Applied research · Mali

Understanding how corruption affects access to essential services.

A study attentive to lived experience and differentiated gender effects across six services that shape everyday life.

Findings under validationMay—June 2026 Bamako · Koulikoro · Mopti · Gao
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Applied research · Mali

Context

01

The situation behind the assignment.

The work focuses on health, education, justice, land, water and electricity, with attention to lived experience and differentiated gender effects.

The working question
Which corruption mechanisms influence access to essential services, and how do their effects vary across people and territories?

Method

02
01 / Document

Connect six services and four territories

Organise fieldwork around concrete situations that shape access to services.

02 / Listen

Make room for lived experience

Combine interviews, group discussions and document analysis.

03 / Analyse

Surface mechanisms and differences

Connect materials to identify differences in experience and possible avenues for improvement.

Outputs and working materials

03

Study covering six essential services

Material from interviews, group discussions and document analysis

Territorial reading across four study areas

Detailed findings — subject to validation

Learning and safeguards

04

Do not publish before evidence can be protected, sourced and validated.

Detailed findings remain subject to validation. Sensitive visuals and portraits of research participants are not distributed without documented permission.

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