Organization of ID-Sahel

Created in 2000 and expanded in 2004, ID-Sahel is an office of studies, advice and training in Mali.

Its headquarters are in Bamako and has a branch in Guinea Conakry since 2012, Guinea Bissau, Niger, Benin and Burkina Faso. It is led by four (4) specialists including a woman who has distinctive skills and diverse experiences of several years in the national and international consultation.

ID-Sahel has other human resources at the level of the University, the big schools of Mali and recruits consultants who have varied skills. 
Its capital of expertise is enriched by its strategy of externality (outsourcing) which gives him a horizon of competence of international stature.

Who are they?

Their identity is revealed through their Vision, their missions and our values.

Their vision

Make the Sahel a pole of global economic growth.

Their missions

1. The promotion of skills centers or championship.
2. Action-reflection in a complementary approach.
3. Capitalization for the benefit of the greatest number.
4. Think global and act locally for a coherent well-being.

Their values ​​:

1. Man, their beginning and their finality.
2. Respect for diversity in all its forms.
3. The necessary harmony between knowledge, know-how and savoir-être.
4. Accountability, transversality in all their actions.

ID-Sahel offers services in the fields of economic, social and cultural development in general and, in particular, in the following areas: vocational training, professional reintegration, environment, socio-economic and impact studies , monitoring projects and programs, democratic governance, project management.

ID-Sahel also attaches particular importance to the gender aspects, vulnerability and participation in all its interventions.

Since its creation and, especially since its enlargement, ID-Sahel performs the services alone or with other consulting firms in Mali and abroad. He favors professionalism and ethics in his interventions. 
The primary objective of ID-Sahel is to learn from the experiences gained in cooperation with clients and share them with other projects and organizations in order to participate effectively in sustainable development processes.

Strategic orientations

The office consultants have the skills and expertise in the following areas:

• Local development planning and urban planning,
• Development of a layout plan,
• Water engineering and hydroagricultural development,
• Engineering Training and Education,
• Decentralization and spatial planning.

Democratic governance

• Project management,
• Diagnostic, basic and feasibility studies,
• Studies of watershed developments,
• Forest management and hydro-agricultural studies,
• Environmental and Social Impact Studies and Climate Change,
• Socio - economic and agro sylvo pastoral study,
• Monitoring evaluation of projects and programs,
• Advisory support to peasant and socio-professional groups,
• Crafts, literacy,
• Computer Assisted Mapping (CAD),
• Acquisition and interpretation of satellite images,
• Installation of mapping equipment, GIS and training,
• Geographic database and GIS development,
• Environmental awareness and HIV.

STATUTES AND AREAS OF INTERVENTION

• ID-Sahel has in its midst a multidisciplinary team specialized in the different fields of Environment and rural development, experts in pedology, inventories (forestry), characterization of ecosystems, development and management of forest massifs, feasibility studies and environmental impact ...).
• ID-Sahel has in its midst a GIS unit and development of master plans, development plans and development of region, circle, commune and terroir, management plans and forest management classified and protected areas, watershed management scheme.
• ID-Sahel has recent materials, tools and media made up of satellite image processing software, aerial photography and thematic mapping.
• ID-Sahel performs on behalf of the State and its development partners various projects and services in the fields of the environment, rural development, decentralized governance and micro-finance, particularly in the fight against poverty.

SKILLS DOMAINS

GENDER, GOVERNANCE AND DEVELOPMENT ISSUES

• Environmental Education,
• Family and quality of life,
• Capacity development,
• Decentralized governance.

CONSTITUTION AND MANAGEMENT OF DATA BANKS

• Design and organization of data collection,
• Design and implementation of a relational model of monitoring (database),
• Establishment of a Geographic Information System (GIS),
• Design and intelligent management of information,
• Training in GIS,
• Remote sensing (photo-interpretation of satellite images).

INVENTORY, CLASSIFICATION, EVALUATION AND CARTOGRAPHY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND THEIR TYPES OF USE

• Inventory, evaluation and classification of biophysical potentialities (soil, water, vegetation).
• Study and characterization of production systems related to biophysical potentialities.

DEVELOPMENT OF THE TERRITORY, WATERSHEDS AND PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT

• Development of a development and development plan of a region, a circle and a municipality.
• Development of village land development scheme.
• Development of watershed management plan.
• Problem of the relationship between land and territory in the context of decentralization.
• Study of the habitat component in the dynamics of land use in rural areas.
• Sanitation of the urban environment and quality of life.

MANAGEMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES

• Management and management of forest formations and agro-pastoral systems.
• Management of ponds and watersheds of hydrographic network within the framework of the development of the village soil (construction of micro-dam of retention, stabilization of the dunes, restoration of the banks).

EVALUATION OF PROJECTS AND STUDIES OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS

• Study of the technical, socio-economic and financial feasibility of the projects.
• Ex-post evaluation of local or regional rural development projects.
• Participatory evaluation of micro-projects at the village level.
• Study and evaluation of the impact of rural production systems on the quality of life.
• Environmental impact study of development projects.

DEVELOPMENT OF A FERTILE PARTNERSHIP WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF BAMAKO

Large countries have developed largely on the basis of a close partnership with academic resources that provide a pool of experience, skills, knowledge and know-how. Some countries in their subregion have understood and have drawn on this experience (the case of Senegal, Burkina Faso, Benin). 
ID sahel in its expertise continues to exploit this windfall to always promote a sustainable development of national and international dimension.