Horn Center for Democracy Horn Center for Democracy One year programme funding support to ISS for the "Horn Center for Democracy Capacity Building Program: Inception Project". One year programme funding support to ISS for the "Horn Center for Democracy Capacity Building Program: Inception Project". Over the one-year duration of the inception project, HCD proposes to accomplish the following two objectives:

Objective 1: Build the capacity of the Center through; defining its internal structure, producing internal working documents and thematic base line studies that can serve as an input to the preparation of a strategic plan and main phase program document.

Objective 2: Program implementation with the aim of promoting and popularizing the center in the sub-region .

The major outcomes of this inception phase will be:

i. Center with a better internal steering and implementation capacity that is ready to effectively implement a bigger program during the subsequent program phase; and

ii. Center with a better networking outlook, convening power and popularity rate in the Horn of Africa Region.