Under the Auspices of the IGAD BMP project, ICRAF holds annual cross border meeting to foster cross border collaboration on biodiversity conservation. This year, ICRAF held the third cross border stakeholder dialogue platform which was well attended by the cross border participants and yielded insightful recommendation to the project steering committee. In attendance of the meeting was the IGAD representative, representatives from Somalia and Kenyan Government, Partner organization and consultants implementing different activities of the project as well as other stakeholders involved in biodiversity conservation including International Non-Governmental Organization. Community representatives from Kenya and Somalia were also present during the meeting. As a side event to the cross border meeting, an external reviewer contracted by ICRAF presented the draft midterm review report of the project process since the inception period to date to give an independent opinion on the project progress and proposed recommendation for improvement, as well as opportunities for scaling out of the BMP project activities to enhance biodiversity conservation in the Kenya Somalia cross border region.