All publications: Mali

Can digital services help tackle the extension service dilemma?

Evidence and lessons on improving farmer practices at scale from the ILO’s An Ka Baara project in Mali.

ILO WAEMU youth country briefs

ILO Working Paper 152

Compliance with Labour Regulations in West African Countries : A Multi-Dimensional and Dynamic Analysis

This paper examines compliance with labour regulations across West Africa, revealing widespread and persistent gaps between legal protections and workers’ actual conditions. It highlights the need to strengthen enforcement and promote decent work to...

ILO Working Paper 151

Do productivity gains translate into adequate wages? Firm-level evidence from Ethiopia (LIMMS, 2018–2020)

This study provides a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between firm productivity, wages, and employment dynamics in Ethiopia’s manufacturing sector between 2018 and 2020. Using firm-level data from the Large and Medium Manufacturing and...

Understanding informality and child labour in sub-Saharan Africa

This study examines the interrelationship of child labour and informality in 22 sub-Saharan countries.

Health sector investment impacts on employment and economic growth: A panel ARDL analysis in the West African Economic and Monetary Union...

Project results in Mali

Results of the CLEAR Cotton project in Mali

This factsheet presents the main achievements of the CLEAR Cotton project in Mali.

Communication Strategies on Child Labour: From awareness raising to action

A desk review with preliminary design ideas for campaigns in Africa and Europe

Brief

All work and no play

Using a systemic lens to determine the economic root causes to child labour

ILO alliance with G5 Sahel

With a population of over 300 million and a rising trend of urbanization, the Sahel region offers huge opportunities for its populations. At the same time, however, the region is facing an increase in extremism, terrorism and criminality, fueled by...

Accelerating action for the elimination of child labour in supply chains in Africa (ACCEL Africa)

"Combating child labour through education” and “Combating child labour through skills training for older children” (Final Evaluation...

Project: GLO/14/27/NET and INT/10/07/NET - Evaluation Consultant: Rafael Muñoz Sevilla, Grace William Maiso, Samuel Munynwiny, Mamadou Boulkassoum Traore, George Martin Sirait and Ana María Seleme

Independent evaluation of the ILO's strategies on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, Volume I Full Report - Rev. Ed. (2015)

Covering the period from 2008 to 2014, this evaluation reviews ILO’s strategy to advance Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work (FPRW), namely: the right to freedom of association and collective bargaining is widely known and exercised (Outcome...

The Taqeem Fund: Results-based monitoring and evaluation for youth employment in the MENA region: Public-Private Partnership

To support youth employment initiatives and improving the effectiveness of their programs, the ILO initiated work on results-based monitoring and evaluation. This new public-private partnership (PPP) supports a select group of small and medium-sized...

The twin challenges of child labour and educational marginalisation in the ECOWAS region - An overview

As part of the efforts to address the present urgent situation, Governments and regional institutions have developed the ECOWAS Child Policy and the accompanying Strategic Plan of Action for the ECOWAS Child Policy, as well as the West Africa...

Governance of labour migration and its links to development in Mali, Mauritania and Senegal (Final Evaluation Summary)

Project RAF/09/01/SPA- Evaluation consultant enterprise: EvaluanDo

Tackling child labour through education (TACKLE) (Final External Evaluation Summary)

Project: INT/05/24/EEC Evaluation Consultants: Mr. Seán J. Burke, Dr. Bernardita Cárdenas, Gaspar Estevao, Joycelyn T. Williams, Ruth Jankee, Dr. John Mugo, Désiré Razafindrazaka, Bengaly Abraham, Tracy-Ann Shields, Kombah Pessima, Samia Nihar, Joan...

Cooperation to address the worst forms of child labour in agriculture: Support to international agricultural partnership (Midterm Review...

Project GLO/09/58/USA - Consultant: Dr. Una Murray

Report

Child labour and education in Mali

Extending social security to African migrant workers and their families (RBSA Evaluation Summary)

Project RAF/08/02/RBS - Evaluation consultants: Stanley A. Asangalisah