NCF Somali

May 21th 2011 at the Pride Inn Hotel,  Nairobi- Kenya

A considerable number of Somalis working in Somalia for UN agencies and international Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) attended the forum and by 10.00 Am, the facilitator requested one of the participants to open the meeting with a word of prayer. This was followed by orientation time where every participant introduced themselves to the other guests while stating their name and the organization represented.

The facilitator informed the other guests of how the idea of bringing together all the Somalis working in Somalia for UN agencies and international NGOs to an open discussion was born. Initially it was his own thoughts and he felt that it was necessary to exchange ideas and views with these professionals and intellectuals in the NGO world. He thanked NCF for considering his proposal to facilitate the forum. He wished that the local NGOs working and based in Somalia would have participated in the forum.

Nairobi, 29, January 2011, Meridian Hotel

The meeting started with the introduction of NCF organisation that was initiated in 2004, to help the Somali people resolve their problems and workout their differences. NCF works and implements a variety of programmes including political, economic, health and education. NCF conducts annual meeting which takes place in the Horn of Africa countries. It also holds panel discussions and public forums to discuss pertinent issues in Somalia. The theme of this particular meeting was to discuss what will happen after August 2011; that is when the TFG elected term/period ends. The role of the Civil Society in ending the political stalemate after August 2011

June 29th 2011 at the Meridian Hotel, Nairobi - Kenya

The panel discussion commenced shortly after 1.00 pm following an opening prayer. The invited participants were drawn from the business community, media fraternity, women rights lobby groups, intellectuals, Diaspora community and non-governmental organizations.

All the participants having briefly introduced themselves, the executive director of National Civic Forum (NCF) thanked them for honouring the invitation despite the short notice given and apologized for that. After welcoming them, he summarily explained the history of NCF as a non partisan, non- political organization formed by a cohort of scholars  to create an avenue to facilitate the sharing and exchanging of ideas by the Somali civics and scholars with a purpose  of promoting peace-building and reconciliation efforts in Somalia.