Executive Summary
This is the executive Summary of the report The New Deal in Somalia: An Independent Review of the Somali Compact, 2014-2016.
Somalia’s Compact has been a bold experiment in an extremely challenging context. Many of the ingredients for success, based on lessons from other countries, were not present. The scope and the timelines of the Compact were ambitious and would have been challenging even for a stable, long-established government working with well-established development partners in a secure and more benign environment.