Africare/Mali

Africare began operations in Mali in 1974.

Since that time, Africare/Mali has invested more than $40,904,720 through projects addressing…

•Agriculture & Food Security                                                                                •Civil Society Capacity Building                                                                           •Education                                                                                                               •Health, HIV & AIDS                                                                                               •Humanitarian and Emergency Relief                                                               •Good Governance                                                                                                •Natural Resource Management                                                                        •Private Sector Capacity Strengthening                                                             •Water Management                                                                                              •Women’s Empowerment

…reaching an estimated 705,600 beneficiaries.

Africare/Mali’s Portfolio Today:

Africare Seed Assistance Project
[$150,000 – AngloGold Ashanti]

Emergency Operation Project in Timbuktu
[$309,000 – United Nations World Food Programme]

Multi-Year Assistance Program, Reprogramming in Nara
[$1,101,330 – United States Agency for International Development]

West Africa Water Management Project
[$500,000 overall based in Senegal – Australian Agency for International Development/Australia-Africa Partnerships Facility]

Success in Mali

Africare introduced the System of Rice Intensification to Mali’s Timbuktu region, successfully increasing average rice yields from 4.86 to 9.1 metric tons per hectare while reducing water requirements, chemical fertilizer dependency and input-related costs. This resulted in substantial gains in income, and the project earned an Interaction Best Practice Initiative Award in 2011.

The results of Africare’s Timbuktu Food Security Initiative (TFSI) in building community resilience were tested in 2012 when northern Mali was occupied by armed groups, forcing Africare to relocate out of Timbuktu. Commerce slowed, and access to agricultural inputs became a great challenge. Members of the local federation of rice cooperatives, confident in the systems and capacities developed by TFSI, implemented a plan to maintain their value-chain, and their work enabled one of the best rice campaigns in more than 10 years.