National Development Plan 2020 to 2024.

This ninth National Development Plan (NDP-9) is a 5-year nationwide multi-sectoral document aiming at reducing poverty as overarching objective. The results of the extensive consultations and poverty analysis led NDP-9 to establish the following 4 pillars (1) Inclusive and Accountable Politics; (2) Improved Security and the Rule of Law; (3) Economic Development, with particular emphasis on creating opportunities for women and young people; and (4) Social Development, improving access to health, education and other essential services, including social protection systems. These pillars are the basis to achieve the established national priorities which are (i) political stability; (ii) improved security; and (iii) economic growth. The Government has also identified the following 6 cross-cutting imperatives (1) Strengthen gender and other kinds of social equity; (2) Build the resilience of households, communities and government; (3) Better manage Somalia’s environment and natural resources; (4) Prioritize durable solutions; (5) Strengthen the interface between humanitarian and development planning; (6) Governance. To encourage better production, the Plan focuses on (i) modernizing traditional systems for livestock production to build resilience; (ii) improving the productivity of both irrigated and rainfed farming systems; (iii) developing a legal framework for effective management of fisheries resources and marine environment; (iv) restocking of livestock for nomads. Better nutrition can be guaranteed by (i) scaling-up responses to climate shocks and drought to ensure the most vulnerable received enough quantity and quality food; (ii) ensuring food safety and promoting value addition in livestock products; (iii) promoting more varied dairy and by-products of meat production and consumption, including from poultry; (iv) promoting the development of fish value chains to increase both domestic consumption and export; (v) strengthening the capacity to deliver food, both in times of crisis for vulnerable groups (especially for subsistence farmers, to help keep them in place) and for the poor through plans that include storage, distribution channels, beneficiary registries and quality of food. To create a better environment the proposed strategies are (i) development of a national water policy to regulate internal water management and a Somalia-Ethiopia bilateral agreement on the shared waters; (ii) ensuring that the environmental protection is adequately factored into all the interventions design and implementation included in the Plan; (iii) diversification of the economy to mitigate environmental shocks; (iv) setting of environmental protection measures to reduce deforestation; (v) focus on security and environmental degradation in consideration of the low resilience arising from recurrent conflicts. The target of better life can be achieved by (i) inducing growth in the private sector to broaden and sustain the growth base and provide greater employment opportunities; (ii) improving the resilience of traditional livestock and crop production industries to better meet the growing challenges from climate change; (iii) improving marketing of agricultural input and output and promoting value addition; (iv) strengthening animal health, welfare and nutrition to meet international standards and requirements of importing countries; (v) ensuring the inclusion of vulnerable groups – particularly women, youth and displaced persons – in intervention design and implementation included in the Plan; (vi) create conditions that will require, incentivize and enable currently informal enterprises to engage with and become part of Somalia’s formal economy; (vii) providing health services to the under-served, targeting the most vulnerable; (viii) improving access to clean water and sanitation; and (ix) improving Social Protection.
As for Governance, it is generally necessary to (i) strengthen the administrative and technical capacity of the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation; (ii) develop the administrative and regulatory capacity of the federal and state fisheries institutions; (iii) establish a national (inter-ministerial) commission responsible for the coordination of the food security agenda across government; (iv) establish a national regulatory authority for energy market governance; (v) strengthen governance of petroleum operations passing the relevant laws for the petroleum and minerals sector. As for the implementation strategy, the document suggests to (i) strengthen national to local structures and systems; (ii) ensure the harmonized and quality-assured scaling up of public service delivery through government; (iii) apply area-based approaches; and (iv) focus on the monitoring of development results.