Despite progress, Mali still had a relatively low sanitation access rate. The overall objective of the assignment was to develop a national strategy to accelerate access to sanitation services, while respecting the principles of equity and sustainability of the national political and programmatic framework. In line with this framework, the aim is also to support the government in the implementation of safely managed services where necessary. The strategy focuses on three areas: • Eliminating open defecation through the scaling-up of ATPC. • Implementation of a “post-FDAL” approach that enables sustainable results in hygiene and sanitation practices. • Development of sanitation markets to meet users' needs and preferences. Our team adopted a double approach: - “Evaluation” to understand and assess what has been implemented, in order to draw lessons for scaling up. - “Design” to define strategic orientations for achieving the sector's objectives. The evaluation stage consisted of literature review, interviews at national level, interviews at regional and local level, interviews with users & data analysis. Following this evaluation, the strategy was drafted building on the evaluation of the strategy implementation. The assignment also involved updating protocols for supporting communities eradicate open defecation and estimating the investments costs for implementing the strategy.