23 March 2023 – Nairobi, Kenya: IGAD Security Sector Program (IGAD SSP) has successfully conducted a regional training workshop on regional and international normative frameworks and initiatives on Transnational Organized Crimes (TOC) including the opportunities, challenges, and prospects to IGAD and its MSs to strengthen cross-border cooperation on 20-23 March 2023 in Nairobi, Kenya.
Ethiopia Inter-University, Research and Policy Institute Seminar on Trafficking in Persons & Smuggling of Migrants Concluded
10 March 2023 – Bishoftu, Ethiopia: IGAD Security Sector Program (IGAD SSP) has successfully conducted a national inter-university, research, and policy institutions Seminar on good practices of Trafficking in Persons and Smuggling of Migrants (TiP & SoM) on 6-10 March 2023 in Bishoftu, Ethiopia. The overall objective of the seminar was to provide a platform for these institutions and relevant state actors for exchange of ideas, sharing of information, and creating a mechanism to have the knowledge products that are available as well as create a future collaborative environment for an effective prevention and countering of the threat in the country and beyond.
Regional Forum on International and Regional Legal Frameworks to Combat the Financing of Terrorism successfully Conducted
2 March 2023 – Bishoftu, Ethiopia: About thirty experts and practitioners from the national institutions of all Member States mandated with the fight against the multiple facets of the financing of terrorism debated from 28 February to 2nd March at a regional forum on ways and means of strengthening regional cooperation as well as discussed best practices and approaches to tackle the threat.
Inter-Ministerial Forum on Transnational Security Threats Successfully Concluded
5 February 2023, Mombasa, Kenya: The Intergovernmental Authority on Development’s (IGAD’s) Security Sector Program (IGAD SSP) concluded successfully a two-days Inter-Ministerial Forum for the Ministers of Justice/Attorney General, Police Commissioners/Inspector Generals, and IGAD Committee of Ambassadors to enhance the Regional Cooperation and Coordination against Transnational Security Threats (TSTs) held on 30-31 January 2023 in Mombasa, Kenya.
Regional sensitization workshop on security threats of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) (drones) and other emerging technologies Conducted
10 December 2022, Bishoftu-Ethiopia: IGAD Security Sector Program (IGAD SSP) has successfully conducted a regional sensitization workshop on security threats of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) (drones) and other emerging technologies in Bishoftu town in Ethiopia, on 5 – 10 December 2022.