By Goth Mohamed Goth

A high-level delegation Somaliland delegation consisting of top civil servants arrived in the on Thursday arrived in the city of Frankfurt in the Federal Republic of Germany.

The delegation led Hon Abdi Osman Minister for Planning and National Development (MoP&ND) by has being invited the Federal Republic of Germany Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), based in Bonn for a study tour for the project “Rehabilitation of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET)”.

They shall also have the discuss issues relating to economic development opportunities i.e. industrialization.

The delegation will during the visit tour prestigious Germany government ministries, learning institutions, private companies and meet with both government officials and academicians, etc.

Among the topics that will be discussed are as follows:

  1. Insight into the current situation of vocational education and training in Somaliland (delegation representative)
  2. Presentation of GOVET
  3. Vocational education and training in Germany
  4. The role of the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training
  5. The German system – model and driving force of a labor market-oriented training system at home and abroad

Members of the delegation consisted of:

HON. EX. MR ABDI OSMAN

Minister for Planning and National Development (MoP&ND)

MR ABDIRASHID IBRAHIM ABDIRAHMAN

Director-General for Ministry of Employment Social Affairs and Family (MESAF)

MS HUDDA HUSSEIN AHMED

Program Coordinator and Acting Executive Director for Somaliland Women’s Chamber of Commerce (SWCOC)

MR MUSTAFE MOHAMOUD ALI

Director-General for Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Tourism (MoTIT)

MR IBRAHIM ISMAIL ELMI

Executive Secretary for Somaliland Chamber of Commerce

MR AHMED AWAD FARAH

Director of Employment, Ministry of Employment and Social Affairs (MESAF)

MR ABDIRASHID ABDIRAHMAN HASSAN

Advisor at the Ministry of Education and Science (MoE&S)

MR BARKHAD ABIIB HASSAN

Director of Planning and Development Department for the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Tourism (MoTIT)

MR MUBARIK ABDILLAHI IBRAHIM

Director-General for the Ministry of Planning and National Development (MoP&ND)

MR AHMED ABOKOR MOHAMED

Director-General for the Ministry of Education and Science

MS NAFISA YUSUF MOHAMED

Executive Director NAGAAD Women’s Umbrella Somaliland

MR LIBAN MOHAMED MOHAMOUD

Director Department of Energy – Ministry of Energy and Mineral (MoE&M)

Members of GIZ:

MR MOHAMED HUSSEIN HARUN GIZ TVET

Project Regional Coordinator for Somaliland

 MS UTE RIECKMANN

Head of project “Rehabilitation of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET)”, GIZ