From proposal to Implementation: The legal, institutional, and civic architecture of Somalia’s two-year technocratic transition

By Dr. Abdirahman Mohamed Abdi Hashi, PhD, CPA

Somalia: The way forward: Fourteen years later – Phase II

The first paper, Somalia: The Way Forward — Fourteen Years Later , established the moral, constitutional, and political case for a two-year technocratic transition. It argued that Somalia cannot continue recycling indirect 4.5 politics, nor can it credibly rush into one-person-one-vote elections without the institutional, security, judicial, and electoral foundations required to make such elections meaningful. The paper also insisted that a genuine technocratic transition cannot be “4.5 in disguise,” cannot be controlled by political appointees selected through clan arithmetic, and must instead be rooted in qualification, law, neutrality, public trust, and accountability. [1]

This second paper moves from diagnosis to design. Its purpose is to answer the implementation question most likely to determine whether the proposal can become politically viable: