About Civil Service Strengthening Project (CSSP)
Somaliland’s unique development trajectory has evolved out of a process of more than twenty years of grassroots peace-building and state-building, forged in relative isolation from other development contexts characterizing the region. Over time, a complex and resilient institutional structure has taken shape in which modern institutions, traditional and religious authorities, the private sector and civil society work together in order to effectively ensure peace, stability, freedom against piracy and terrorism, economic growth, the delivery of basic services, the protection of livelihoods and social development. Civil service reform remains a priority of the Government of Somaliland (GoSL) and has been identified as a key priority in the Somaliland Special Arrangement (SSA). 
 
 
The Somaliland Special Arrangement, a separate and distinct part of the Somali Compact, lays out a way forward for institutionalizing ongoing Somaliland processes and initiatives within an overarching and equal partnership between the Somaliland government, its people, and the international community. The third priority under Peacebuilding and State-building Goal (PSG) 5: Revenue and Services are to create a merit-based and equitably-distributed civil service that delivers high-quality basic services and security for all Somaliland citizens. To deliver on this priority, the Government of Somaliland (GoSL), together with the World Bank and its other development partners, endorsed the Somaliland Civil Service Strengthening Project (CSSP) as the vehicle to support human resource and institutional capacity improvement in targeted government ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs).
 
 
 
 
 
Project Objective
Project objective is strengthening basic function for payroll, human resources and policy management in selected central agencies and line ministries. 
 
 
Project Implementation Dates
     Project Start Date: 03-10-2016            
     Project End Date: 30-06-2021
 
 
Project Implementing Agency
       
CSC will be the main implementing agency of the project and will collaborate with key central agencies to implement different components
 
 
 
Project Beneficiaries
All the Ministries, Departments and Agencies of the Somaliland Government are the beneficiaries of the project. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Project Components 
 
Component 1: Strengthening Policies, Procedures and systems for civil service Management
Component 2: Reorganization in Targeted MDA
Component 3: Strengthening Policy Management and Capabilities at the of Center Government
Component 4: Project Management