December 2013

The International Peace Support Training Centre (IPSTC), which JCCP has been supporting since 2010, launched “Somalia’s Peacebuilding and Conflict Prevention” program in 2013. In this program, JCCP conducted a training needs assessment in the area of peace and security.
Visit to the chief of a prison
From October 29th to November 3rd, JCCP sent a staff to Garowe, Puntland in northern Somalia to conduct field research. The research aimed to assess the level of knowledge and skills of Puntland’s local government, research institutes and civil organizations in areas of conflict prevention and management and nation building after conflict. Based on this, training topics necessary in the future and suitable trainees were identified.
Visit to the Ministry of Labor, Youth and Sport
In Garowe, a Japanese expert from JCCP and a local coordinator visited twelve ministries, research institutes and civil organizations in six days and interviewed 31 experts in total. In consideration of their strategies based on Puntland’s Five-Year Plan (2014 –2018), they identified departments that particularly need to be strengthened and are in need of capable personnel. The result will be analyzed together with the results of similar research in Hargeisa in the north, and Mogadishu in the south; this will be utilized in training programs at IPSTC the following year.