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political party development, participants struggled in the strategy workshops to differentiate
between the different concepts in their actual work. For example, some participants only
viewed activism in the context of elections. To preserve as much of the Somalilander
participant points of view and to ensure that participants discussed their priorities with similar
understandings of the categories of party work, these were combined.
The lower level boxes in yellow identify sub-categories of political party influences (such as
culture and tradition) and roles and responsibilities related to each of the major categories.
These are general headings and as such comprise a number of different party interests and
activities.
Political party priorities discussed in the following section are organized by these categories and
subcategories. Some subcategories are not discussed; those that are not discussed were not
mentioned at all by workshop participants or to a significant degree by interviewees.
Political Party Priorities for Democratization
Political party priorities for democratization are based on individual interviews and one-day
strategy workshops held individually with each of the three political parties: Kulmiye, Waddani
and UCID. Leadership from each political party, including women and youth, participated in
the interviews and workshops.
Political party representatives were relatively consistent in their views, priorities, and
challenges, apart from expected differences, such as the fact that Waddani did not discuss at
length its legislative representation given that it will compete in parliamentary elections for the
first time in 2015.
Parties, as a whole, prioritized the categories of party development in the following way:
1.
Internal organizational capacity
2.
Political communication, policy and platform development
3.
Enabling environment
4.
Legislative representation
5.
Elections, political activism and advocacy
Political party participants, through interviewees, strategy workshop outputs and discussions,
prioritized different subcategories of party influences and roles and responsibilities. The
prioritized subcategories are highlighted below with red boxes:
