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IFAD in Mali

Since 1982, IFAD has worked in partnership with the Government of Mali to reduce rural poverty, and has invested a total of US$186.0 million in 12 rural development programmes and projects for an overall cost of US$475.1 million. IFAD has also financed several technical assistance grants supporting national and subregional programmes.

IFAD’s country strategic opportunities programme (COSOP) for Mali is in alignment with Mali’s Strategy Framework for Growth and Poverty Reduction (CSCRP) 2007-2011, and with the framework’s objective of improving living standards and food security, especially for the poorest and most vulnerable communities, who often live in remote areas. The country programme aims to improve the living conditions of poor rural people, particularly agropastoralists, small farmers, livestock breeders and fishers. The country programme has a special focus on building assets in the chronically food-deficit areas of the Sahelian and Sahelo-Saharan zones, which are priority intervention areas for the government and areas in which IFAD has extensive experience. IFAD has been designated by the government as the lead agency for donors operating in the north of the country.

The first strategic objective of the results-based COSOP is to increase and diversify agricultural production in order to improve household food security and goods accumulation by:

investing in infrastructure and supporting services to process, store and trade agricultural products
supporting small-scale producers and processors to manage productive investments
delivering technical and economic services to family farms upstream and downstream of production
enhancing the participation of rural communities in local development processes.

IFAD also focuses on the strong causal links between poverty and environmental degradation, centering interventions around environmental protection in marginal and low-potential agroecological zones.

In addition, the country programme aims to improve the quality of and access to basic social services such as health and education, and to develop the management of these services by local authorities and users’ associations. The programme works in collaboration with partners that include the Belgian Fund for Food Security, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the Global Environment Facility, the United Nations Development Programme, the West African Development Bank, the World Bank and the World Food Programme.

A new COSOP will be developed in 2012, which will supersede the current one in 2013.

Source: IFAD

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