1 PILLAR
Under the pillar, HoAI undertakes the following activities and projects:
- Improvement of the 6,000-km regional transport infrastructure network connecting four priority corridors.
- Power integration through regional energy interconnections and power trade among the countries of the Horn.
- Strengthening of strategic economic corridors to connect inland populations to ports and markets.
- Increase access to economic opportunities and improve productivity and regional spillover benefits.
2 PILLAR
The following aspects are envisaged under the pillar on Economic and Trade Integration Improve trade facilitation and regional value chain development.
- The connectivity of border agencies helps speed up the delivery of basic goods and services and expand trade.
- Increase trade and reduce transport costs along key HoA corridors.
- Increase investments and improve the institutional climate for regional value chains including livestock and agribusiness.
3 PILLAR
Strengthening resilience to climatic shocks including recurrent droughts, floods, and pests, as well as conflict, displacement, and development of the borderlands.
- HoAI is committed to building capacities for ground water management to help communities cope with and adopt climate shocks.
- Other areas of focus include resilience against desert locus surges and other trans-boundary threats, promoting resilience in the borderlands and support for agro-pastoralism.
- Regional Climate Resilience building is a top priority for the HoAI.
- Food systems resilience and Livestock resilience are at the core of resilience-building in the Horn.
4 PILLAR
Enhancing skills to find regional solutions to improve human capital service delivery, health systems, and pandemic preparedness.
Priority Package
The Finance Ministers of Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia have endorsed a Priority Package of investment projects considered transformational for the socioeconomic growth and stability of the Horn. The package of $15.89 billion of priority projects is below.
The Priority Package is currently being updated to incorporate South Sudan priorities. Regional priorities of Eritrea and Sudan are yet to be included in it.
| Priority Proposals | Likely Countries | Estimated Costs |
|---|---|---|
| Pillar 1: Regional Infrastructure Networks | $12.5 BN | |
| Economic Corridors | $9 BN | |
| $9 BN | |
| Regional Energy Trade | $1.84 BN | |
| $1.57 BN | |
| Enabling Power Trade (East Africa Power Pool, Somalia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Kenya) | $0.15 BN | |
| Other Energy Supports: Regional Oil Jetty - Damerjog New Oil Jetty (Potential PPP Project) | $0.12 BN | |
| Single Digital Market | $1.7 BN (plus private financing) | |
| $0.9 BN | |
| $0.3 BN | |
| $0.5 BN | |
| Pillar 2: Trade and Economic Integration | $0.5 BN | |
| $0.45 BN | |
| Regional Value Chain Development | $0.03 BN + Private Sector Investments | |
| Investment Climate | $0.02 BN | |
| Pillar 3: Building Resilience | $1.3 BN | |
| Pastoralist Livestock Insurance | $0.4 BN (of concessional, to leverage $1.6 BN from private sector) | |
| Strengthening the resilience of pastoral production system to climate change | $0.9 BN | |
| Pillar 4: Strengthening Human Capital | $1.55 BN | |
| Strengthening Human Capital Delivery Systems and Networks | $0.7 BN | |
| Building Skills for Future Employment and empowering women and youth | $0.6 BN | |
| Strengthening Identification for Development (ID4D) | $0.25 BN | |
| Total | $15.89 BN |