{"id":2246,"date":"2021-04-19T09:48:07","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T13:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cifp\/?p=2246"},"modified":"2025-08-13T10:28:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T14:28:50","slug":"policy-project-vote-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cifp\/2021\/policy-project-vote-somalia\/","title":{"rendered":"Policy Project VOTE Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Policy Project VOTE Somalia\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cifp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/Policy-Project-VOTE-Somalia-.pdf\">Policy Project VOTE Somalia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">The stalled Somalia 2021 elections have the potential to worsen Somalia\u2019s protracted conflict. The inability of the Federal Government of Somalia (FGS) to hold a secure and legitimate election is worsening clan divides and providing Al-Shabaab an opportunity to advance its position in the southern region of Somalia, which presents a significant risk of further regional destabilization. Though Somalia has shown modest human development gains and economic growth over recent years, election-instigated violence risks undoing these improvements. Moreover, a credible election is a necessary step in mitigating the protracted conflict that Somalia has experienced since the 1990s. Accordingly, V.O.T.E Somalia (Verified, Observed &amp; Trusted Elections &#8211; Somalia) is a low-cost, low-risk, and high-reward project designed to support Somalia in holding its overdue 2021 election. This project proposal addresses the logistics of the project design, pre-project risk assessment, operational decisions, and post-project impact. In collaboration with Global Affairs Canada (GAC) and CANADEM, the project aims to facilitate fair, transparent, robust, and sustainable elections for years to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Policy Project VOTE Somalia The stalled Somalia 2021 elections have the potential to worsen Somalia\u2019s protracted conflict. The inability of the Federal Government of Somalia (FGS) to hold a secure and legitimate election is worsening clan divides and providing Al-Shabaab an opportunity to advance its position in the southern region of Somalia, which presents a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,10,1,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-methodology-reports","category-failed-and-fragile-states-reports-and-briefs","category-news","category-recent-reports"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cifp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cifp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cifp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cifp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cifp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2246"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cifp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2248,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cifp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246\/revisions\/2248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cifp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cifp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cifp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}