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HASI Consulting — Horn of Africa Strategic Initiatives
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Strategy · Advisory · Technical Delivery

Advisory that stays until the change holds.

Strategy, research and technical delivery for organizations building across the Horn of Africa — from first decision to lasting implementation.

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Since 20143 regional offices1,000+ organizations supported45 named clients

Organizations we have worked with since 2014

All 45 clients
  • World Bank Group
  • IFC
  • ILO
  • UN-Habitat
  • UNICEF
  • USAID
  • Telesom
  • Hormuud Telecom
  • Dahabshiil Bank
  • Republic of Somaliland
  • Norwegian Refugee Council
  • Mercy Corps

Marks identify the organizations concerned. They do not imply a current endorsement or an active engagement.

The firm

Resident in the markets we advise.

Horn of Africa Strategic Initiatives — HASI Consulting — was established in June 2014 and works in management consulting, advisory services, and business and organizational development. Three fully operational offices, teams working in Somali, English and Arabic, and fieldwork run by enumerators who know the terrain.

That breadth is deliberate. It lets one firm carry an engagement from strategic intent through to technical delivery, without the handover that usually sits between the advice and the thing being built.

Established
June 2014
Offices
Hargeisa · Mogadishu · Jigjiga
Working languages
English · Somali · Arabic
About the firmCompany profile (PDF)

Hargeisa · Mogadishu · Jigjiga — serving clients across the Horn of Africa.

What we do

Built to be combined, not chosen between.

Problems worth paying for cross more than one discipline. Ours are built to combine, so a strategy engagement can pull in the technical, research or capability work it turns out to need.

A greenhouse fails differently from a bank.

Each of the seven pages below sets out what is genuinely different about operating in that sector — not the same consulting copy with a noun swapped.
All seven sectors

What we change

We help organizations make the decision — and carry it through.

Most engagements begin in one of three places. Find yours, and we will tell you which of the six practices the work belongs to.

All six practices
  1. 01

    Build a stronger organization

    Strategy that reaches the operating model, the finances and the people — then execution support, monitoring and review until it holds.

    • Organizational Development
    • Human Capital
  2. 02

    Enter and grow in regional markets

    Incorporation, licensing, permits and compliance handled in the sequence local authorities expect, and the systems to scale once you are trading.

    • Trade & Investment
    • Organizational Development
  3. 03

    Deliver technical and evidence-led programmes

    Feasibility, design, procurement and installation; baselines, evaluation and impact. Analysis and delivery from one firm, not two who can blame each other.

    • Technical Consultancy
    • Research & Evaluation
    • Technology & Systems

How we work

What happens after you write to us.

The same four stages whichever practice the work starts in. The discipline changes what we do; it does not change how the engagement runs, or the point at which we stop.
  1. 01

    Listen

    A scoping conversation at no charge. We examine your goals, strategies, operations and structures before recommending anything.

  2. 02

    Design

    A written proposal: scope, method, the named team from our expert pool, deliverables, timeline and commercial terms. Nothing begins before it is agreed.

  3. 03

    Deliver

    Our own consultants and technical specialists carry the work, drawing on all six practices as the assignment requires, against a named lead and an agreed reporting rhythm.

  4. 04

    Stay

    Execution support, monitoring and periodic review. The improvement holding is the objective — not the report landing.

How we work, in full

Nothing begins before scope, method, named team, deliverables and terms are agreed in writing.

We listen before we advise.

Goals, strategies, operations and structures are examined in depth before a single recommendation is written. What that examination finds decides who we put on the work.
Facilitated working session with a client organization
The team at workFacilitated working session with a client organization

Assignments are then staffed from a pool of 21 management consultants and technical specialists, matched to the disciplines the work genuinely requires rather than to whoever happens to be free.

Every proposal names the individuals who will do it, with CVs on request, and that team does not change without your agreement.

professionals in the expert pool
21
training hours for our consultants and junior staff
576+
How we staff an assignment

The record, with its definitions attached.

Cumulative figures from the Company Profile 2026. Each states what it measures, so it can be checked rather than taken on trust.
SMEs and organizations supported
1,000+
Cumulative organizations that have received a HASI service since June 2014, across all six practices.
Start-ups and ventures incubated
300+
Early-stage and existing ventures taken through HASI incubation support, including facilitated access to finance.
Client retention and renewal
62%
Share of client organizations that renewed or returned for a further assignment.
Turn-key projects delivered
50+
Projects managed by HASI end to end, from planning through execution to close-out.

Source: HASI Company Profile 2026, verified August 2026. We publish no named case studies — client information is held in strict confidence — but we will send referenced examples and contactable references on request.

All eight figures, and how we evidence work
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What does your organization need to change?

Tell us what you are trying to change. If the work is not something we should take on, we will say so rather than write a proposal.

Discuss your objectiveExplore the six practices

Or write to hasiconsulting@hasiconsulting.com.