Project profile — Rehabilitating survivors and their resilience

• Mali (100.00%)

• Public sector policy and administrative management:
Public sector policy and administrative management (15110) (30.00%)
Legal and judicial development (15130) (10.00%)
Human rights (15160) (10.00%)
Women's rights organisations and movements, and government institutions (15170) (10.00%)
Ending violence against women and girls (15180) (10.00%)
• Conflict Prevention And Resolution, Peace And Security: Civilian peace-building, conflict prevention and resolution (15220) (30.00%)

• Gender equality (significant objective)
• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (not targeted)
• Participatory development and good governance (not targeted)
• Trade development (not targeted)
• Biodiversity (not targeted)
• Climate change mitigation (not targeted)
• Climate Change Adaptation (not targeted)
• Urban issues (not targeted)
• Desertification (not targeted)
• Children's issues (not targeted)
• Youth Issues (not targeted)
• Disaster Risk Reduction(DRR) (not targeted)
• Indigenous Issues (not targeted)
• Disability (not targeted)
• Nutrition (not targeted)
• ICT as a tool for development (not targeted)

This project aims to increase the effectiveness of the reconciliation and sustainable peacebuilding process, particularly for women, in the Bamako, Gao, Mopti and Timbuktu regions of Mali. This will help rebuild communities by providing financial support and technical assistance to victims of the conflicts arising from the 2012 crisis, including women, and the victims of the Al Mahdi case. The project also aims to have a positive impact on peace and security through inclusive dialogues and processes that focus on rebuilding social and family ties as well as building protective and resilient communities. It also provides technical support to the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission and the Administration Committee for Reparations to Victims. Project activities include: (1) conducting an awareness campaign for victims, particularly women victims, about their rights to reparation services, including the economic resilience facility ordered by the International Criminal Court; (2) providing individual and/or group rehabilitation and psychosocial support services to between 600 and 700 identified victims (at least 60% female) as well as supporting them in identifying and financing new income-generating activities; (3) supporting rehabilitation measures for victims of emblematic criminal events identified in collaboration with national civil society associations; (4) making recommendations and providing technical assistance to the Government of Mali for the effective implementation of the national reparations policy; and (5) setting up and providing technical support to a consortium of civil society organizations with expertise in supporting victims of sexual crimes. This project directly benefits about 1,300 people (at least 60% of whom are women and girls) in the Bamako, Gao, Mopti and Timbuktu regions of Mali.

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) increased participation of the Timbuktu community, especially women, in the transitional justice and reconciliation process; and (2) improved services and mechanisms for the reparation of harm in the most serious crimes, especially for women in the Bamako, Gao and Mopti regions.

Among the results obtained until March 2024, note the following: 1) 89 incidents and 1,571 victims of incidents of serious crimes of violation of human rights were identified in order to receive restorative justice for the violations committed against them over the last 10 years in Mali; 2) 386 people, including 279 women, benefited from community therapy as psychological support for victims; 3) 1,610 people including 903 women, improved their knowledge of economic activities through community meetings and workshops organized by the International Criminal Court; 4) 96 women members of the commemoration subcommittees have strengthened their capacities in female leadership allowing them to actively participate in community dialogues so that crimes involving sexual and gender-based violence are identified and so that women can have their specific needs addressed; 5) 1,940 victims including 613 women reached by the awareness and information campaign informing them of their rights to individual and collective reparation; 6) Strategic orientation committee established for the identification of emblematic criminal events, which will be the subject of reparation measures, bringing together 12 civil society organizations, including 4 women’s organizations, in a context of shrinking space of civil and democracy rights in Mali, so that their voices can be heard.

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