Platform

Introduction

Our party is prepared to meet the challenges that are facing our country at this difficult time. We are confident that we will be able to unite and rebuild Somalia and its international reputation. Somalia, after an era of wars and lawlessness, it must set itself to significant tasks and higher goals to secure our nation. Tiir has the vision and leadership to unite our nation and solve the current problems in Somalia. We believe Somalia’s conflicts can only be solved by Somali leadership, and that Somalia belongs to its people.

Our policy is to observe and maintain our people’s interests and provide them with a peaceful atmosphere for living. Tiir understands the culture and faith of our people and the politics of the world and has the ability to provide a bridge between the two. The leadership of this party consists of members of the Somali youth, scholars, educators, intellectuals, business-owners, parents and poets. We have all come together to find solutions for Somalia.

This is the party of freedom and fairness and it is your party. The need of our nation is reflected in this platform. We ask for the support and participation of all who share our political agenda. In one-way or another, every member of this party is a visionary; we can envision a process to reconcile and end the suffering of our people.

Problems

Since the collapse of our country, our people have experienced many crises. According to the United Nations and human rights watchdogs, there were thousands of killings, rapes and displaced civilians in Somalia. Ever since then, our people have been dying of starvation, lack of clean water, lack of proper medical assistance and diseases. Over the years, the situation in Somalia deteriorated day after day and still continues because there is no functioning government, neither is there strong leadership that is working in the interest of our people and country.

It is obvious that Somalia needs a political party that understands the way to solve current problems and open new opportunities. This Party decided to stand up for our people’s rights and restore the country peacefully. Our aim is to rescue our people from the hands of self-interest groups, whether they are Somalis or non-Somalis; restore our people’s international image, dignity and functioning government in Somalia.

Leadership

Tiir leadership offers commitments to finding solutions and making Somalia a peaceful nation where justice prevails. We will preserve the interests of our people in Somalia and elsewhere. We will keep this fundamental commitment to the Somali citizens of today and tomorrow. Tiir offers a new direction, new approach and new ideas to lead our nation with one clear vision. We believe that liberty comes from opportunity; opportunity comes from development; and development comes from progress and wealth. Tiir is committed to eleven principles to make our culture stronger and sustain our nation: family, faith, personal responsibility and respect for the dignity of every human life. We offer our nation not only a new political agenda, but also new opportunities with an objective of creating a welcoming society in which all Somalis have a place.

Tribalism and Nationalism

Tiir is committed to wipe out the harmful effects of tribalism and promote tolerance, respect and collaboration. We will work to return our country’s beauty and renew commitment to our neighboring countries. Tiir wants to move our nation forward from an era of destructive tribalism because we learned from our history that it is not in the best interest of our people and country. As we all know, tribalism has divided our people, destroyed our country and created problems that have influenced the lives of all Somalis. Tiir will work to promote common-interest nationalism and unity to eradicate tribalism and self-interest groups. We believe, for every Somali there must be steps of opportunity and for those most in need, a safety net of care. Tiir understands that it is the fundamental right of our people to have public safety, law and order and a functioning government. We will be working from our empathy for our people to establish a network by connecting families-to-families, counties-to-counties and states-to-states.

Economics and Taxation

We will design a comprehensive and competitive economy for recovery and growth, so that the people and the country can have the opportunity to develop steady income and development. This economy will be systematically designed to be realistic, balanced and fair to all citizens. We will build national financial institutions around the country to promote quality and quantity of our monetary system. We will work with private financial institutions to further develop a strategic plan to deal with Somalia’s damaged economy. We will support development of legal businesses, institutions and corporations around the country. We will attempt to attract foreign businesses, corporations and investors. We believe supporting private businesses and developing jobs is the fundamental cornerstone of our economy.

Our party believes that private businesses create jobs and make our country a land of opportunity. We will end the harassment of private businesses. Tiir wants insure the safety of private businesses because we respect their honest judgment on how to operate. We will create a national taxation system that will sustain our nation’s prosperity and financial security. Taxation is one of Somalia’s problems and the reason why Somalia has not achieved a functioning government.

Government

Tiir will implement a functioning government that will work in the best interests of our people and country; and such government is to be elected by its people. Tiir will honor, protect and respect the voices of our citizens and establish a government that is transparent, fair, sincere, professional, reliable, accountable and committed to its constituents’ initiatives.

Tiir will establish a government that represents its citizens and works in their best interests. This party will endorse a government that will give opportunities to every Somali who wants to participate in politics and elections. Tiir will establish a federal government based on a democratic system which will allow Somalia to have governments at all levels; national, regional, county and city.

Equality and Justice

Tiir understands that in order for democracy to occur in Somalia; there has to be equality and justice in place to protect and preserve all the rights and liberties of our citizens. Our main objective is to achieve equality and justice in Somalia. We believe that it is imperative to resolve and end the injustice that has been taking place in Somalia as soon as possible.

Tiir is determined to move our people forward from the current injustice and protect their rights and personal liberties. Our long historical tradition has demonstrated excellence in values during social conflict; we have always respected women, children, elders, traditional leaders and the environment; however, in the recent years, our nation has moved away from some of the qualities that make us great, but we have learned some important lessons.

The key is to acknowledge the mistakes, learn from them, fix them and move forward. In order to restore justice and equality, we will educate our people; we need to start at the grassroots level throughout the country. Our party will open new doors to justice and equality for all Somalis which will give them equal opportunities for politics, business, health, education and civil rights.

Individual Rights

Our nation continues to suffer widespread violations of human rights including but not limited to the following acts: murder, rape, looting, destruction of property, child soldiers, kidnapping, discrimination against minorities, torture, female genital mutilation and unlawful arrests. Therefore, we oppose any discrimination based on gender, tribe, age or disability, and we will strongly put into practice anti-discrimination laws. We will promote our nation’s expectation of equal opportunity for career, politics and education. Tiir deems individual rights and responsibilities are the foundation of free society. Protecting our citizens’ rights and their liberties will be the first priority of this party.

We have the plan to make our country the most peaceful country in the world. We are committed to work hard to unite our people and ready to open new opportunities for our people to make them strong socially, politically, culturally, economically and morally. Tiir believes that families are the heart of society. Therefore, we believe that it is the fundamental responsibility to improve family lives in order to make our nation stronger.

Education

Tiir will not allow a child in Somalia to be denied of the opportunity to have access to educational institutions based on his/her tribe, gender or age. We will work for better results to give every child in our country a high quality, world-class education, and we are determined to meet that goal. It’s our objective to offer our children today and tomorrow the key testimony: strong parental involvement, excellent teachers, protected and orderly classrooms, high academic standards and promise to teach excellent skills from an early start education to mastery of computer technology.

Somalia leadership has failed to support educational principles but under the Tiir leadership, we will put in place educational principles from day one. We believe nothing is more important than our language, while many children have trouble reading, writing and speaking their native language, we believe this problem must be addressed at all grade levels. To solve that problem, we encourage parents and children to work together with teachers to help our youth improve their ability to learn our language and transfer our language to the next generation. We want to restore literacy and the teaching of our language.

We will recognize that under the Somali constitution, education will be a state, local and family responsibility, not only federal duty. We support that state and local governments should be taking the responsibility to improve schools, and the role of the federal government should be increasingly limited as we return control to parents, teachers, and local school boards and state officials. Somalia needs qualified teachers to improve the quality of its educational system. We believe that qualified teachers with mastery of their skills and sincere commitment to their students will prepare well-educated students who will compete in the world and make our nation great.

Healthcare

Tiir believes that everyone in Somalia should have quality healthcare available to them. We will design a healthcare system that will give everyone the opportunity to get affordable healthcare. Our efforts to build healthier citizens will begin with women, elderly and children. Our nation strongly needs to support the needs of women who have been historically ignored by not receiving the proper medical care and denied access to the appropriate level of medical treatment.

Across our country and at all levels of government, Tiir will be the leading authority in developing healthcare institutions targeted specifically to meet the needs of women, elderly and children. We will stay committed and place a high priority on finding a cure for HIV/AIDS with the massive increase in resources and responsibility to maintain the highest ethical standards. We will work with patients, healthcare providers and researchers to create new healthcare system for dealing with these challenges.

Agriculture

Our nation faces extreme poverty and it’s constantly ranked among the lowest countries in the world in terms of human development, malnourishment and life expectations. Therefore, our party will invest in the agricultural system to make farmers and producers extremely productive because they are the heart of our economic growth. We will support farmers to produce all types of crops, fruits and vegetables to be the daily source of our nation’s economic output. We believe that when agriculture is hurting, the entire country aches. Tiir will give full support to farmers to make sure they have free choices for their productions. We believe as long as they have truly fair and open, domestic and foreign markets, they can help our national economy better than any government. Tiir leadership will promote free and fair market for all legal agriculture owners and will encourage production.

Infrastructure

Rebuilding Somalia’s highways, roads, bridges, public institutions, railroads, and restoring rivers/lakes will be the first priority of this party. It is our commitment to establish high quality infrastructure that connects house to house, business to business and region to region to make our people’s lives easier. We will make public institutions such as libraries, public schools and universities available to our people and we will support and he