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NCF will have a Board of Directors consisting of (7) seven members, and an Executive Director who shall be an ex-officio member with a non-voting status. The Chairperson, the Executive Director, Secretary, and Treasurer, may sign the checks or drafts of NCF.
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Problem definition
After the ugly civil war the reconciliation of the warring parties and the reconciliation of all the various antagonists [communities, clans, sub clans, etc.] is imperative
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Somalis are not different from other societies in that none could meet its basic collective needs without an effective public power. While this is uniform across the modern world, the imperative is greatest among late developing and, therefore, brittle societies. The state is not and cannot be everything but its absence is a form of acute social homelessness. The condition of the past fifteen years testifies to the cost of having no national governance. Another decade or more of the present situation is a horrible option to contemplate – Somalia will sink deeper into further retailing of identities, physical and material insecurity, and international irrelevance, contempt, and abuse.
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Challenges
There have been impressive successes scored in the education sector since the devastation of the civil war. Enormous challenges, however, still remain and cannot be all addressed in a paper of this nature. Among the challenges are the following:
a. Access
Access to education is one of the biggest challenges for the Somali society due to the limited number of available service providers and lack of affordability that resulted from the economic and security situations. Even with the limited available educational institutions unbalanced distribution persists in urban vs. rural, general vs. technical education, and gender disparities in education.
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The Root Causes of Insecurity
- Spread of arms in the hands of the populace all over the country
- Lack of reconciliation among the warring factions
- Consistent looting and misappropriation of properties belonging to innocent civilians
- Poverty, joblessness and economic hardship in both urban and rural areas
- Lack of education for the youth
- Grievances and mistrust among the clans resulting from the civil war
- Naturally occurring drought generally causes sever shortage of water and pasture in rural areas, thus creating an environment conducive to violence
- Lack of law and order