This report was prepared by an Independent Evaluation Group team led by Stephan R. Wegner under the guidance of Jeffrey A. Chelsky, Birgit Hansl, Rashmi Shankar, and Theo David Thomas and the overall guidance of Sabine Bernabè (Director General, Evaluation).

The evaluation team included Anis Dani, Samira Ahmed Gaid, Eric Kim Han, Doruk Yarin Kiroglu, Andres Liebenthal, Daniel Palazov, Mees van der Werf, Yongmei Zhou, Virginia Ziulu, and Marwane Zouaidi. Estelle Raimondo provided methods guidance. Esperanza Sadiua provided administrative support. The report was edited by William B. Hurlbut.

The report was peer-reviewed by Caroline Slaven, team leader, Economic Development, Somalia, United Kingdom Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, Nairobi, Kenya; Mahad Wasuge, executive director, Somali Public Agenda, a Mogadishu-based think tank, and researcher and writer; and Deborah Wetzel, former World Bank senior director, Governance Global Practice, and former director for regional integration, Africa, the Middle East, and North Africa.