Annual Results Report

The project, implemented by Humanity and Inclusion Mali, targeted 14,561 households in 17 communes from Timbuktu, Gao, Mopti, and Menaka regions. The project's approach was aligned with national resilience priorities and focused on reinforcing households' livelihoods through cash transfer, support measures, and nutritional sensitization. The project's first phase involved conducting information sessions on the new funding, including launching workshops at the commune level. These workshops brought together project officers, authorities, community representatives, and technical services to inform participants about the project's objectives, activities, and work plan. The first distribution was conducted by some partners during this phase. The second phase, covering July to September, included cash transfer or food voucher distribution, presentation of the top-up to stakeholders, targeting process for additional beneficiaries, and continuation of civil documentation and DRR activities. The beneficiary identification and selection process was conducted in a participatory manner through village general assemblies, targeting committees, and project officers. The Household Economy Approach (HEA) or community-based targeting was used to identify and select beneficiaries. The process involved reminding participants of the program's strategy and objectives, identifying households present by comparing the list and beneficiaries' cards, determining the reasons for possible absences, and taking appropriate measures. The results of this process, conducted between February and May 2018, are recorded in a table showing the number of initial households, households present, displaced households, households whose head is dead, households whose head is absent and replaced by their representative, and households whose head is dead, the family displaced, and replaced by others. The targeting process for additional beneficiaries under the Top-Up involved a contract amendment to increase the number of beneficiaries. Presentation workshops were held to explain the increase in the number of beneficiaries, and a specific activity of identification and selection of additional households was organized. The HEA methodology was chosen to select additional beneficiaries, taking into account the inputs from municipality leaders, local technical services, community Support Committee, and Village General Assembly. The targeting criteria included very poor households who recently arrived in some villages, households with significant loss of livestock due to drought, households mainly headed by women and widows, and households with vulnerable dependents. The identification and selection of providers involved updating the beneficiary lists and selecting providers to carry out cash transfers or exchange food vouchers. A survey of the prices of the main products to be exchanged was carried out prior to distribution. The project communities have very well received the increase in the number of beneficiaries, and distribution to additional households will take place during the next reporting period for all partners. The project has targeted additional households in various intervention areas, including Rharous, Benguel, Bankoma, and Tintadeni, Alata, Inékar, and Andéramboukane, Bourra, and Talataye, Ouattagouna, and Bara, Ouinerden, Guinda Gatta, Bancani Village, Bancani Camp, Yourni, Tintafarak, Mekoreye, Saya, Tonka, Thierwell, and Tintara, Hombori, and Djaptodji.