This report represents the first progress update on the implementation of the Support to Territorial and Administrative Reform – STAR project.

It covers the period from the commencement of STAR project in December 2013 until mid-April 2014 and summarizes progress in the following major directions: (i) technical and institutional capacity developed at the MLI to manage and complete the reform process, (ii) facilitation of public consultations and consensus building, (iii) provision of timely logistical inputs in all stages of the process, and (iv) provision of additional technical services in support to the reform.