Sankore Institute / Mali

The Institute

A Mali-based research, advisory and support practice connecting applied research, decisions and action.

Sankore Institute fieldwork

Sankore Institute works with public institutions, civil-society organisations, technical and financial partners, NGOs, international agencies and the private sector.

Its approach is participatory, inclusive and grounded in evidence.

Our conviction

Knowledge matters when it becomes action.

Data gains meaning when it meets a story. Strategy becomes credible when it is rooted in a territory. Impact lasts when stakeholders can continue without us.

Know · decide · transfer
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A living institute
01 / Grounding
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The field is not a stage. It is the starting point.

Every mission begins by listening to stakeholders and reading the context with care.

02 / Method
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Connect voices, evidence and institutions.

Our analyses combine qualitative and quantitative methods to clarify the choices ahead.

03 / Transfer
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Leave behind tools that keep working.

The mission continues through the skills, frameworks and practices transferred to teams.

Participatory working session facilitated by Sankore Institute
Practical digital data exercise

One continuous chain

Research, decision and transfer belong to the same movement.

Sankore Institute works across the full assignment cycle: understanding the need, designing the response, supporting implementation, measuring change and leaving useful knowledge behind.

  1. 01Frame the right question
  2. 02Build the method with stakeholders
  3. 03Turn evidence into a usable direction
  4. 04Transfer tools and learning

Territories of work

Read every territory from the field.

Our missions connect public decisions with lived realities: the same methodological rigour, with responses always shaped by place.

BamakoMoptiSégouKoutialaBossangoaMongoumba
Territories documented in the missions presented on this website.
Editorial atlas of territories documented through Sankore Institute missions
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About Sankore

Return to the institute’s mission, vision and way of working.

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Our team

Meet the disciplines that come together around each assignment.

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Our expertise

See the six practices that structure our assignments.

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Fieldwork

Enter four documented missions and their working methods.

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Knowledge library

Discover how future resources are verified before publication.

A useful next step

Bring us the question before it becomes a brief.

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