Under what conditions will civil society organizations (CSOs) sanction corruption (the private use of public funds)?

In rural West Africa, the rate of out-of-school children is high and delayed entry to primary school is common, particularly for girls.

Irrigation is increasingly promoted in Africa south of the Sahara, but the benefit streams of small-scale irrigation in Mali remain largely unknown.

Small-scale irrigation has significant potential to increase crop productivity in Mali, in particular given growing climate change impacts on the country and region.

We assess the impact of conflict exposure on households’ food security in rural areas of Mopti, Mali over the period 2012-17.

A civil conflict broke out in northern Mali in 2012, which is continuing to the present day. Very little is known about its impact on civilians.

Economic resilience requires future-oriented decision-making around income generation and protection in case of shocks.

Small-scale irrigation has been identified as a potential adaptation strategy for climate change and boosting food security and livelihoods in dry regions.

Irrigation is an important strategy to increase agricultural productivity, improve nutrition security and reduce climate-related risks in rural Africa, but adoption of this technology has been low.

This paper exploits a unique panel dataset of households in Mopti whose baseline was collected in January 2012, just prior to the outset of the civil war in Mali.

Our paper aims to investigating the impact of conflict on population displacement, agricultural production and agricultural assets, and the mitigating effect of food aid. The paper is structured in the following way.

Mali's national cash transfer program (Jigisémèjiri), targeting household heads (primarily men), cause significant decreases in IPV in polygamous households.

Political competition is widely recognized as a mediator of public goods provision through its salutary effect on incumbents’ electoral incentives.

Using a participatory rural appraisal approach, a series of qualitative studies were conducted in four countries facing negative impacts of climate change—Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Kenya and Mali—in order to determine men’s and women’s perceptions of

A cross-country comparison using the Net-map method

In this paper, the relationship of women’s individual and joint property ownership and the level of women’s input into household decisionmaking is explored with data from India, Mali, Malawi, and Tanzania.

This paper investigates differences in household production and consumption among small- and large-scale irrigators to assess whether the scale of an irrigation project increases household welfare in Mali.

"Significant changes in the agricultural sector in northern Mali suggest that irrigation has made a large contribution to welfare increases over the past eight years.