The MSR draws from a range of data sources, incorporating perceptions and perspectives from a variety of stakeholders. Several components provided the primary data used in this analysis, supplemented by a review of a range of secondary sources, including planning and strategy documents and reports from MSR Steering Committee organisations, and government data and reports. The major components of the MSR study, undertaken throughout 2008, include quantitative, qualitative and historical data:

Quantitative Data

• The Aceh Reintegration and Livelihoods Survey (ARLS), commissioned by the World Bank, provides the primary quantitative data source used throughout the report. 
• A conflict damage and loss assessment, was supported by the World Bank. It uses data collected in 2006 on every rural village in Aceh,15 along with other secondary data sources, to estimate the impacts of the conflict. The data is primarily used in Chapters Four and Five.
• A stock-take of reintegration and post-conflict programming was conducted with support from the World Bank, National Development Planning Agency (BAPPENAS), BRA-APRC, USAID-SERASI and UNORC. It provides detailed information on projects that have conceivably had a peace-building impact, allowing for an assessment of the degree to which conflict damage and losses have been met (Chapter Five and Annex Three);
• Data on conflict incidents since the MoU is from the Aceh Conflict Monitoring Updates, prepared by the World Bank, and (more recently) the Aceh Peace Monitoring Updates, prepared by Syiah Kuala University. This data is primarily used in Chapter Seven.

Qualitative Data

• Fieldwork on communities' perceptions of the peace process, was supported by AusAID and the World Bank (Annex Five), and fieldwork on women and the peace process was implemented by Aceh Institute with the support of USAID-SERASI (Annex Six). Data from these studies is used to investigate the processes of reintegration and post-conflict development, the needs of particularly vulnerable groups, and emerging issues. This data is used throughout the MSR report. 
• A survey of community, government, business and NGO leaders' perceptions of the peace process was supported by the World Bank. In all, 121 people were interviewed with findings being used throughout the report (Annex Seven). 
• A review of how the DDR process in Aceh fits with international norms and practice was undertaken by UNDP and IOM.

Historical Data

• Finally, a historical analysis of conflict in Aceh was commissioned by AusAID and helps put the most recent conflict and peace process in historical perspective (Annex Four).

The MSR also draws extensively on other research and strategy documents. These include: the Aceh Public Expenditure Analysis, Growth Diagnostic, Poverty Assessment and GAM Reintegration Needs Assessment prepared by the World Bank16; BRA's Strategy and Comprehensive Action Plan; BAPPENAS and UNDP's Strengthening Sustainable Peace and evelopment in Aceh (SSPDA) Mid-Term Evaluation of Peace and Reintegration; and the Meta- Analysis and Psychosocial Needs Assessment undertaken by IOM.19 Other academic papers and project documents were also consulted and are cited through the report.