Thesis Direction
Pr Nathalie Mitev and Pr Emmanuel Kamdem
Thesis Title
Design and implementation of an integrative model for climate adaptation financing in Mali: the case of the Global Environmental Fund (GEF)
Abstract
Our research analyses different impacts of mechanisms of classic funding, in the fight against “climate change” (CC), following the problematic of funding of climatic adaptation (CA) in Mali. The targeted objective is to propose an alternative to classic sources of funding which awards very little importance to socio-cultural, ethnographic, religious and linguistics context in Mali.
The empiric study has been realized with the qualitative methodology which permits to constitute a sample of sixty (60) persons who are representative of several socio-professional categories in Mali. The participants have been selected according to socio-economic standards and in accordance with the needs of the research. The ethnographic methodology approach, strongly recommended for the qualitative research enrooted in African context has been privileged ( Diop-Sall, 2018). The interviews carried out have permitted to do a focus on the studied case, the Funds for world environment (FWE), to understand the perceptions of funding impacts of the fight against the effects of climate Change (CC) and for Climatic Adaptation (CA) in Mali. The analysis of the limits of theses impacts has conducted to propose an integrator model of the funding of CA in Mali.
The method used in this exploratory research has required many round trips on the fields of which the access was particularly difficult considering the current politic and security crisis in Mali. That context has considerably complicated and extended the guiding of our research.
The main results show the strong implication of the populations, and the considerable taking into account of realities of Malians local communities, in the elaboration of decisional process and the working out of the a local adaptation project, can strongly contribute to assure the lasting development for the benefit of the concerned populations. Besides, our results permit to notice that the endogenous sources of funding are a factor of social cohesion and preservation of social peace within the local communities. These results also permit to understand that the funding of CA, by local resources and the ones transferred by Malians of Diaspora, permit to create the best conditions to limit the expropriation of the lands of peasants, the temptations of immigration and rural exodus.
The adapted ethnographic qualitative methodology doesn’t allow any generalization to other contexts. However, our research opens new perspectives for future researches on new forms of funding of climate adaptation in other African contexts similar to the one of Mali particularly in Sahel countries.