Earlier on this is worded as ‘Building good governance and guaranteed democracy that centers on the customs and knowledge of pastoralist communities’ (p.32).

This sectoral strategy is justified on the basis of the following premises:

1. the three basic foundations of democracy — awareness of democratic ideals and values, democratic institutions, and conditions for democracy — are not strong in pastoral areas;
2. ‘though there are indigenous democratic practices and institutions in pastoral areas, since they are not integrated and harmonized with the modern organizational and procedural systems they could not contribute to the democratic system building’;
3. ‘Good governance problem is more prevalent in pastoral areas than other places. Public service in these areas is not efficient and effective’;
4. ‘the major deficiency regard is lack of awareness and active participation on democratic ideals and values in the community’;
5. ‘The other stumbling block that has impeded the building of good governance and democracy is the human resource and leadership allocation practice that is becoming prevalent especially in pastoral areas that only considers clan and ethnic affiliation rather than skill and knowledge. This practice has resulted in preventing educated youth from contributing to the development agenda and is becoming a governance problem’.

The strategy is described as designed to act on these premises with the following measures:

1. strengthening formal democratic institutions in pastoral areas;
2. developing conditions of democracy in pastoral areas;
3. undertaking capacity building to strengthen good governance and make public service more efficient and effective;
4. strengthening ‘peoples’ participation and sense of ownership by creating associations and working procedures in pastoral woredas, kebeles, and development centers’;
5. collecting and analyzing and expanding ‘indigenous practices’ that ‘could be to lessons to modern good governance and democracy system building’;
6. promoting leadership that is ‘open minded and freed from narrow ethnic and clan affiliation and see[s] all citizens equally, judge[s] them on the basis of their skill and knowledge only; and ensure[s] implementation of the rule of law’.

a. Raise the awareness of the people on democratic ideals and values (p.68) »