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Mali's Rural Communes: A Potential Catalyst for Improving Child Nutrition?

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James Tefft (Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University)
Daouda Keita
Victoria Wise
Valerie Kelly ()
John Staatz

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This bulletin examines the potential participation of communes in interventions to improve child nutrition in Mali. The analysis of interviews with commune mayors and their staffs resulted in the identification of three key challenges that pilot projects would need to address in working with districts, communes, and communities to establish sustainable processes to carry out these nutrition related actions: (1) Developing communication strategies to raise awareness of nutrition problems and solutions; (2) Identifying specific roles for the communes in a multisectoral, community-based approach; and (3) Mobilizing reliable sources of funding to implement community-driven actions. This bulletin discusses the nature of these challenges as well as our perceptions of what needs to be done by communes and those working with them to meet them as part of a pilot program.

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Paper provided by Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University in its series International Development Policy Syntheses with number 63.

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Keywords: food security; food policy; child nutrition;

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  1. Dembele, Niama Nango & Staatz, John M., 1999. "The Impact Of Market Reform On Agricultural Transformation In Mali," Staff Papers 11717, Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics. [Downloadable!]
  2. James Tefft & Valerie Kelly, 2002. "Understanding and Reducing Child Malnutrition in Mali: Interim Research Findings for the Project on Linkages between Child Nutrition and Agricultural Growth," International Development Policy Syntheses 60, Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University. [Downloadable!]
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  1. Victoria Wise & Fatimata Ouattara & James Tefft & Valerie Kelly & John Staatz, 2002. "Improving Nutrition Outcomes through Community Health Initiatives," International Development Policy Syntheses 62, Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University. [Downloadable!]
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  2. Wise, Victoria & Ouattara, Fatimata & Tefft, James & Kelly, Valerie & Staatz, John, 2003. "Amelioration des resultats nutritionnels grace aux initiatives de sante communautaires," Food Security III Papers 11312, Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics. [Downloadable!]
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