The Horn of Africa initiative was created in 2019 to promote regional economic integration as a way to foster peace, stability and sustainable development in the region. The initiative has a twofold ambition: i) political: it provides an open and frank political forum for the region at Finance Minister’s level to discuss and agree collective action to promote economic integration, ii) development: it is anchored on a solid development package along 4 pillars - regional infrastructures, trade facilitation, resilience and human capital. To date, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan and South Sudan have joined the initiative in partnership with international multilateral partners, the African Development Bank (AfDB), the World Bank (WB) and the European Union (EU).