Somali Identification Team Meets with World Bank Officials

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Von

With blood and Iron will we reach the fatherland
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Nairobi, 03 July, 2018; Dr. Nur Dirie Hersi Fursade, Chief Strategist in the Office of the President of Somalia and Head the Digital ID Program, met with senior World Bank officials and development partners to brief them on a new government-led program, which aims to provide identification for all Somalis.

The Somali National Identity Program, the first of its kind for Somalia, will attempt to implement a foundational identification system based on biometric data. The National ID systems designed to be the nucleus of a new national identification infrastructure and will act an entry point for service delivery for Somali authorities, civil society, development partners and the private sector.

“The Somali Government is rapidly developing governance structures that will be able to respond to citizen needs”, said Dr. Nur Dirie Hersi Fursade, Chief Strategists in the Office of the President of Somalia. “Parallel to these developments, we need to make sure that Somali citizens and eligible residents are provided with identification credentials, which will enable access to vital services including aid and money transfer services. Implemented in this way, the new ID system acts as an effective and neutral entry point for addressing the effects of the global de-risking agenda by the Somali authorities”.

Somalia has never had a centralized identification system for its citizens and eligible residents, though decentralized manual identification systems were operational in local municipalities prior to 1991.

The new ID system aims to promote linkages with delivery of services by the private sector, link IDs with electronic Know Your Customer (KYC) verification in the financial sector and coordinate social protection programs such as unconditional cash transfers. IDs would also play a crucial role in security, displacement and democratization processes.

Dr. Nur made a technical presentation to development partners that outlined the envisioned identification infrastructure, legal and regulatory framework, implementation schedule and budget estimations. He stressed that the Office of the President envisions a new federal agency would be established to manage the ID system.

Dr Nur also outlined the details of the recently signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Somali Federal Government and National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) of Pakistan. NADRA brings experience in designing and implementing ID software in a fragile country context, including rural and other hard to reach areas as well as implementation experience in sub-Saharan Africa.

More than 1.1 billion people in the world are unable to prove their identity and therefore lack access to vital services including healthcare, social protection, education and finance. The majority live in Africa and Asia and more than a third are children who are unregistered. The World Bank Group’s senior management has placed strategic importance on Identification for Development (ID4D) and ensures institutional resources are fully leveraged to support the agenda.

“The World Bank’s global role in Identification for Development, the institution’s current analytical work on foundational IDs in Somalia, and ultimately its strong role in Somali state-building, places them in a unique position to support a universal identification system in Somalia”, said Dr. Nur.

Dr. Nur and his team proposed the World Bank’s role in the Somali National Identity Program, which would include having the Bank support the Federal Government in convening stakeholders, and providing technical assistance to support project team on customization and implementation of the NADRA system.

Among the attendees of the meeting were World Bank Group, DFID, EU, Norway, Denmark and USAID.
 

Saalax Bidaar

Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness
Hopefully no identification will be issued to non Somalis. There should be thorough process to identify pure Somalis from Sheegatos in our midst
 

Von

With blood and Iron will we reach the fatherland
Oromos can claim langaab clans and even bribe the langaab clans to incorporate them.
Just goes to show that the FGS needs to control the whole country and reward those who rat out Oromos/illegal foreigners.
 
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Saalax Bidaar

Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness
Just goes to show that the FGS needs to control the whole control and reward those who rat out Oromos/illegal foreigners.
Foreigners entering the country unchecked should be elevated as national security threat. Al Shabab are Somalis with wrong ideology but these illegal immigrants are threatening to shift the demographics and possibly replace us. That is more dangerous than anything I can think of
 

Von

With blood and Iron will we reach the fatherland
Foreigners entering the country unchecked should be elevated as national security threat. Al Shabab are Somalis with wrong ideology but these illegal immigrants are threatening to shift the demographics and possibly replace us. That is more dangerous than anything I can think of
In my humble opinion, most of Al Shabab are Kenyans, Tanzanians and other foreigners who cant freely express their destructive ideology back home so they come to Somalia where they can. Leadership-wise its Somali with Somali-Bantu and foreign Bantus as soldiers.
Simply grab them and deport them, do you think the UN would cry that a bunch of Oromos and Bantus got the kick from Somalia? :ayaanswag:
 

Saalax Bidaar

Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness
In my humble opinion, most of Al Shabab are Kenyans, Tanzanians and other foreigners who cant freely express their destructive ideology back home so they come to Somalia where they can. Leadership-wise its Somali with Somali-Bantu and foreign Bantus as soldiers.
Simply grab them and deport them, do you think the UN would cry that a bunch of Oromos and Bantus got the kick from Somalia? :ayaanswag:

That is your personal opinion, however
Facts state that Al shabab are still very much Somali dominated group in both leadership and regular foot soldiers with some elements of foreign fighters mixed in there.

They operate on internationally installed processor and are similar to other brutally violent groups that exist else I.E Boko Haram.

With all that being said, the Government is actively combating this threat, meanwhile we have neglected the other thread and are dismissive on this potentially dangerous migration crisis flooding into our open and unguarded borders.

They are mostly people who look like us and once they learn language and memorize abtirsi(which is all available online btw)will easily be able to melt Into the population. If that happens, it will tough to sort out who is who.

We must combat this threat before it takes root.

Waa iga talo
 
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