STAMP Mali Sustainable Technology Adaptation for Mali's Pastoralists G4AW:     http://g4aw.spaceoffice.nl/en/                   NSO:    http://www.spaceoffice.nl/en/

STAMP aims to improve resilience among climate affected pastoralists, through access to and use of geo-satellite derived data. This will result in an information service tailor-made to pastoralists’ information and decision making needs, giving them more predictability for their movements. The service will provide instant access - along the points of their different transhumance routes - to reliable information on :

    biomass availability and quality,
    surface water availability,
    herd concentration and
    market prices for livestock and staple grains Note: This page is strictly concerning the STAMP project in the G4AW-programme. 

Livestock for Livelihoods
As part of the strengthening of the STAMP project in the regions of Gao, Ménaka, Mopti, Timbuktu and Kidal for the period from 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2021, SNV Mali has developed a proposal that has been approved by the donor: the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The STAMP+ project is implemented as part of a public-private partnership involving several partners, including SNV, ORANGE Mali, Hoefsloot Spatial Solutions (HSS), TASSAGHT and the Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries. Since its launch in November 2017, the GARBAL service initiated as part of STAMP has recorded 1,307 calls and 84,816 USSD requests from 55,821 users (93% male and 7% female), a result that reflects the interest in this service and its active use.

The main objective of the project is to strengthen the resilience of (agro-)livestock farmers and improve the efficiency of the live cattle value chain in the regions of Gao, Ménaka, Kidal, Timbuktu and Mopti by generating economic and social benefits (including avoided costs), induced by the use of an appropriate M-Agri solution, which offers integrated services.

Improved access to useful decision-making information for mobility, advice on pastoral exploitation (production, animal health, etc.) and the resources needed (inputs & finance) for better livestock management makes it possible to achieve the following specific objectives by 2021:

1.	Improved access to advice, inputs and financial resources;
2.	Improvement of income from the sale of livestock products and/or livestock productivity;
3.	Achieve institutional and financial viability for the sustainability of the GARBAL solution.

In addition, during the final evaluation of the STAMP project, it was noted that women's use of the service was very modest, which led to the need to better target women and youth in order to encourage their increased use of the service.

Finally, for the measurement of results, a baseline study will be carried out at the start of the project and will be renewed in the third year as part of the evaluation. SNV will update the detailed monitoring and evaluation (M&E) plan for the STAMP project based on the recommendations of its final report. Particular attention will be paid to validating the attribution of measured changes in outcome indicators to service use; the causal link between service use, the frequency of service use and the measurement of changes observed at the level of pastoral farms will be further developed. The services are offered over simple mobile phones against a modest fee to subscribers per request to a Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) menu for livestock and cereal prices. The mobile platform and call centre is owned and run by ORANGE Mali, who exploits it commercially. The satellite data are processed and stored by Hoefsloot Spatial Solutions (HSS). SNV and Tassaght ensure that the information format matches perfectly with the pastoralists realities, needs and aspirations, and ensure the field data collection on biomass quality, herd concentration and market prices. The Project Monitoring & Evaluation Officer provides technical assistance on monitoring and evaluation and on the design of the service to be provided. At the end of the extension phase of the project, it is expected that an additional 45,000 pastoralists will use the GARBAL information service (accessible from simple mobile phones through a call to a centre managed by ORANGE Mali) to reduce the mortality of their livestock by 10%, increase their productivity by 10% and increase their income by 15%. Towards the end of the project period, an additional 45,000 pastoralists will actively use the information service the regions of gao, ménaka, mopti, tombouctou and kidal, Mali. When the project is finished, the pastoralists and agro pastoralists in this region will see their:
- livestock mortality reduced by 10%
- livestock productivity improved by 10%
- income from livestock sales increased by 15%