{"id":16224,"date":"2025-03-18T21:56:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T21:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=16224"},"modified":"2025-03-22T10:01:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T10:01:54","slug":"somalia-launches-five-year-national-transformation-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2025\/03\/18\/somalia-launches-five-year-national-transformation-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia launches five-year national transformation plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MOGADISHU &#8212;<\/strong> Somalia has officially launched a five-year strategic plan aimed at accelerating the country&#8217;s progress in economic growth, good governance and environmental resilience.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The National Transformation Plan (NTP 2025-2029) seeks to advance Somalia&#8217;s social development, the Ministry of Planning, Investment and Economic Development said in a statement issued during the launch in Mogadishu on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the ministry, the strategy aligns with Somalia&#8217;s Centennial Vision 2060 and aims to establish a peaceful, democratic and economically thriving nation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Minister of Planning, Investment and Economic Development Mohamud Abdirahman Sheikh Farah said that the NTP &#8220;reflects the aspirations of the Somali people and lays the foundation for a resilient, prosperous, and self-reliant Somalia.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The NTP 2025-2029 will replace the National Development Plan 2020-2024, recognizing the need for a strategic shift from traditional development approaches to large-scale national transformation, the ministry said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The plan is structured around four key pillars: strengthening inclusive governance, the rule of law, public sector efficiency, and security reforms; fostering economic diversification, infrastructure development, trade facilitation, and private sector growth; enhancing education, healthcare, and social protection while empowering women, youth, and persons with disabilities; and addressing climate change challenges, disaster risk reduction, and sustainable environmental management.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ministry said the NTP was developed through extensive consultations with federal member states, private sector stakeholders, civil society organizations, academia, and international partners.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: Xinhua\u00a0 \u00a0Origin: <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/english.news.cn\/africa\/20250318\/c9eb93b224dc45da81127586d1af916b\/c.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener sponsored ugc noreferrer\">view original<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU &#8212; Somalia has officially launched a five-year strategic plan aimed at accelerating the country&#8217;s progress in economic growth, good governance and environmental resilience. The National Transformation Plan (NTP 2025-2029) seeks to advance Somalia&#8217;s social development, the Ministry of Planning, Investment and Economic Development said in a statement issued during the launch in Mogadishu on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-development","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16226,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16224\/revisions\/16226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}