Aleph Strategies was commissioned by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) to conduct a culture sector mapping exercise in the Horn of Africa, between September 2020 and March 2021. The objective was to lay the foundations for developing a 12-year regional engagement strategy for cultural programming. Aleph was tasked with identifying ‘entry points’ in the culture sector from the level of national governments to local grass-roots organisations.

This was an exclusively qualitative exercise, relying on insights, ideas and information gathered through extensive key informant interviews and desk-based research.

The Fieldwork Phase entailed field missions to Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya.