Financial Risk:
Critical
Score:
15/100
Asset Disposals
Q24
0/100
How effective are controls over the disposal of assets, and is information on these disposals, and the proceeds of their sale, transparent?
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The assessor did not find evidence of any formal procedures for disposing of assets with regard to the defence and security sector in any…
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The assessor did not find any evidence about the process of asset disposals with regard to the defence and security sector. Recent reports by…
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The assessor did not find any evidence about the financial results of asset disposals with regard to the defence and security sector. Recent reports…
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Q25
0/100
Is independent and transparent scrutiny of asset disposals conducted by defence establishments, and are the reports of such scrutiny publicly available?
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The assessor did not find any information relating to asset disposals with regard to the defence and security sector. Indeed, the Malian government’s own…
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Because asset disposals are not scrutinised by an oversight body of any form, this indicator has been marked Not Applicable. The body that would…
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Because asset disposals are not scrutinised by an oversight body of any form, this indicator has been marked Not Applicable. The body that would…
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Secret Budgets
Q26
0/100
What percentage of defence and security expenditure in the budget year is dedicated to spending on secret items relating to national security and the intelligence services?
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The size of the budget allocated to the intelligence services is not publicly known. Mali’s intelligence service, the Direction Générale de la Sécurité d’Etat…
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Q27
0/100
Is the legislature (or the appropriate legislative committee or members of the legislature) given full information for the budget year on the spending of all secret items relating to national security and military intelligence?
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The published budget of the armed and security forces does not include the intelligence service, whose annual spend is kept entirely secret.¹ There have…
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Q28
0/100
Are audit reports of the annual accounts of the security sector (the military and intelligence services) subject to parliamentary debate?
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The assessor found no evidence that there are regular audits of the annual accounts of the security sector. The Supreme Court and the BVG…
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Because legislators are not provided audit reports on secret items, this indicator has been marked Not Applicable. Legislative debate on the contents of audit…
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Q29
0/100
In law, are off-budget military expenditures permitted, and if so, are they exceptional occurrences that are well-controlled? In practice, are there any off-budget military expenditures? If so, does evidence suggest this involves illicit economic activity?
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There is clear evidence that off-budget purchases are permitted by law. Article 8 of the Code des marchés publics et des délégations de service…
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The assessor found evidence that numerous off-budget military expenditures are not recorded in the budget. When the IMF, the World Bank and the EU…
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The assessor found evidence that numerous military expenditures are not recorded in the budget, some of which point to illicit flows of resources. When…
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Mali does not have a comprehensive freedom of information framework.¹ ² The country does not have a Freedom of Information Act and the current…
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This indicator is not assigned a score in the GDI. There are numerous existing legal mechanisms for classifying information. The 1998 law that governs…
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The country’s laws allow for the classification of all defence-related information1,2 (see Q30B). Combined with the deference shown by other public institutions towards the…
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Q31
50/100
Do national defence and security institutions have beneficial ownership of commercial businesses? If so, how transparent are details of the operations and finances of such businesses?
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Inferential evidence shows that the annual income generated by public work, which constitutes a commercial business owned by the military, may exceed 1% of…
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The activities of the DGM are publicly known and the government is keen to publicise how the military’s contribution to public works benefits wider…
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Military-owned Businesses
Q32
0/100
Are military-owned businesses subject to transparent independent scrutiny at a recognised international standard?
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As with many other defence activities, military-owned businesses are not subject to any meaningful scrutiny. The BVG is the public auditing body responsible for…
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Audit details are not generally made available to the public. As with many other defence activities, military-owned businesses are not subject to any meaningful…
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Illegal Private Enterprise
Q33
75/100
Is there evidence of unauthorised private enterprise by military or other defence ministry employees? If so, what is the government’s reaction to such enterprise?
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Mali has legislation that explicitly outlaws state employees, including security officials, from engaging, directly or indirectly, in private enterprises that could compromise their independence.…
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The assessor has found evidence indicating that unauthorised private enterprise is common, but is largely in the form of illicit and highly informal activities.…
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Actual Military Spending
Q77
38/100
Is comprehensive data on actual spending on defence published during the budget year?
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The Ministry of Economy and Finance of Mali proactively publishes the budget online in disaggregated form.¹ Details of actual spending on defence and security…
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The vast majority of actual spending is disclosed. For instance, the 2018 budget for the MoD is divided into 5 sections: administration, military operations,…
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Despite publishing the In-Year Reports, which provide detailed information on the execution of the budget,¹ Mali does not make the Year-End reports publicly available.
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The In-Year reports provide information on the execution rate of the budget for the defence and security sectors, which as of 31 March 2018…
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