SOMALIA, NATIONAL
Training and Empowerment for Participatory Decision-Making
- Hub

- Activity
- Model
- Ethnic community
- Actors
- Citizenship and communities
- Women
- Youth
- Marginalized communities
- Rural communities
- Civil society and intermediaries
- Public Sector
- Purpose
- Citizen empowerment and capacity building
- Citizen empowermen
- Civi capacity building
- Deliberative Skills
#CIVICCAPACITIES / #COMMUNITYEMPOWERMENT
The main objective of this practice, led by FT Foundation, is to empower youth, women, displaced people, and other marginalized groups in Somalia to actively participate in decision-making and development planning. In a context of political instability and structural exclusion, the initiative aims to strengthen leadership capacities, create economic opportunities, and promote inclusion in political and community spaces.
Based on surveys of recent graduates, the organization identified key barriers such as unemployment and unequal access to participation spaces. To address these, FT Foundation implements training programs in skills development, leadership, and entrepreneurship, facilitates access to formal employment, and supports community-led initiatives.
- Training in leadership, entrepreneurship, and civic skills
- Inclusion of people with disabilities, internally displaced persons, and unemployed youth
- Promotion of public debate and local policy influence
- Dissemination of messages through traditional and digital media
- Generation of job opportunities as a means of empowerment
- Increased participation of marginalized groups in community and political processes
- Greater visibility of the demands of women, youth, and displaced populations in public agendas
- Expanded access to employment and development of technical skills
- Strengthening of an inclusive civic culture in complex settings
KEY CONCEPTS
Contextual: Political instability, social exclusion, youth unemployment, forced displacement.
On Democracy: Inclusive participation, community empowerment, civic education, transformative leadership.

