Following the extension of the program to the circles of Macina and San as well as those of Mopti and Djenné, the Technical Management Unit (UTGFS) of the program jigisemejiri organized regional launch ceremonies October 29 in the governorate of Ségou and October 31 at the regional health department of Mopti.
The purpose of these regional launching ceremonies was to inform and sensitize regional and local officials on the objectives, components and implementation conditions of the “jigisemejiri” program and to initiate the process of ownership.
The ceremonies were an opportunity to exchange and raise awareness about the institutional mechanisms of the national, regional and local program; to establish the collaborative relationship between the UTGFS and the mayors of the communes.
The national program coordinator recalled the context of the regional launch ceremonies, after explaining to community leaders, that this program needs all of its implications for its success.
“The program” jigisemejiri “has just received a second financing of about 30 billion CFA Francs; This amount will be used to expand the program horizontally. In the region of Mopti and Ségou, there are 4 new circles that will be added to the list of circles covered by the program. We will proceed with cash transfers, including accompanying measures to strengthen the human capital of poor children and then improve household resilience by initiating income-generating activities and supporting labor-intensive public works. . ”

The mayor of the rural commune of Femayé in the circle of Djenné, Moussa Gouro Diall expressed his satisfaction: “We thank jigisemejiri, its technical and financial partners. We welcome the news as a breath of fresh air in the circle of Djenné and obviously all the municipalities that are concerned because it will support for 36 months our vulnerable populations. For us, this social safety net is extremely important for our people. ”

Sidi DIARRA Mayor of SALOBA in the commune of Sarro also welcomed the program JIGISEMEJIRI in these terms “we are very happy to welcome JIGISEMEJIRI in our commune. We have long waited for this big day. We can only thank the State for this gift and wish good luck to the Jigisemejiri social safety net program ”

It should be remembered that the regions of Ségou and Mopti have 5,000 new beneficiaries each out of the 25,000 beneficiaries added to the program. This will enable the program to exceed 100,000 cash-receiving households in Mali by the four-year horizon.

Source: Jigisemejiri

After handing over 320 tons of cereals to the people, the head of the government presided over a meeting with the leaders of the circle who discussed problems of water, electricity, insecurity, youth employment

For the last stage of his tour in the 5th region, the Prime Minister, Boubou Cissé, was Monday in Youwarou where he has lent himself to the same exercise as in the other localities visited. Accompanied by a strong delegation of members of the government and his collaborators, the Prime Minister was greeted upon his arrival by the political and administrative authorities of Youwarou.

He then visited the village chief Ibrahima Sory Thiaw, to whom he explained the purpose of his visit, before attending the symbolic cash transfer to ten beneficiaries of the “Jigisemejiri” social safety net program. A program that aims to put in place targeted cash transfers for poor and food insecure households.

The national coordinator of the program, Mohamed Ali Sacko, said that in Youwarou, 462 households are receiving their cash transfers due to CFAF 120,000 per household for a total of 55 million CFA francs.

The Prime Minister then handed 320 tons of cereals to the people, before chairing a meeting with all the forces of the circle. During this meeting, the representative of Cafo (Coordination desassociations and feminine NGOs of Mali) indicated that it is thanks to the presence of a military camp in the city that women manage to carry out some income-generating activities. “Youwarou’s women are gardening and processing local products,” she said, while seeking the support of the NGO Agir of the First Lady Keïta Aminata Maïga to the women of Youwarou who live in poverty, because they have no microfinance structure where they can have loans. Overall, the concerns expressed by the population relate to the problem of water, electricity, insecurity, youth employment.

POSITIVE REVIEW – Dr. Boubou Cissé first conveyed the greetings of the President of the Republic to the people of Youwarou. He expressed his concern for the situation they are going through, adding that he is on tour in the Mopti and Ségou Regions for the return of peace.

According to the Prime Minister, this visit has already produced good news with the signing of peace agreements in Macina and Djenné. As a result, the people of Macina testified that their animals began to cross the river, which had not been possible for three years.

The head of the government paid tribute to the governors, prefects, sub-prefects and the military who are doing the work of the state, while inviting the people to help them in this direction. He promised that all the concerns highlighted by the people will be taken care of.

In addition, Dr. Boubou Cissé has assured Youwarou’s women that he will find tips for the local military to pay for the products they are processing. He promised to discuss concerns related to electricity, water, agriculture, access to fertilizers.

The Prime Minister has judged that the results of this tour is quite positive. “There is a certain desire on the part of all the communities and localities we have visited to move towards peace, security in the Mopti Region and everywhere in Mali. The dynamic is underway and is being encouraged by the government and the President of the Republic, “said Boubou Cissé who then said that people have expressed to him various concerns for which the authorities are in the process to find quick solutions. According to him, for peace and security to return, people must be able to live in tranquility, without the worry of eating for tomorrow, carry out activities that can generate the minimum income for them to meet their needs. the most basic.
For the Prime Minister, the first answers given by the government were welcomed. This is the free food distribution campaign. According to him, the Mopti Region benefited from 6000 tons of food distributed among the eight circles.

“Every locality where vulnerable populations have been identified has benefited from it and has certified it. This allowed them to be in a positive state of mind. Also, it created a glimmer of hope for all the populations we met, “he added.

Another device that the head of the government talked about is the project “Jigisemejiri” in Youwarou, whose objective is to help certain vulnerable sections of the population to have minimum capital and working capital to design activities that can bring them back revenues. In Youwarou, he says, a little over 460 people have benefited and each of them received the equivalent of 120,000 FCFA.

For Dr. Boubou Cissé, “this positive and encouraging assessment should not make us forget that the situation remains fragile”. He promised to continue the work to convince both sides to give up their arms, to enter a process of peace, cohesion and development for the benefit of all Malian populations. Before leaving Youwarou, the Prime Minister shared a meal with the soldiers in their camp. It was late yesterday morning that Dr Boubou Cissé left Mopti.

Correspondent
Dieudonné DIAMA

Source: L’Essor

The Mali Arid Zone Agricultural Productivity and Diversification Project (PDAZAM) was officially launched on 12 July 2019 in the Kayes region. Here, the program will cover 2,630 households in Diéma, Nioro and Yélimané circles in social cash transfers of 15,000 FCFA per month and 1960 households in productive cash transfer of 250,000 FCFA.

The implementation of these cash transfers will be supported by accompanying measures to encourage beneficiary households to invest in health and education. The total cost of the project is estimated at 34.410 billion Fcfa.

The project area covers 12 circles in the four regions (Kayes, Koulikoro, Segou and Mopti). These regions have been identified as areas with significant untapped agricultural potential that, at the same time, lacked investment and suffered from vulnerability at the village level.

In accordance with the terms of the collaboration protocol between the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Economy and Finance, the implementation of part of the project has been entrusted to the Technical Unit for the Management of the Social Safety Net Program. “Jigisemejiri” (UTGFS).

This choice is based on the experience of the “Jigisemejiri” project which, in addition to building the unified social register of Mali, carries out social cash transfers to poor and vulnerable households in several localities of the country.

Indeed, the “Jigisemejiri” social safety net program has been in existence for five years. During the first phase of its implementation, it intervened in more than 130 communes of Mali, by carrying out monetary transfers to more than 74.000 poor households and by framing more than 250.000 households on various topics of accompanying measures and by financing more than 10,000 income generating activities.

“The implementation of this project will undoubtedly significantly improve the living conditions of beneficiary households through cash transfers and the accompanying measures envisaged. I commend you all to a synergy of actions so that the expected results of the project are achieved, “said the director of cabinet of the governor of Kayes, Meïssa Fané, who presided over the ceremony.
It should be recalled that the government has institutionalized since 2013 financial assistance to poor and vulnerable households through the implementation of the National Program of Social Nets “Jigisemejiri”.

The State, with the support of the World Bank, has made the Jigisemejiri project the cornerstone of the development of its social protection system.
According to the coordinator of the “Jigisemejiri” social safety net program, Mamoud Aly Sako, the PDAZAM aims to improve the livelihoods of rural households in order to ensure their food security and offer opportunities to improve productivity. and resilience.

Banded Mr. SISSOKO
AMAP-Kayes
L’ESSOR

Funded at more than 34 billion CFA francs, the project for the development of agricultural productivity and diversification of the semi-arid zones of Mali (PDAZAM) was launched last Wednesday in Koulikoro, in the presence of the cabinet director of the governor Sékou Samaké and the project coordinator Mahmoud Ali Sako. The ceremony was an opportunity to inform and sensitize regional and local officials on the objectives, components and conditions of implementation of PDAZAM in the regions of Kayes and Koulikoro and to initiate the process of ownership by those responsible. regional and local

Project coordinator Mahmoud Ali Sako explained that PDAZAM is a vast project that is part of a strategic vision for rural and agricultural development in Mali.

It aims to ensure an improvement of the agricultural productivity and the resilience of the producers in its zone of intervention, in accordance with the prescriptions of the law of agricultural orientation and the policy of agricultural development 2013 and the national plan of investment of the agricultural sector which promotes, among other things, the creation of a social protection floor in Mali through improved productivity of poor and vulnerable households, food and nutritional security.

“Climate change and increasing human pressure pose challenges for agriculture in the semi-arid tropical environment of Mali. The fight against growth and poverty reduction in Africa, and particularly in Mali, is facing challenges and improvements in agricultural productivity, infrastructure, social inclusion and household resilience to climate and environmental shocks. ” Mahmoud Ali Sako, adding that these constraints affect the living conditions of rural households and particularly those of poor households in arid zones.

According to the cabinet director of the governor Sékou Samaké, the PDAZAM aims to improve the livelihoods of dryland rural households in Mali to ensure their food security and offer opportunities for productivity improvement and resilience. He indicated that the project’s intervention area covers selected communes in 12 selected circles of Kayes, Koulikoro, Segou and Mopti. The targeted communes in the 2nd region are Guihoyo, Mansantola, Sagabala in the circle of Kolokani, Bancoumana, Bossofala, N’Tjiba (in the circle of Kati), Dilly, Nara, Ouagadou, Gueniébé (in the circle of Nara).

The project has three components: support for improving the productivity and resilience of beneficiary populations; productive infrastructure at the community level and institutional support, crisis management and project coordination.

The objective of Component 1 is to improve household resilience by providing combined interventions including cash transfers to poor and vulnerable households to increase consumption and cope with seasonal shocks among others. It builds on the experience of the “Jigisemejiri” project, in addition to building the social register and providing cash transfers. It also encourages behavioral change. Also among the 20,000 households that will be identified in the unified social register, 12,000 will receive as social cash transfer 15,000 FCFA per month with bi-monthly payments of 30,000 FCFA and or quarter of 45,000 FCFA.

Also, the productive monetary transfer of a unit amount of 250,000 Fcfa will be granted to 9,600 households identified among 12,000 households. The cabinet director Sékou Samaké invited the actors to take ownership of this project for its success in the 2nd region, before thanking the technical and financial partners, especially the World Bank for its varied and constant support.

L’Essor; Monday, July 15th, 2019
Tinder MAIGA
AMAP-Koulikoro

On Thursday, May 2, 2019, the Jigisemejiri social safety nets program organized a press field visit to the Kita circle in collaboration with the local coordination committee. In total, 4 Villages from 2 communes were visited, with in each locality, gratifying testimonies of the beneficiaries on the contributions of the program in their lives.

The program “Jigisemejiri” intervenes in 12 communes out of the 33 which counts the circle of Kita. These are Benkadi-Founia, Kita-West, Bendougouba, Kokofata, Boudofo, Tambaga, Makono, Gadougoul, Koulou, Koutouba, Kita Urbain and Kita-Nord.

But for this visit, only the first two communes were concerned, namely those of Benkadi-Founia and Kita-West which contain respectively the villages of Founia-moribougou and Doumba as well as Kofeba and Madila.

Regarding the major achievements of the “Jigisemejiri” program in the Kita circle, important work needs to be highlighted.

For the cash transfer component, 2709 people benefited in 11 communes for a total amount of 975,240,000 FCFA, after three years of implementation.

As for support measures, several sensitization campaigns on themes such as the judicious use of cash transfers, exclusive breastfeeding, hygiene and sanitation were carried out for the beneficiary populations.

The PNP component (Preventive Nutrition Package) whose main objective is to contribute to the prevention of malnutrition has targeted children aged 6 to 59 months, pregnant women and breastfeeding women. In this context, four distributions were made in 50% of the communes of Gadougoul and Kita West.

334 beneficiaries of cash transfers in the communes of Benkadi-Founia and Kokofata also benefited from IGAs (Income Generating Activities) of the market gardening, livestock, poultry and trade type, for a total amount of 40,080,000 FCFA.

Finally, for the HIMO component (Work of High Intensity of Workforce), 40 micro-projects involving 2000 beneficiaries were selected in the communes of Kita-Ouest, Tambanga, Benkadi-Founia and Kita North.

“The intervention of the program” jigisemejiri “in the circle of Kita is to be welcomed. Since its arrival now, it has significantly reduced the level of poverty of certain populations in the circle, “said Boubacar Diarra, chairman of the local coordination committee of the program” Jigisemejiri “in the circle of Kita.

Beneficiary’s assessment

The beneficiary populations of the localities visited all testified to the contributions of the “jigisemejiri” program and its impact on their well-being.

“I can not thank Jigisemejiri enough. It is thanks to this program that I was able to start my garden with the 120.000 receipts. The benefits that I make allow me to keep my dignity as head of the family and it prevents my children from throwing themselves into adventures while crossing the sea, “says Makadian Keita, market gardener in the village of Doumba.

“I started breeding with the support of” Jigisemejiri “. It works very well for me. I manage to pay for my children’s schooling, I take care of my daily food and I manage to take care of my family, “testifies Fatoumata Souko. For her, “Jigisemejiri” has given her a major help and she asks that the whole village can benefit from it.

The “Jigisemejiri” program is also accompaniment measures aimed at changing the behavior of the population.

“Jigisemejiri” taught us how to properly care for our families, to be clean, to educate our children and to establish a birth certificate, “says Mamadou Keita.

“We ask Jiisemejiri to continue to help us breastfeeding women. We thank them for their generosity. The powder we are given for the porridge helps us a lot. Even when the child cries and we give it to him, he immediately calms down, “says Matou Souko, a breastfeeding woman from the village of Madila.

The “Jigisemejiri” or “Tree of Hope” program is a response from the World Bank to the Malian government in 2013 to fight extreme poverty across Mali. It is financed by the World Bank to the tune of CFAF 35 billion and has the major objective of meeting the immediate and permanent needs of households in chronic poverty and vulnerability.

By Germain Kenouvi

Source: Journal of Mali