This report was prepared by an Independent Evaluation Group team led by Stephan Wegner and Mees van der Werf under the guidance of Birgit Hansl (manager) and Theo Thomas (director) and the overall guidance of Sabine Bernabè (Director General, Evaluation).

The evaluation team comprised Patricia Acevedo, Sakuntala Akmeemana, Rima Al-Azar, Anis Dani, Molly Fellenbaum, Mitko Grigorov, Eric Kim Han, Gilang Hardadi, Doruk Yarin Kiroglu, Yulia Krylova, Andres Liebenthal, Daniel Palazov, Gabriel Sandstrom Stephan, Sanittawan Tan, Anthony Martin Tyrrell, David Young, and Marwane Zouaidi. William B. Hurlbut edited the report. Estelle Raimondo and Santiago Tellez Canas provided methodological advice throughout the preparation of the report.

The report was peer-reviewed by Sarah Cliffe (director emeritus and distinguished fellow, New York University’s Center on International Cooperation, and former World Bank director and co-director of the World Development Report 2011); Joel Hellman (dean of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and distinguished professor in the Practice of Development, Georgetown University; former World Bank director, Global Center on Conflict, Security, and Development, Nairobi, Kenya); Anne Kabagambe (former board member of the World Bank Group; independent director on the boards of the Barrick Mining Corporation and the Financial Services Volunteer Corps); Markus Kostner (former Bank Group practice manager, Urban, Rural, and Social Development; member of the Fragile and Conflict States Global Expert Team; and core team member of the World Development Report 2011); Khalid Payenda (former minister of finance in Afghanistan and adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service); and Stavros George Stavrou (former senior conflict and fragility specialist, Urban, Rural, and Social Development, World Bank).