IGAD Livestock Information Portal is designed as a web-based gateway or one-stop shop information management system to provide IGAD Member States and stakeholders in the livestock industry with comprehensive information to strengthen evidence policy making for the sector. It is developed by the IGAD Livestock Policy Initiative (IGAD LPI).

The aim of this portal is to harness the vast amounts of information in the IGAD region which is scattered across multiple sites, ministries and organisations. It gives IGAD Member States access and a platform for networking and sharing policy relevant livestock information from a variety of sources not only within the country but also across the region. It is intended to capitalize on existing information systems by bringing them together rather than replace them. As such this will be a meta-databased system in to facilitate the organizing and retrieving information. The web-portal is designed to strengthen the National Information Nodes in their efforts to meet the information needs of National Policy Hubs and Working Groups in evidence based policy development processes for the livestock sector.

The information in the portal includes documents, spatial datasets, and links to key data and information sources. The information will be updated by the ministries in charge of livestock through their information nodes recently set up and will be coordinated by IGAD Secretariat.