4 Acknowledgments

This note was prepared by a team comprising Bianca Adam, Lindsey Jones, Nicola Ranger and Thibault Bouessel du Bourg, under the guidance of Nabila Assaf.

The team benefited from inputs and advice provided by colleagues from several World Bank units, including: the Agriculture Global Practice (GP); Poverty GP; Finance Competitiveness and Innovation GP; Macroeconomics, Trade and Investment GP; Health, Nutrition and Population GP; Social Protection and Jobs GP; Development Economics Data Group; Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR); and the Fragility, Conflict and Violence (FCV) Group.

In addition, the note greatly benefited from technical inputs and contributions from a range of partners, including: Dirk-Jan Omtzigt, Ashely Pople, Michelle Rao, Joao Basto at the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN-OCHA), Ayham Ahsan Al Maleh and Viktoria Von Knobloch at the United Nations Peacebuilding Support Office (UN-PBSO), Ruth Hill and Conor Meenan at the Centre for Disaster Protection (CDP).