The hub will benefit a wide range of stakeholders and areas bestriding the Horn of Africa. Key stakeholders include arid and semi-arid regions of East Africa as well as nomadic, pastoral communities in Ethiopia and Somalia.

The Innovation Hub and Resilience Facility Centre will have the following enablers, to establish peace and community resilience, deploy technology to secure climate mitigation and adaptation, to support business growth for the youth startups.

• Data Experimentation Incubators: This is the creation of secure environments where researchers and SMEs can test innovative services and product ideas based on open data and business data, enable ASAL Counties and communities to partnership in new innovative companies and services for the data economy that generates new enterprises and transforms their economies.
• Strengthen Intra-Community exchange of ideas, practices. This strategy seeks to empower youth and emerging women leaders to envision, shape and own productive assets through community farming, technology-driven entrepreneurship and other alternative, dignified and gainful employment.

In order to meaningfully address these deep challenges, the Hub seeks to  convene various working groups  focused on exploring viable, practical livelihoods development and Critical Enabling Supports.

The strategy is a combination of impact investment in effective and proven small pilots and transformative systemic changes.