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March 23-26, 2026 (JUBA, South Sudan) Organized by ICPALD’s AfDB-funded EIDFR Project, in partnership with University of Juba, an intensive four-day incubation immersion for youth-led startups was held to support co-founders of 20 startups that recently secured their first seed funding tranche. IGAD’s Head of Mission to South Sudan, Dr. Victoria…

February 23-24, 2026 (ENTEBBE, Uganda) ICPALD held the regional workshop on strengthening the IGAD sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) committee under ICPALD’s Pastoralism and Livestock Adaptation to Climate Change in Eastern Africa Programme (PLACE) Project. Funded by EU through UN FAO, sixteen people participated in the two-day workshop held in Entebbe. Participants…

February 11-13, 2026 (NAIVASHA, Kenya) The Technical Working Group (TWG) training for IGAD lusters I, II and III was convened with funding from GIZ under the Peaceful and Resilient Borderlands Programme (PRBP) framework. In attendance were ICPAC, ICPALD, GIZ technical officers (epidemiology and diagnostics specialists) from Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and South…

February 10-12, 2026 (MOYALE, Ethiopia) Sub-COF5 was organized by ICPAC and ICPALD, in collaboration with Norwegian Capacity (NORCAP), National Meteorological and Hydrological Services of Ethiopia & Kenya, and WMO Global Producing Centres. This forum was supported with funding from the UK Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), International Development Research…

February 9-10, 2026 (DJIBOUTI CITY, Djibouti) ICPALD in collaboration with the University of Djibouti and the Chamber of Commerce organized the National Policy Workshop, to deliberate on a completed in-depth entrepreneurship ecosystem assessment carried out under the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Development for Fragility Reduction (EIDFR) project. The workshop was attended…

January 21-22, 2026 (JIGJIGA, Ethiopia) The Second Multi-Sectoral One Health Forum for the IGAD Mandera Cluster brought together the Ministries of Agriculture/Livestock, Health, Environment and key development partners. Convened by ICPALD under the Regional Livestock Program (RLP) project, with funding from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), the forum provided a collaborative…

Our PASSAGE Project brought together a transdisciplinary team of academic and technical partners for a one-day post-graduate research dissemination and progress review meeting. “From this forum we can gauge what can be of actionable benefit from the student’s work and also provide them with meaningful feedback”, said Dr. Dereje Wakjira…

ICPALD, SPARC and Jameel Observatory held a policy and practice dialogue focusing on the sustainable development of drylands. Co-convened by the three institutions, the event took place on October 1st & 2nd, 2025 at the Movenpick Hotel in Nairobi. In opening, H.E. Mohamed Abdi Ware, IGAD Deputy Executive Secretary, said, “There…