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Mali: Case Study - Reducing conflicts around water points - The experience of SOLIDARITÉS INTERNATIONAL in the Kidal region (March 2017)

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1. INTRODUCTION

1.1 SOLIDARITÉS INTERNATIONAL in Mali and in the Kidal region

Following the political and humanitarian crisis that started early 2012, SOLIDARITÉS INTERNATIONAL deployed a response team in the country in May 2012. The organisation intervened in the Kidal area as early as 2013 together with Médecins du Monde Belgium in health centres with funds from UNICEF for an integrated intervention in health (MdM Belgium) and WaSH (SI). After MDM-Belgique left the area in 2014, SOLIDARITÉS INTERNATIONAL continued WaSH activities in other health centres, resumed the Severe Acute Malnutrition screening and treatment component through a WaSH in Nut approach, and also began considering agropastoral activities linked to issues of access to water at community level.

SOLIDARITÉS INTERNATIONAL therefore reoriented its intervention in the area towards community WaSH, this being a particularly vital need in this agro-pastoral context, in which the whole population depends on this resource to live and survive. Today, SOLIDARITÉS INTERNATIONAL is the only WASH actor working in the region and the only NGO continuously present since 2013. It has acquired a good understanding of the main issues and challenges at stake.