Projects

Short Description:

Overall goal

UNICEF will implement an integrated and coordinated response, focusing on building peaceful, inclusive and resilient communities while strengthening the linkages between humanitarian action, development and peace programming. Interventions are designed to meet the needs of the most vulnerable children and communities, including those impacted by the socioeconomic effects of COVID-19.

Expected results

UNICEF aims to achieve following key results, reaching 2,3 million people (1,13 Mio. men and 1,17 Mio. women) including 2 Mio. Children, among others:

- Nutrition: 177,331 children aged 6 to 59 months with severe acute malnutrition admitted for treatment;

- Health: 200,000 children aged 6 to 59 months vaccinated against measles;

- Water, sanitation and hygiene: 482,000 people accessing a sufficient quantity of safe water for drinking and domestic needs;

- Child protection, GBViE and PSEA: 300,000 children and parents/caregivers accessing mental health and psychosocial support;

- Social protection: 30,000 households reached with cash transfers through an existing government system where UNICEF provided technical assistance and/or funding;

- Education: 110,000 children accessing formal or non-formal education, including early learning;

- Social and Behaviour Change-Communication for Development: 12,383,397 people reached through messaging on prevention and access to services.

Target group / Beneficiaries

UNICEF is requesting US$119.3 million in 2022, as mentioned in the 2020 HAC, to meet the humanitarian needs of crisis-affected children in Mali, in line with the Country Programme Document 2020–2024, which focuses on strengthening the linkages between humanitarian action and development programmes, and the multi-year Humanitarian Response Plan. In 2022, Austrian funds will help reinforce emergency preparedness and response in central and northern regions by contributing to the purchase, prepositioning of contingency stocks as well as providing technical support and monitoring of activities. The Austrian contribution is estimated to assist 20,000 people in need including 10,800 children (5,508 girls, 5,292 boys and 4,692 women, 4508 men). UNICEF will implement activities nationwide with local implementing partners, which will be selected after an open, transparent tender process.

Activities

Activities may include, among others:

- Purchase, transport and propositioning of emergency supplies;

- Monitoring of emergency preparedness and response activities;

- Ensure vaccination Campaign and outbreaks response;

- Ensure provision of the curative, preventive package to displaced persons;

- Ensure provision of emergency kits for affected health centres;

- Provide sufficient quantity of safe water for drinking, cooking and personal hygiene through construction/rehabilitation of water points or water trucking;

- Rehabilitate and construct appropriately designed and managed latrines;

- Provide critical water, sanitation and hygiene supplies (including hygiene items) and services;

- Community awareness and mobilization to support COVID 19 vaccine acceptance and uptake;

- Community dialogue supportive of health, nutrition, wash, child protection through the Mama Yeleen in the concerned areas.

Context

Mali ranks 184 out of 189 countries on the Human Development Index and 49.7 per cent of households live below the income poverty line. The country is currently experiencing an 18-month political transition following two consecutive coups d'états that occurred in August 2020 and May 2021, with elections planned for early 2022. In addition, Mali is facing multiple crises, including insecurity in the center and north, with strong regional ramifications (especially in Liptako Gourma), inter-communal conflicts, socio-political instability, climate change and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, which affects 11.7 million people. The humanitarian situation has deteriorated.

In 2022, 5.9 million people will be in need of humanitarian assistance, including 2.9 million women, 3.2 million children and 800,000 people with disabilities. As a result of ongoing attacks against civilians, the number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) has steadily increased and now totals nearly 400,000 people, of which 55 per cent are female and 64 per cent are children. Hostilities often result in grave violations of child rights including killing, maiming, recruitment and use by armed groups, as well as gender-based violence.