Development & Innovative Ideas

[Rambie]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsUYYfwleyU

I'll build one in Oog.

[TheFuturist]

All we need is several reservoirs along the Togdheer river, and several more in the Guban range, which could supply those whole regions for several months

The Futurist

I get what you're on about, but all of that takes a lot of money the government doesn't have. The dry river beds in Somaliland have become dumping zones. It will take a major environmental impact assessment followed by rehabilitation of the land before water that passes through can be consumed. Then to build sophisticated systems that take into account flow rates, elevations etc... we're talking hundreds of millions of dollars, if not more.

Somaliland really needs to make a major economical gain through either the port or minerals and oil. The status quo really needs to change.

btw reer hebel will claim the tog and demand his tol to regulate the reservoirs

That's nonsense. Somalis have been building berkads since time immemorial, without "sophisticated systems.. flow rates... elevations". Even if it won't function in an optimal way, building a few big berkads will surely be better than the current situation where people are being fed with foreign donations. Are you telling me the government can't build 10 big berkads?

As for money, SL government apparently had a budget of $251m in 2015. Unless they are lying, they could quite easily use 10% of that ($25m) each year for large scale development projects, it would significantly boost the country's development. When I say projects I'm not talking about useless roads to dried out villages in the middle of nowhere that contribute nothing the the country, but im talking about factories, solar plants, tanneries, abattoirs, fishing fleets, freezing facilities, flour mills etc. Even 2 or 3 projects a year would be massive progress. Im not asking for skyscrapers or 5 lane motorways here, im talking about slaughterhouses and a few solar panels.

Take for example the new mechanised Burao slaughterhouse with modern freezing facilities. It is effectively 4 walls and a roof, with a few machines and large freezers inside. It can't have cost more than $100,000. Are you telling me the government cant fund the construction of 10 or 20 of these slaughterhouses and freezer lorries?

[soonoqoda]

shuraako invests with a lot of people who have ideas that relate to agriculture and production of food

their youtube channel has so many videos of people who have benefited from it

i think some of the ideas on here should be submitted to them and they will privde financial support

this is their wesbite: http://shuraako.org/

inshallah i'm going to invest in some solar energy to convert small towns to be dependent and self reliant

[KingMJ]

^^ Solar energy will be very useful for the small tuulo

[Futurist]

Looks like the gov of SL is finally taking my advice. Dams are now being built to capture the Rivers of the North.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7cxMvGSmkQ

We need to better utilise the "rivers of the north" that stretch from the Gacan Libaax & Sheekh mountains to beyond Daallo & Las Surad... every year millions of litres of water run off into the Gulf of Berbera. We can capture that water, store it and utilise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smUHvx8b_XQ

[Futurist]

A clear case to reform and strengthen the civil service.

The SNDP reported serious weaknesses in civil service staffing. Thirteen percent of staff were over retirement age or absent from their posts, and 17 percent of a sample of staff (in the Ministries of Planning, Finance, Justice, Aviation and Labor) failed a test of competency and were put on training programs provided by the Civil Service Institute (CSI). Following these findings, a presidential decree of December 2010 instructed the Civil Service Commission (CSC) and the Civil Service Reform Ministerial Steering Committee (CSR MC)3 to implement civil service reforms adopted by the Cabinet. Currently, aspects of the reforms are under way.

The GoS embarked upon a major effort to strengthen the civil service by bringing in new staff, with numbers increased by 30 percent from 2010 to 2011, and a further significant expansion over 2011 to 2013. The Ministry of Finance nearly doubled its total staff between 2012 and 2013, especially in the professional/ managerial grade, where numbers tripled with the hiring of a batch of university graduates, mostly in accounting, economics, and information technology (IT), largely to boost the tax and customs inspectorate. A similar increase took place at the Ministry of Justice, where the number of legal professionals tripled between 2011 and 2014. The ministries responsible for agriculture and industry doubled their staff over 2009 to 2013, again with emphasis at the professional level. Other ministries, such as the Ministry of Fisheries, have reported similar increases, and the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications increased its staff by over 50 percent. While increases in the civil service professional or paraprofessional complement are essential to the conduct of government in Somaliland, the new hires are largely inexperienced in the particular sector to which they have been allocated, and a major capacity building exercise is needed going forward.

The Bank’s 2013 Public Expenditure Review (PER) also reported on a number of key weaknesses. It noted that informality of decision making together with ad hoc changes in the structure of ministries were leading to uncertainty in government operations and budgeting. Confusion between government ministries in relation to their scope of responsibilities has also been exacerbated by informal change in ministry mandates. A need for better coordination among ministries has been brought into focus particularly because of the establishment of new ministries spinning off from “parents” (such as the Industry and Water ministries, which have taken over roles previously managed by the ministries of commerce/Industry and Mineral Resources/Energy). This has created additional funding challenges. For instance, the Ministry of Industry, newly formed in 2012 with an important role in private sector development, has yet to receive substantive resources.

[Futurist]

A clear case to introduce a national payment system that links all financial institutions together.

A National Payment System (NPS) infrastructure (payment clearing and settlement system) is not in place in Somaliland. The BoS does not yet have plans to build such a system or provide the services or infrastructure needed to enable financial institutions to communicate through a messaging and routing platform to transmit and reconcile payment orders, establish final positions, and settle accounts (by the debiting and crediting of accounts) among financial institutions.

In the absence of a NPS, financial institutions currently offering payment services in Somaliland operate as closed-loop systems, where each entity operates its own payment system without being interconnected to others. When financial institutions in a market are not linked through such a central platform, they are not able to process payments efficiently among each other. As a result, all payments must be processed in cash, which is extremely inefficient, resource intensive, and much more risky.

The lack of financial supervision and regulation in Somaliland prevents foreign financial institutions from meeting obligations of their home jurisdiction that require financial institutions with which they do business to: (a) implement internal AML/CFT control systems; (b) be effectively supervised and regulated by a responsible authority for compliance with AML/CFT laws and regulations; and (c) be subject to measures that effectively mitigate AML/CTF risks in their own institution.

[GalliumerianSlayer]

Grow sorghum and Pearl Millet throughout the north, along with Date palms.

Farming/Fishing are the way of the future, we shouldn't be solely dependent on livestock. Also industralise the region, open a leather making factory, textiles such as the former one in the south (kacaan era), cheese/yoghurt/milk factories, etc...

Be self sufficient

[Futurist]

SL has massive water resources that run off into the Gulf of Aden every year from Somaliland's highlands.

[Futurist]

Berbera Public Libary opening very soon

[Futurist]

Hargeisa Public Libary opening very soon

[Futurist]

First book delivery

[Futurist]

[Futurist]

Fully functional supreme court of SL

[Futurist]