Grants and Contributions:

Activities supporting the Mali action plan concerning COVID-19 at Segou, Mopti, Gao and Timbuktu

7417009 P007233001 & P007233002

$13,337,089.00

Feb 26, 2020 - Mar 7, 2025

P007233001: The Défi éducation des filles au Mali (DÉFI) [Girls' Education Challenge in Mali], funded by Global Affairs Canada through a maximum contribution of $12,070,449 over 5 years, will be implemented in Mali by Agriteam Canada Consulting Ltd. and its principal Canadian partners Farm Radio International and Education International. The initiative will contribute to an overall improvement in demand, access and retention, mainly for girls, but also for boys, in formal and non-formal education programs in conflict-affected communities in Ségou, Mopti, Gao and Timbuktu. This will be achieved by: reducing harmful social norms and other gender-related barriers affecting girls' education in terms of demand, access and retention, through a communication approach based on interactive radio; improving formal and non-formal gender-sensitive education services for girls and boys; and improving public sector performance in the provision of equitable, gender-sensitive and evidence-based education services, and ensuring the consolidation and integration of the results from the other two components. Strategies will be adopted to reduce barriers to girls' education, including interactive radio programmes, listening groups in which participants can safely express themselves, digital innovations, etc. The project will support the vocational training of girls who can no longer access primary education and will provide remedial classes for girls with learning difficulties. P007233002: The COVID-19 pandemic that started in 2020 has created a sanitary crisis in Mali that significantly affected the education sector with school closures and a forced shift, often difficult, to distance education. Preventions and counteracting measures seriously impacted the education system in Mali. Since mid-2020, Mali has developed a national strategy to fight back to which technical and financial partners, such as Alinea, are aligning their activities. The National Education Ministry of Mali has developed an action plan for the regions of Segou, Mopti, Gao and Timbuktu, particularly in the less well served regions. The activities to fight against the impact of COVID-19 developed by Alinea will aim at supporting this action plan in order to assist in prevention, continuity of teaching and the reopening of schools.

Global Affairs Canada

The Ministry of national education is in a position to deploy prevention and fight against COVID measures in the schools of the Segou, Mopti, Gao and Timbuktu regions.
The membres of the Teaching Academies, Pedagogical Activity Centers and School Management Committees are trained, sensitized and fitted for the return to school of students.
Communities are made aware of prevention measures and barrier gestures

Calgary, Alberta, CA T2X 1Z2

064-2021-2022-Q4-00001

Contribution

Grants and Contributions

120560594

For-profit organization

The value of the agreement is changed to $13,337,089 CAD.

Feb 7, 2022

Alinea International Ltd

Calgary Midnapore

48008

International Development Assistance Program

The main purpose on the International Development Assistance Program is to reduce poverty for those living in countries where Global Affairs Canada engages in international development.