This report presents IGAD’s 2025 performance, highlighting key achievements, emerging challenges, and strategic priorities across the organization’s mandate areas.
Despite operating in a complex geopolitical and socio-economic environment marked by climate shocks, conflict,food insecurity, displacement, and fiscal pressures, IGAD
continued to strengthen regional cooperation, institutional resilience, and the delivery of transformative regional programmes.

The IGAD borderland clusters—Karamoja (Cluster I), Moyale (Cluster II), and Mandera Triangle (Cluster III) are predominantly pastoral and agro-pastoral zones where livestock mobility across borders is central to livelihoods, trade, resilience, and food security. Seasonal migration to access or in search of pasture and water, coupled with dynamic formal and informal livestock trade, sustains millions of households in these regions. However, these same mobility dynamics
combined with porous borders, climate variability, recurrent droughts, insecurity, conflict over natural resources, weak infrastructure, and limited veterinary service coverage create high-risk conditions for the introduction and spread of priority Transboundary Animal Diseases (TADs)

During the current quarter (Q4 2025 and Q1 2026) of PRBP implementation, ICPAC has undertaken 4 key activities under the minor financial agreement for the period September 2025 to February 2026. Three four-day capacity strengthening workshops on Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems (MHEWS)
and Disaster Risk Management (DRM) were delivered in the Mandera Triangle cluster, Moyale–Moyale and Karamoja cross-border clusters. The training strengthened end-to-end early warning, promoted anticipatory action, and advanced cross-border coordination through the establishment/strengthening
of cluster Technical Working Groups (TWGs).

Transboundary Animal Diseases (TADs), including Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD), Pestedes Petits Ruminants (PPR), and Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia (CBPP), continue to pose significant threats to livestock-dependent livelihoods, food security, and regional trade across the IGAD region. The highly mobile nature of pastoral systems, porous international borders, and frequent cross-border livestock movements increase the risk of disease transmission and complicate control efforts.
In response to these challenges, IGAD, through the IGAD Centre for Pastoral Areas and Livestock Development (ICPALD), in collaboration with Member States, developed and signed Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) and an Information Sharing Protocol aimed at strengthening cross-border coordination, surveillance, prevention, and control of TADs. Despite these efforts, implementation at county, border, and community levels has remained weak, largely due to limited awareness of the frameworks, unclear institutional roles, and inadequate operational coordination mechanisms.

The Multi-Donor Action “Support for Enhanced Effective Coordination of Peaceful and Resilient Borderlands for IGAD border clusters of South Omo-Turkana, Mandera/Somali Triangle, and Borana/Moyale” is jointly co-financed by the European Union (EU) and the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and implemented by GIZ as part of the SCIDA III project.

This initiative is part of the broader Peaceful and Resilient Borderlands Project, which focuses on the Horn of Africa region, particularly within the IGAD (Intergovernmental Authority on Development) clusters covering Ethiopia, South Sudan, Somalia, and Kenya. These countries share common socio-economic and cultural ties but also face challenges such as conflict, migration, climate change, and underdevelopment