Applied research · Mali
Understanding how corruption affects access to essential services.
A study attentive to lived experience and differentiated gender effects across six services that shape everyday life.
Context
01The situation behind the assignment.
The work focuses on health, education, justice, land, water and electricity, with attention to lived experience and differentiated gender effects.
Which corruption mechanisms influence access to essential services, and how do their effects vary across people and territories?
Method
02Connect six services and four territories
Organise fieldwork around concrete situations that shape access to services.
Make room for lived experience
Combine interviews, group discussions and document analysis.
Surface mechanisms and differences
Connect materials to identify differences in experience and possible avenues for improvement.
Outputs and working materials
03Study covering six essential services
Material from interviews, group discussions and document analysis
Territorial reading across four study areas
Detailed findings — subject to validation
Learning and safeguards
04Do not publish before evidence can be protected, sourced and validated.
Detailed findings remain subject to validation. Sensitive visuals and portraits of research participants are not distributed without documented permission.
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