A region cannot build what it has no one trained to build.
Roads, clinics, water systems, power lines and factories all need engineers, technicians, nurses and tradespeople. The Somali Region does not yet produce enough of them. Only 10 of its 99 districts have a technical college, against 40 percent of districts nationally, and the colleges that exist fill about a third of their places. Linking what is taught to what employers in the region need is an unfinished task.
Our role in human capital.
A region cannot build roads, clinics, water systems or factories without people trained to design, build and maintain them. SEED works with the region’s universities, technical colleges and employers to close the gap between what is taught and what is needed, to raise the quality of teaching, and to keep the region’s most talented graduates working at home. Our measure of success is not enrollment but employment and the work that skilled people go on to do.
Technology and AI
Technology lets a technician, a nurse or an engineer learn and practise far beyond what the region’s classrooms alone can offer, and lets expertise from anywhere in the world reach a student in Jigjiga or Gode.
Research and publishing
We study what works in human capital in the Somali Region, evaluate our own work independently, and publish the findings openly for the public and for regional and federal government. About our research →
A skilled Somali professional class that builds and runs the region’s own infrastructure and institutions.