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\nFor more than two decades, IntraHealth International, a Global Communities Partner, has worked with local public and private partners to support Mali’s capacity to strengthen its health systems and improve access to high-quality maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH), family planning, and other essential services. This includes addressing specific needs in areas such as preventing and treating obstetric fistula and improving school sanitation facilities and good health and hygiene practices for vulnerable adolescent girls. IntraHealth has also assisted Mali with major health systems improvements, notably in preservice education and in-service training for nurses and midwives, policies and standard operating procedures, and the country’s digital information system to plan and manage its health workforce, including launching an eLearning platform.<\/p>\n\t
We work hand-in-hand with key partners at all levels of the health system (including civil society organizations and private associations) and in communities (with local elected officials and religious, women, and youth leaders) to implement high-impact, sustainable interventions that can bring better health care to Malians today and tomorrow.<\/p>\n
\nThe C2C project’s investments lay the foundation for a more resilient health workforce, ready to meet maternal and newborn health challenges in underserved communities across Mali, Niger, and Senegal. With funding from Takeda Pharmaceutical Company, C2C supports 12 private health training institutions in the three countries to implement a competency-based approach that considers population and student needs and to partner effectively with the public sector. The project is also helping the schools establish up-to-date skills labs and clinical practicum sites and develop eLearning platforms for access to educational resources and self-training. At the end of the project’s third year, 7.046 nursing and midwifery students-74% of whom are women-are benefitting from updated curricula adapted to local clinical practice. This has helped to achieve a more than 95% pass rate on students’ national exams across the 12 partner schools.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t![\"Mali](\"https:\/\/globalcommunities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Mali-1-scaled.jpg\" "\\"Mali")
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Through this regional award from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Global Communities\/IntraHealth is working to accelerate family planning uptake and improve MNCH indicators in the critical pre- and post-pregnancy period through integrated client-centered postpartum family planning (PPFP), MNCH, and nutrition services delivered at scale in Francophone West Africa. INSPiRE is demonstrating that providing a comprehensive package of essential services to mother and child during the same visit-at four entry points: antenatal care, delivery, postpartum care, and essential newborn care\/Immunization-improves utilization, quality, and cost-effectiveness of services.<\/p>\n
As of June 2025, INSPiRE’s integration model is being implemented in 14,826 health facilities in Burkina Faso, C\u00f4te d’Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, and Togo, through synergistic coordination with the Francophone Africa Regional Community of Practice for Integrated PPFP\/MNCH-N, chaired by the West African Health Organization, which supports resource and partner mobilization for scale-up. Since 2019, demonstration sites of the project have seen a 275% increase in PPFP use in supported health facilities along with a 380% increase in well-baby visits for growth monitoring.<\/p>\n
As a partner to EngenderHealth on this global project (2021-2025) funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), IntraHealth led cross-cutting technical assistance in Mali focused on:<\/p>\n
After the pivotal family planning conference in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, in 2011, multiple donors joined nine governments to initiate the Ouagadougou Partnership, committed to elevate family planning in West Africa. With support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, IntraHealth managed the Ouagadougou Partnership Coordination Unit (OPCU) from 2012 to 2022, which raised the partnership’s visibility and helped member countries develop and implement costed implementation plans for family planning. Between 2012 and 2015, the partnership was responsible for 1.18 million new users of modern family planning, a 40% regional increase. Building on this success, the nine governments embarked on an acceleration phase and had reached 7.1 million users by 2022. IntraHealth transferred the OPCU to Senegal-based Speak Up Africa in 2021.<\/p>\n
IntraHealth partnered with the government of Mali to strengthen its health workforce through this USAID-funded project (2017-2020). Mali HRH aimed to scale up progress in maternal and child survival and protect citizens from emerging health threats such as Ebola and pandemic influenza. Project achievements included:<\/p>\n
With funding from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Dutch Embassy, the IntraHealth-led CS4FP project (2011-2020) worked with adolescents and young adults to collaboratively design solutions to improve the ability of youth to make informed decisions and better access respectful, quality family planning services. CS4FP helped establish and support national civil society coalitions for family planning in nine West African countries to raise a collective voice in planning with governments to meet family planning commitments. The project partnered with 364 youth ambassadors from five countries to reach more than 100,000 adolescents through youth-led campaigns.<\/p>\n
students, faculty and staff receiving
new or enhanced health care skills
and knowledge in 2024<\/p>\n\t\t\t
qualified health professionals trained in 2024<\/p>\n\t\t\t
percentage of women who received
family planning services within 48 hours after giving birth with GATPA and whose newborn was breastfed within one hour of birth<\/p>\n
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