The Horn Economic and Social Policy Institute (HESPI) in collaboration with African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) organized a Dissemination and Capacity Building Workshop on Leveraging Enhanced Special Drawing Right (SDR) Allocation to finance Resilient Economic Recovery in Ethiopia. Abdurahman A. Hussien, a senior research fellow at HESPI presented the findings of the study. Participants included […]
The Horn Economic and Social Policy Institute (HESPI) organized a seminar for enhancing the role of civil society organizations in public advocacy for financial transparency and accountability in Ethiopia, Somalia and South Sudan. The seminar was held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on July 11 – 13, 2023
The Horn Economic and Social Policy Institute (HESPI) in collaboration with the Institute of Public Finance (IPF) from Nairobi, Kenya organized a project inception workshop on 10th May 2023 in Addis Ababa on quantifying government investment in Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) prevention and elimination programs across all sectors and expenditure tracking from all sources at […]
HESPI senior management team attended SALCA learning workshop held in ACCRA, GHANA on March 21-24, 2023. The workshop was organized by the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF) under the SALCA: “Strengthening African Leadership Capacity for Climate Adaptation: An Imperative for Adapting to Climate Impact” program and was aimed at providing a platform for learning and […]
HESPI held its Board of Directors virtual meeting on the 10th of December 2022. The Chairperson opened the meeting with a welcoming remark and brief statement on the impact of the economic turbulence and insecurity in the sub region on the Institute’s operations. The management of HESPI then presented reports on the Institute current year’s […]
African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF) under the Strengthening African Leadership for Climate Adaption (SALCA) initiative had a Capacity Need Assessment (CNA) validation workshop after identifying the Horn Economic and Social Policy Institute (HESPI) capacity needs on November 8 – 11, 2022 in Addis Ababa.
The Chinese Academic of Social Science (CASS), and the United Nations Office for South – South Cooperation (UNOSSC) jointly organized the South-South Poverty Eradication and Sustainable Development seminar on October 21, 2021. The focus of the event was knowledge sharing on poverty eradication for developing economies, exchange of views on the challenges faced on poverty […]
The African Union Peace and Security Council, at its 811th meeting held on 22 November 2018, mandated the AUHIP to among others undertake a series of research activities and consultative meetings with member countries of the IGAD and the Red Sea Basin on the development, governance and security challenges facing the region. In addition, that […]
On December 23, 2020, Dr. Ali Issa, The Managing Director of HESPI, made a presentation at the China Africa Institute virtual seminar on the Occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) to discuss the economic, trade and finance cooperation between China and Africa over the past two decades and since the Forum […]
HESPI organized an online research-validation workshop on 11th of November to share the findings of research conducted on the above topics commissioned by the African Union High-Level Implementation Panel (AUHIP) chaired by President Thabo Mbeki in preparation for the convening of the conference on peace, security, stability, economic cooperation and development in the Horn of […]
The African Union Commission and the Horn Economic & Social Policy Institute signed MoU on July 24, 2020 at the Headquarters of the AUC. The ceremony was presided by H.E. Ambassador Thomas Kwesi Quartey, Deputy Chairperson AUC and Ambassador Peter G.Robleh, Chairperson HESPI Board of Directors in the presence of Dr. Ali Issa, Managing Director […]
On February 14, 2020, HESPI organized briefings sessions on progresses of project implementations of the RWG activities under the AUHIP on the HoA for the period of June – December 2019. The meeting was attended by about 20 people. Representatives from Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Switzerland embassies; participants from the AUC Sudan and South Sudan […]
The Horn Economic and Social Policy Institute (HESPI) jointly with the Institute of Pastoral and Agro-pastoral Development Studies (IPADS) of Jigjiga University organized an International Conference on Climate Change, Pastoralism, and Resilience Building on October 3-4, 2019 in Jigjiga, Ethiopia. At the opening session of the Conference, honored guests touched briefly on the important and topical […]
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 […]