Socio-economic development
Page 2, Preamble:
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Recognising the need to accelerate economic, social and cultural development in northern Mali using an appropriate system;
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Page 3, SECTION I: PRINCIPLES, COMMITMENTS AND FOUNDATIONS FOR A SUSTAINABLE RESOLUTION OF THE CONFLICT, Chapter 1: Principles and Commitments, Article 1:
In the spirit of the roadmap, the Parties reiterate their attachment to the following principles:
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d) promotion of balanced development throughout the regions of Mali taking into account their respective potential;
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Page 5-6, SECTION II: POLITICAL AND INSTITUTIONAL QUESTIONS, Chapter 4: Distribution of powers and competences, Article 8:
The regions shall be competent, within the framework defined by legislation and provisions, in the following areas:
a) planning and programming economic, social and cultural development;
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d) agriculture, livestock, fishing, forestry management, transport, commerce, industry, handicrafts, tourism, interregional transport;
e) regional administrative budgets and accounts;
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i) disbursement of subsidies;
j) acquisition of holdings;
k) decentralised cooperation and twinning;
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Page 6, SECTION II: POLITICAL AND INSTITUTIONAL QUESTIONS, Chapter 5: Representation of the State and monitoring legislation, Article 10:
The State shall appoint a Representative for the territorial collectivities, to safeguard the general interest. To this end, he shall keep them informed of Government policy for major projects and facilitate economic and social development policy and territorial management.
Page 7, SECTION II: POLITICAL AND INSTITUTIONAL QUESTIONS, Chapter 6: Finance and resources, Article 14:
The State shall set up a mechanism between now and the year 2018 to transfer 30% of its budgetary income to the territorial collectivities, based on a system of equalisation, focussed in particular in the Northern Regions, using criteria to be specified.
Page 9, SECTION IV: SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT, Chapter 12: Specific Development Strategy, Article 32:
The Parties agree that the State needs to reposition its local development strategy in favour of greater involvement of local collectivities in formulating their own development strategies based on solidarity, and which are participative and adapted to the socio-cultural and geographic local realities, while ensuring transparency and proper accounting at all levels.
Page 9, SECTION IV: SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT, Chapter 12: Specific Development Strategy, Article 33:
A Development Zone for the Northern Regions shall be created, with an Interregional Consultative Council made up of representatives of the relevant Regional Assemblies and tasked exclusively with coordinating efforts and resources in order to accelerate local socio-economic development and related questions.
Page 9, SECTION IV: SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT, Chapter 12: Specific Development Strategy, Article 35:
The Strategy aims to raise the Northern Regions to the same level as the rest of the country in terms of development indicators, within the next 10 to 15 years. The Consultative Council for the Development Zone shall monitor its implementation supported by the competent authorities and institutions.
Page 9-10, SECTION IV: SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT, Chapter 13: Mobilisation to promote development in the Northern Regions, Article 38:
The Development Zone of the Northern Regions shall be prioritised in terms of the provisions for State support in the present Agreement.
To this end, the Parties shall take all short, medium and long-term measures listed in Annex, relating to socio-economic and cultural development.
The Government shall submit a document following the first meetings of the CSA, specifying its commitments in this area, the resources which it plans to mobilise, and the timetable for implementation of the commitments made, in particular in the following areas:
- basic social services;
- development of human resources;
- food security;
- rural development (agriculture, livestock farming and pastoral activities);
- structural infrastructure to open up the Northern Regions;
- mining and solar energy;
- employment, particularly for women, young people and former combatants;
- creation of local enterprises;
- reinsertion and rehabilitation of repatriated and displaced persons and other vulnerable groups;
- handicrafts, tourism, commerce and communications; and
- education and culture.
Page 15, Annex 1: Interim period:
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Objectives of the interim period
An interim period shall begin immediately after signing the present Agreement. During this period, while awaiting the adoption and entry into force of the legal and governance provisions of the present Agreement, exceptional measures concerning the administration of the northern regions of Mali shall be implemented. The objectives of these provisions shall be:
- To guarantee the adoption of the legislative and regulatory texts, including constitutional texts, enabling a new institutional and political, security and defence, economic, social and cultural, and justice and national reconciliation, framework to be established and rendered operational;
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Page 22, Annex 3: Economic, social and cultural development projects and actions to undertake in the Northern regions of Mali over the short, medium and long term:
I. Interim measures
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4. Reactivation of the local economy
Supplying the means to reactivate agricultural and livestock production by:
- Relaunching family and community agriculture;
- Distributing agricultural inputs;
- Organising vaccination and treatment campaigns for livestock;
- Repairing mechanical pumps in managed zones;
- Setting up revenue-generating programmes for women and young people within the sectors of agriculture, stock-breeding, small business, fishing and crafts.
Page 22, Annex 3: Economic, social and cultural development projects and actions to undertake in the Northern regions of Mali over the short, medium and long term:
I. Interim measures
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Implementation methods:
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- The Sub-Committee on “Socio-Economic Development Questions” of the Monitoring Committee shall be charged with the monitoring and periodic evaluation of the project implementation. The joint committee shall be composed of the Parties and the Mediation Team, consisting of one representative of each Party. The Committee shall have recourse to anybody whose advice it considers useful. It will conduct its evaluation meetings as necessary, at the request of the Mediation Team;
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- The Government shall pay special attention to the protection, assistance and promotion of vulnerable social groups, notably, orphans, child or female heads of families, traumatised children, widows, young delinquents, physically and mentally disabled persons, etc.;
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Page 23-24, Annex 3: Economic, social and cultural development projects and actions to undertake in the Northern regions of Mali over the short, medium and long term:
persons, etc.;
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II. Medium and long term measures
Within the framework of the Specific Development Strategy described in Section IV of the Agreement on socio-economic and cultural development of the northern Regions, multi-annual special plans for the Development Zone for the Northern regions of Mali will be set up and comprise principally of the following projects and actions:
In the area of rural development, food security and the environment, the following shall be progressed:
- Support for producers with seeds, fertilisers and other inputs;
- Support for technical services for the reconstruction of vegetable and animal genetic resources;
- Strengthening of animal health by the rehabilitation of regional and local veterinary centres;
- Improvement of health coverage for livestock of each region
- Setting-up supply and logistical services, and technical expertise and the support for return of technical personnel;
- The promotion of small scale fishing ponds, floating cages and fish introduction in lakes;
- Food distribution to the populations most vulnerable to food scarcity;
- Strengthening of national capacity to ensure food security;
- Improving the efficiency of early warning systems against famine;
- Improving the capacity of the National Security Stock (Stock National de Sécurité) and communal cereal stores;
- Supplying foodstuffs to the most vulnerable populations;
- Improving cereal exchanges between deficit and surplus zones;
- Supporting the production and marketing of local livestock;
- Combatting the silting of the River Niger, tributaries and principal lakes, and supply channels;
- Supporting the planting of riverbanks to supply firewood and timber;
- Protecting local wildlife and habitats with a view to developing eco-tourism;
- Combatting acidification;
- Assisting research in agro-pastoral matters.
Within the framework of the relaunch of the local economy, the following shall be progressed:
- Reintegration of women and young people and their organisations into private collective initiatives;
- Promotion of income-generating activities for women or young people grouped in social enterprises (economic or cooperative associations or collectives);
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- Support for school canteens;
- Equipping schools with adequate and appropriately trained teachers;
- Supply of learning materials to students and technical equipment to teachers;
- Launch of an extended communication programme to encourage children, especially girls, to attend school;
- Development of university centres within the northern regions, with facilities appropriate to the specific conditions in each;
- Acceleration of the decentralisation of higher education by the creation of Higher Education Institutions (Institutions d’Enseignement Supérieur) in the northern regions
- Upgrade of training and employment centres in the regions of Kidal, Gao and Timbuktu;
- Establishment of a public technical school (Lycée Technique Public) within each region;
- Construction of a professional training centre for each district (‘cercle’) within the Northern region;
- Supply of drinking water to vulnerable populations;
- Water supply infrastructure rehabilitation in Gao;
- Water supply infrastructure rehabilitation in Timbuktu;
- Construction of an aqueduct In Esseri – In Tebzaz – Kidal.
Infrastructure and reconstruction
Page 23-24, Annex 3: Economic, social and cultural development projects and actions to undertake in the Northern regions of Mali over the short, medium and long term:
Within the framework of infrastructure development, the following shall be progressed:
- Construction of main roads:
• link Kidal, Gao and Timbuktu to the Transaharan highway;
• Gao – Bourem Taoussa;
• Bourem – Kidal;
• Kidal – Timiaouine (Algerian frontier);
• Anefis – Tessalit – BordjBajiMoctar;
• Kidal – Menaka;
• Ansongo – Menaka – Anderamboukane – Niger border;
• Goma Coura – Timbuktu;
• Douentza – Timbiktu;
• Douentza – Gao (improvement;)
• Gossi – Gourma – Rharous;
• Piste Bore – Korientze-Aka;
• Piste Mounia – Diafarabe – Dia – Tenenkou – Youwarou;
• Piste Indelimane – Niger border;
• Piste Ansongo – Tessit – Burkino Faso border;
• Lere – Fassala.
- Construction of airports at Kidal, Tessalit, Taoudeni, Menaka, Gao (improvement), and Goundam.
- Construction of diesel and solar power stations in the areas of Timbuktu, Goundam, Dire, Niafunke, Gao, Menaka, Kidal, Tessalit, Gourma Rharous, Ansongo, TinEssako, Abeibara, Bourem, Douentza, Tenikou, Youwarou, Lere.
- Link the three northern regions to the Regional Structural project of the Trans-Saharan Gazoduc.
- Construction of river ports at Bamba, Dire and Youwarou.
Within the framework of improving access to basic social services, the following shall be progressed:
- Follow-up of actions to rehabilitate degraded health services, and to construct and equip new community health centres;
- Construction of new hospitals at Menaka and Kidal;
- Improvement of access for Northern students to cooperation programmes for study grants;
- Improvement in the supply of health services to nomadic populations, by the deployment of mobile and polyvalent services to offer preventative and curative services;
- Initiation of advanced strategies within the area of heath and health in the community;
- Construction of new schools appropriate to the educational programme, in the regions of Timbuktu, Gao and Kidal;
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