Mali - Rural Development Project of the Daye, Hamadja and Korioumé Plains (PADR-PDHK)

The Rural Development Project of the Daye, Hamadja and Korioumé Plains (PADR-PDHK) aims foremost to alleviate poverty through a reduction of the structural grain deficit of the region and through a decentralised and participatory rural development. It proposes a technical and organisational strengthening of the three irrigated blocks in the Tombouctou region with an area of 1,600 ha. The project does not plan heavy development works, it aims mainly to strengthen the technical reliability of the existing blocks and build the management cooperatives capacity in order that the objectives pursued (food security and poverty alleviation) could be integrated into a sustainable development process. It implementation of with the participation of the beneficiary population and particularly women, with the involvement and support of local decentralised structures, aims to perpetuate the management of the irrigated blocks by creating in future a Union of the three cooperatives, that is reliable and efficient. More globally, the project should permit to undertake a dynamic of development and self promotion of the rural area around the three plans. It comprises four main components, namely: A) irrigation developmen; B) institutional support; C) rural area development; and D) project management.