The challenges of governance, development and security in the central regions of Mali / [electronic resource] Mamadou Bodian, Aurélien Tobie and Myriam Marending

SIP2023

"March 2020"

This report is based on a study that combines both quantitative and qualitative data to provide an evidence- based analysis of local perspectives in Mopti and Ségou. It highlights how the people there understand and respond to the governance, development and security challenges they face.

Since 2015 Mali’s central regions of Mopti and Ségou have become insecure hotspots at the confluence of interconnected challenges in terms of governance, development and security. Although international interventions involving a full range of actors and sectors are being increasingly reoriented towards these regions, the sustainability of the responses depends on their ability to draw on the needs and priorities of local communities.