Recent Events

The Horn Economic & Social Policy Institute (HESPI) held a workshop which covered issues that were among the components of a research project conducted for the Secretariat of the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD). The workshop discussed two commissioned studies at the venue on 3 - 4 May 2018. An assessment of status of Warehouse Receipts Systems from three countries in the IGAD region namely Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda was presented, and deeply discussed and…

Institutional Capacity Building  for the Republic of South Sudan 16 - 21 April, 2018 The Horn Economic and Social Policy Institute (HESPI) signed a project agreement in October 2017 with the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF) under the support projects to “Conflict Affected Countries- the Republic of South Sudan”. The project aimed at improving both intra-regional trade and sound economic and financial policies, specifically public finance reform that includes budget formulation, implementation and monitoring activities…

The Somalia Partnership Forum Mogadishu on 4 – 5 December, 2017 Senior representatives of the Somali Government, the United Nations, representatives from Somalia Federal Member States, and the international community met in Mogadishu on 4 – 5 December, 2017 to participate in the Somalia Partnership Forum officially opened by H.E. Mohamed Abdulahi, the President of the Federal Republic of Somalia with a call for greater investment in the country’s economic development to create more job…

    The Second Consultative Meeting of Somalia Federalism Network (SFN) HESPI has been assisting the Somalia Federal Government and the member States Senior Official to establish effective federal governance in the country. In this context, the Institute organized a series of conferences and meetings on several aspects of implementing cooperative federalism in Somalia; including a three day discussion on Federalism and the lesson to be drown from mature Federal States in October 2014 - Addis…

HESPI conference on IGAD Economies 2017  was held on 24-26 September, 2017 in Khartoum, Sudan at Mamoun Beheiry Centre (MBC) The Annual HESPI Conference on IGAD Economies was held on September 24-26, 2017 at the Mamoun Beheiry Center (MBC) in Khartoum, Sudan . The three-day conference on the theme “Youth Unemployment and Creating Opportunities through Trade and Investment in the IGAD” was jointly organized by HESPI, ACBF, MBC, UNECA and IGAD Secretariat. Over 21 research…