World Bank work in Somalia

Independent monitoring, fiduciary assurance and institutional analysis across successive programmes.

Abyrint has contributed independent monitoring, fiduciary assurance and institutional analysis to World Bank programmes in Somalia. Our work has developed across more than a decade, from the transition out of Norway’s Special Financing Facility to monitoring and analytical assignments reported through June 2025. Explore our origins and selected public references.

Independently assessed performance

Abyrint’s monitoring function was assessed as effective and essential to delivery and risk mitigation by the independent 2019 review of the Somalia Multi-Partner Fund. The reviewers found thorough, targeted analysis and practical recommendations and concluded that the arrangement offered value for money in Somalia’s operating context. Read the assessment, including its cost and coordination context.

The independent review also identified Abyrint’s verification work, including checks on payroll exceptions, as an important contributor to making recurrent-cost financing and public-financial-management projects operational in Somalia.

Reference: Aleph Strategies Limited, Multi Partner Fund for Somalia Mid Term Review — Final Report, September 2019. Performance assessment: §3.2.2, printed pp. 34–35 / PDF pp. 35–36; operational contribution: §3.2.1, printed p. 32 / PDF p. 33. Read the contribution in context.

Safeguarding public resources

Abyrint’s independent verification helps safeguard project resources, strengthen financial oversight and support continuing improvements in public financial management, as the World Bank explains in its report covering July 2024–June 2025. The report also connects the monitoring and analytical work to government reforms, project design and portfolio management.

The work described in that report includes fiduciary review of approximately 140,000 government-executed transactions each year, principally payroll and eligible Federal Member State non-salary recurrent costs under RCRF III. Payroll reviews include civil servants, teachers and health workers. Alongside continuous reviews, Abyrint had completed 34 on-demand assignments out of 37 agreed to date, including implementation reviews, procurement probity, capacity support and institutional diagnostics.

Reference: World Bank, Somalia Multi-Partner Fund Progress Report: July 2024–June 2025, printed pp. 34–35 / PDF pp. 39–40. See the source annotation.

Analysis used in decisions

Abyrint’s strategic risk reviews informed government and World Bank Group strategy, portfolio management and implementation, according to the Bank’s July–December 2021 report. Our independent mid-term assessment of the Special Financing Facility for Local Development was also cited in a 2017 restructuring paper discussing project progress and management improvements. These contributions connect operational knowledge with institutional decisions.

The 2021 report describes Abyrint’s support for a joint public-financial-management assessment of Federal Member State administrations and procurement-probity advisory work alongside transaction-level monitoring. Explore our monitoring and assurance work.

References: World Bank, Somalia Multi-Partner Fund Progress Report: July–December 2021, printed pp. 25–27 and 43 / PDF pp. 31–33 and 49; Restructuring Paper — Special Financing Facility for Local Development (P156257), report RES30033, PDF p. 3.

A distinctive financial-sector mandate

Abyrint was appointed by the World Bank as the Central Bank of Somalia’s Trusted Agent to assist regulation and supervision of money-transfer businesses. The appointment was described in World Bank and UK government accounts published in 2016. The UK account identifies the DFID-funded World Bank project behind the role. The mandate addressed oversight of a vital channel for cross-border payments.

References: World Bank, Dealing with de-risking: a tale of tenacity and creativity, 21 June 2016; UK Permanent Mission, Note No 072, 24 March 2016, annex, PDF p. 5. Explore the mandate.

Continuity and specialist responsibility

Abyrint’s financial-agent services continued through the transition from Norway’s Special Financing Facility into the World Bank fund with Norwegian in-kind support. The World Bank’s 2021 report records renewal of our monitoring-agent contract and use of our strategic reviews; its July 2024–June 2025 report identifies Abyrint as the continuing monitoring agent.

We see that continued engagement, explicit renewal and institutional use of our analysis as evidence of sustained institutional confidence in our specialist work. Read about our origins.

References: Norad, Evaluation of Norway’s Engagement in Somalia 2012–2018, Report 7/2020, Annexes 3–7, printed/PDF p. 7; World Bank, Somalia Multi-Partner Fund Progress Report: July–December 2021, printed p. 43 / PDF p. 49, and Somalia Multi-Partner Fund Progress Report: July 2024–June 2025, printed pp. 34–35 / PDF pp. 39–40.