Protocol Establishing the Somali National Constituent Assembly

This protocol establishes the National Constituent Assembly (NCA), to be selected by the Traditional Leaders. The mandate of the NCA (825 delegates) was to consider and vote to provisionally adopt the draft Provisional Constitution. The NCA was to be dissolved after such mandate. This protocol describes the required qualifications of the delegates, required gender quota and structures and procedures of the NCA. Keywords: Legal Framework, Terms of Reference, Constitution-Making Bodies, Constituent Assembly, Organization of Constitution-Making Bodies, Membership, Mandate/ Terms of Reference (Sample), Rules of Procedure (Sample), Example.