on climate change Nexus with conflict in Sool and Sanaag; published a Policy Brief with Toda Peace Institute.

Empowering civil society and Institutionalization of Democracy

Strengthening Civil Society for Effective Democratic Participation; through the Independent Scholars Group (ISG), SORADI assisted the Somaliland Civil Society to purposefully get engaged in the democratization process, to have widened its space and to have its voice heard, during 2009 - 2013, SORADI has issued twenty situation papers analyzing the challenges facing the Somaliland democratization process and offering recommendations on the way forward, this papers are disseminated in English & Somali language on diverse media outlets including the newspapers, the radios, the news websites and the TVs.

Elections and Multi-party democracy process

SORADI played a pivotal role in mobilizing civil society organization to partner with NEC (National Electoral Commission) to realize successes of the presidential elections held on 26 June, 2010; - SORADI coordinated the Civil Society Steering Committee formed for the purpose; SORADI also supervised the activities of the newly formed and trained Election Conflict Mediation Teams spread in all regions of Somaliland. - SORADI partnered with the International Republican Institute-IRI, to mobilize and supervise with them successfully the domestic observers and their logistics to work with the international team deployed in areas not accessible to them for security reasons.

Good Governance: from 2007

SORADI led applied researches to analyze and build scenarios of the issues and challenges facing Somaliland to institutionalize democratization and generate healthy public debate. SORADI has conducted a research study titled “Institutionalizing Democracy In Somaliland” - 2009 - and SORADI has collaborated in its research activities with other international and local institutions including: the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University in Toronto Canada on “Institutionalizing Democracy in Somaliland: the Experience of Somaliland Democratic Institutions”, and the same named center at MOI University in Kenya in collaboration with the Academy for Peace and Development (APD) in Hargeisa, on “Remittances in Politics and Democratization: Somaliland Case Study”. Both research initiatives were funded by the IDRC – the International Development Research Centre of Canada. (2008-9)

Somaliland Media (from 2010)

SORADI engaged and influenced the Somaliland media through its analytical and objective approach of promoting good governance, social justice and advancing democracy. SORADI has cooperated with the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy (Centre for Socio-legal Studies at the University of Oxford) and Stanhope Centre (London School of Economics) to hold participatory workshops to assist local media outlets formulate their own press code of conduct and discuss the media role in elections in the light of Kenya experience in post-election violence.

Decentralization (2016-2018)

Focus on public sector accountability at the Municipal level – research and training focus. SORADI conducted an in-depth research on Hargeisa Municipality accountability challenges with a focus of social. A team of Five Ex-Mayors played a core project advisory role.

Inclusion and rights of marginalized groups (2016-18)

(1) At national level SORADI supported women and youth inclusion in political parties and government level decision making as well as supporting and training for elections candidacy for the legislature; (2) At Local Governance level, to empower local marginalized groups at Hargeisa Municipality level: women, Youth, culturally marginalized communities and the disabled. This role is immortalized by Emma Grant report with SORADI (2018) “the Voice of the Voiceless”; In the auspices of IAAAP project. (see www.soradi.org)

Accountability in Aid Implementation

Related with the Accountability mandate, SORADI is recognized a s a leader in the field of Third Party Monitoring (TPM) which it has been partnering with major donor such as DFID, USAID and EU. The SORADI dedication in this area has helped aid programmes to be more effectively implemented in Somaliland than other polities in the region. Through the years SORADI has conducted over 950 monitoring sorties since the inception of such methodology In Somaliland.

Advanced and Specializing Trainings

SORADI has a long experience conducting trainings different stages and angles of its development from 2009 - in line with needs national development programs and interventions, through collaborations with multilateral and international academic institutions. SORADI conducted Social Research and Project Cycle Management post-graduate courses from 2019 for participants from Government, CSO, INGOs & private sector.

Third Party Monitoring

In Partnership with IBTCI, SORADI has been involved in the verification and monitoring of USAID and DFID funded projects undertaken by their Implementing Partners (IPs). These projects include: - GEEL (Growth, Enterprise, Employment and Livelihoods) Program by RTI International - BUILD (Bringing Unity, Integrity, and Legitimacy to Democracy) Program by Creative Associates - TIS+(Transitional Initiative for Stabilization) by Development Alternatives Inc. (DAI) - SEEDS (School Environment & Education Development for Somalia) Program By Mercy Corps - SYLI (Somali Youth Leaders Initiative) Program by Mercy Corps - PEG (Partnership for Economic Growth) Program by DAI - Joint Health and Nutrition Program (JHNP) by UNFPA - Health Consortium Somalia by Tropical Health and Education Trust (THET) - Police Reform Project by ASI - Juvenile Justice Program by Horizon Institute - Capacity Survey Project by Mott Macdonald - Somaliland Development Fund (SDF) by Mott Macdonald - Strengthening Somali Governance (SSG) by Chemonics - Somali Core Economic Institutions and Opportunities Program (SCORE) by CARE - Somalia/Somaliland Towards Reaching Resilience (STORRE) by CARE International - Food for Peace (FFP) and OFDA Projects.

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