Mali Institutional Development Program Support

Results achieved as of the end of the project (March 2020) include: (1) managers from the Commissariat au développement institutionnel and several Malian departments have strengthened their capacities in terms of results-based management human resources management gender equality communication and change management; (2) a public servant compensation system partially based on performance has been developed; (3) an employment equity program has been put in place in the central public service and in territorial administrations; (4) three innovative initiatives were selected and funded to meet the challenges of public sector reform: (i) future women senior public servants in Mali; (ii) women’s skills inventory project; and (iii) women citizens’ anti-financial delinquency initiative. The first two are in response to the lack of employment equity within the public service and the lack of women’s representation especially in the highest positions by putting new human resources management mechanisms in place. The purpose of the third initiative is to strengthen ties between civil society and the Malian government in order to reduce financial delinquency through this new association. These initiatives are innovative because they introduce new tools and mechanisms within the Malian government to meet the public sector reform challenges identified. All of these results help increase the capacities of the Commissariat au développement institutionnel and those of the other departments involved in implementing the Mali Institutional Development Program in order to successfully reform Mali’s public sector.