Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA) is a member of a Quartet that has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Life and Peace Initiative (LPI) to carry out a project that aims at enhancing the role of civil society and academia in policy making at the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD). The Quartet includes LPI) as the initiator of the project, Conflict Early Warning and Response Mechanism(CEWARN), Inter  Africa Group(IAG) and OSSREA. The Life & Peace Institute (LPI) is an international and ecumenical center, which through a combination of research and action supports non-violent approaches to conflict transformation. LPI has been engaged in the Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes Region for over 25 years.

The goal of the initiative is to affect regional policies that are evidence-based, comprehensive and sensitive to local conflict dynamics and perspectives. The overall objective of this initiative is to enrich regional policy making processes with local perspectives, lived experiences, solid evidence and expertise by supporting civil society organizations and academia to conduct policy-targeted research and analysis.

In 2014, LPI initiated a pilot initiative of the project which is estimated to be completed by December 2015. OSSREA is expected to lead/provide academic participation and input in the pilot project. This call for a short consultancy is the first step of a knowledge harvesting contribution to the project that will be undertaken by OSSREA.

The Initiative has identified Cross Border Security Governance (CBSG) to be the general theme of study, where by Informal Cross Border Trade (ICBT) is used as a lens to understand CBSG.  This call isf for a short and rapid assessment   of ICBT in a context of CBSG. A six country assessment of ICBT including Ethiopia, Kenya, Djibouti, Uganda, Somalia and Sudan is done and the report is submitted to LPI.

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