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 An initial mapping exercise carried out by the PDRC/NSA team at the time, had recognized 7 distinctive categories of non-state actors (NSAs) in Puntland. The study revealed that these non-state actors provided substantial services throughout Puntland.
The team had also identified the levels of their capacities as well as incapacities, particularly in the fields of relationship maintenance, administrative and management competences. Because these factors were recognized as challenges to the functionalities of these non-state actors, PDRC had designed a number of capacity building programs aimed to strengthen and upgrade the capacities of these non-state actors for better performance and better coordination. Consequently, on the 14th of May 2008 PDRC conducted a consultative workshop which formulated 49 PUNSAA General Assembly members from the 102 representatives who were invited from all Puntland regions. Inspired by the completion of this first PUNSAA structuring, a 3-day PUNSAA-GA meeting was held on the 5th -7th of July, 2008 at PDRC Conference Hall in which all 49 PUNSAA General Assembly members as well as other dignified guests such as lawyers, members from the House of Representatives, Ministries and Traditional elders. The main objective of the 1st PUNSAA GA meeting was to complete the general structure and all necessary sub-committees as well as administrative/secretariat organs of PUNSAA by identifying individuals from the GA who would take these structural positions, in order to create an institution that officially represented all NSA organization in Puntland. Some of the specific objectives that were set to be achieved during the 3-day meeting included approving and validating the PUNSAA by-laws; electing the PUNSAA chair and deputy persons; electing 15 BOD members of PUNSAA; the formation of the 4 PUNSAA supporting committees and the nomination of a PUNSAA treasurer and general secretary. All of the above-mentioned goals and results were achieved during the workshop. An evaluation conducted at the end of the 3-day workshop revealed that participants were, on average, more than content with the methodical approach the meeting employed, the facilitation and material, the elections process used as well as the overall achievements of results of the first ever conducted PUNSAA GA meeting .
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