This Strategic Plan articulates the vision, mission, core values, and program of work of the Horn Economic and Social Policy Institute (HESPI) in the four years of 2014-17. It outlines the strategic priorities, objectives and initiatives that will focus the Institutes efforts to accomplish its mission and realize its vision. In this context, the strategic priorities of the Institute have been narrowed to undertaking high quality economic and social research; assisting in enhancing effective institutional capacities for sound policy formulation in the IGAD sub-region; advocating and promoting appropriate policies; broadening the core areas of engagement to productive sectors and to private sector needs; and strengthening internal institutional capacity, visibility and financial sustainability.