Mali - Emergency Safety Nets Project (Jigiséméjiri) (English)

Ratings for the Emergency Safety Nets Project (Jigiséméjiri) for Mali were as follows: outcomes were moderately satisfactory, the Bank performance was satisfactory, and the monitoring and evaluation quality was substantial. Some lessons learned included: Jigisémégiri created the necessary conditions for the creation of the Unified Social Registry (USR), including a conducive political setting, strong political acceptance, coordination and collaboration with development partners, a competent management unit, and adequate technological solutions. The inherent complexity of LIPW associated with the limited time for planning and the high number of microprojects has hindered their integration into the broader safety nets project. Women's participation is key to promote intergenerational impact and could be further enhanced by including them as recipients of cash transfers. The fact that heads of household (mostly men) were targeted as cash transfer recipients limited the project's impact on women's empowerment and on health and child nutrition knowledge. A pilot in Koulikoro provided evidence of the feasibility of targeting women with mobile payments in Mali. Well-developed MIS modules that allow electronic data collection to represent the first step toward an effective decentralized monitoring system. The cash transfer module was regularly fed by service delivery agencies and could make timely and comprehensive information available, but this did not happen with the other modules. Most data were collected manually, which impaired data availability, quality, security, efficiency, and timeliness.