There are considerable problems relating to the management and coordination of aid by the Malian authorities. There is no national entity to coordinate and manage aid. Rather than Mali public agencies, it is the donors which do their best to coordinate aid efforts. No government could be expected to effectively deal with the multitude of plans, programmes, studies, strategies, reforms, forecasts, frameworks etc. which are in force in Mali. The use of TC is often driven by a need to spend aid resources rather than by the need to respond to local development constraints.
Problems are also considerable on the part of the donors.
There is a lack of information on the annual costs to manage the portfolio. Parallel structures are frequently used. More and more competent Malians are recruited to work in donor funded projects, whereas there is no clear or uniform policy as regards salaries for staff employed by donors. Besides, there is only a low national counterpart contribution to the costs of projects and programmes. Relatively few audits are carried out and evaluation reports are often not published.