It was on the occasion of the 17th session of the National Steering Committee (CNP) of the Social Safety Net Program that the Representative of the Secretary General of the Ministry of the Economy and Finance, Diakaridia Dembélé, announced the following: covid fund payment starting this month. “The meeting took place on Wednesday, December 1, at the Maeva Palace Hotel, in the presence of the Project Coordinator of the” JIGISEMEYIRI “social safety net program, Mahmoud Ali Sako.

The session takes place one year from the end of the Program. It offers the opportunity to measure the progress made by the Program during the first three quarters of the year 2021 and to examine the Draft Annual Work Plan and Budget (AWPB 2022) for the last year of implementation. from the program.

For the president of the National Steering Committee, Diakaridia Dembélé, these resources have enabled the Jigisemejiri Program to continue cash transfer payment operations in the regions of Kayes Koulikoro, Sikasso, Ségou, Mopti and Gao. And to add that it is necessary “to continue the operations of payments to Konna within the framework of the Multi-donor financing and to proceed to the completion of the payments to the Governmental Social Safety Net (PGFS) in the circles of Yélimane, account of the Project Yanfolila, Koulikoro, Banamba and Commune IV of the District of Bamako.

As part of the accompanying measures, he said, the NGO recruitment process, which began in 2020, continued in 2021. Multiple contingencies did not allow this process to be completed by September 30, 2021.

At the level of Public Works with High Intensity of Labor (HIMO) and Income Generating Activities (IGA), the results obtained were insignificant during the period under review.

To do this, Diakaridia Dembélé revealed that the Covid-19 pandemic caused the suspension of all field activities related to labor-based and AGR operations.
During the first three quarters of the year 2021, according to the president of the CNP, this fund amounts to 4 billion 239 million FCFA out of a forecast estimated at 18 billion 64 million FCFA, or an execution rate of 23.47%.

With regard to the partners, assessments are underway with the World Bank to see if the environmental and social conditions allow the resumption of activities in certain localities. During the year 2021, the Program continued the development of the Unified Social Register through the collection and registration of new beneficiaries of the Government’s Emergency Cash Transfer Program linked to COVID 19.

During the period, the Program continued to put in place environmental and social safeguard instruments, in particular issues of accountability and social inclusion and prevention of gender-based violence.
Overall, at the level of the achievements of the Jigisemejiri Social Safety Net Program at the level of the other sub-components, activities will be relaunched with the completion of the recruitment process for non-governmental organizations (NGOs).
“The procedures for concluding the various contracts with these partners should be completed by the end of 2021. The redeployment of the unified social register (RSU), planned for 2021, will be a reality in 2022. The provisions are in progress with the technical services of social protection for the installation of pilot centers in some ”, affirmed the president of the CNP.

He, finally, thanked the various Technical and Financial Partners who support the Jigisemejiri Social Safety Net Program, mainly the World Bank for the importance of its interventions in Mali.

Mamadou SANGARE

Source: Les Echos