Mali - Bamako Urban Resilience Project (English)

The Recipient has maintained within the ministry in charge of urbanism, the Project Coordination Unit (PCU), with adequate staff hired pursuant to terms of reference qualifications, integrity and experience satisfactory to the Association, and resources satisfactory to the Association. [...] The Government of Mali (GoM) has recently prepared and adopted a strategy for the mitigation of conflict and violence risks (2020-2023), and improvement in living conditions of the population is an important pillar to directly address the root causes of conflict. [...] The Bamako ‘Vision 2030’ includes investments to, among others, densify the commercial center of the city, minimize heavy transport and unloading in the city through construction of dry ports, and rebalance the development of the city through moving some institutions and commercial activities to the right bank of the Niger River. [...] The limited ability of the District and other communes in the metropolitan area to collaborate is compounded by the absence of revenues from, and low level of investments in SWM in local budgets – US$0.03 per capita for the District of Bamako. [...] Local and international Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) will organize consultations and develop and implement a social and gender program addressing project-specific resettlement and livelihood issues through (a) the socio-economic reintegration of vulnerable groups such as the elderly, women, and children; and (b) the closure of urban dumpsites and construction of transfer points and materi