Sheet 01 · Engineering consultants in Bamako since 1999
Water controland rural development
SAED-SARL prepares rural infrastructure projects and supervises their construction: irrigated schemes and lowlands, boreholes, rural roads, bridges and buildings. Our engineers and technicians work on site, from feasibility study to handover of the works.
- years of experience
- 27
- Founded in 1999
- references
- 162
- Studies and works supervision
- countries
- 9
- West Africa
- staff
- ≈ 60
- About 20 permanent and 40 temporary
Sheet 02 · Ongoing assignments
Our teams' schedule, month by month
22 assignments under way. Filter by country or sector.
- Consulting services for the control and supervision of rehabilitation and extension works on the Daye, Hamadja and Korioumé schemes in the Tombouctou district, on behalf of the Tombouctou Rice Plains Development Project (PMPRT)
- Control and supervision of full water control development works on the Woloni and Sirimanso schemes under the second phase of the PDI-BS in the Moyen Bani area
- Preliminary design (APS), detailed design (APD), environmental and social impact assessment (ESIA), socio-economic studies and preparation of bidding documents (DAO), and control and supervision of works for rural access infrastructure and rural tracks in the Koulikoro, Nara and Nioro regions
- Control and supervision of development works on 40 km of rural tracks under the second phase of the PDI-BS in the Moyen Bani area
- Feasibility, preliminary design (APS), detailed design (APD) and environmental and social assessment studies for five (05) multi-village drinking water supply systems in the Centre-Nord, Sahel and Nord regions, on behalf of the Drinking Water and Sanitation Services Improvement Project for Resilience Building (PASEPA-2R)
- Environmental and social impact assessments for trading posts in the Koutiala, Ségou and Sikasso regions
- Technical studies and preparation of the technical parts of the bidding documents for the rehabilitation of rural roads in the Bounkani region
- Control and supervision of works for rural access (rural tracks), hydro-agricultural development, drinking water supply and building construction
Sheet 03 · Expertise
Nine fields, one terrain
SAED-SARL (Société Africaine d'Études pour le Développement) is a private engineering consultancy. Its engineers, technicians and associate experts work mainly on rural development projects. They have completed 162 assignments in Mali and neighbouring countries, 9 countries in all.
- Civil works: roads and buildingsWe design road links and buildings, then supervise their construction.
- Land-use planningWe plan the development of whole areas where several kinds of infrastructure have to fit together.
- Urban and industrial water engineeringWater supply, sanitation and drainage in towns: we prepare the studies and supervise the works.
- Village and pastoral water supplyBoreholes, wells, piped water and ponds: we site the works, prepare the documents and supervise the contractors.
- Irrigation and lowland developmentLowlands, floodplains, irrigated schemes and dams: we carry out the studies, then supervise the works.
- Rural infrastructureRural roads, river crossings, livestock and storage buildings: we design them and supervise their construction.
- Urban developmentStreets, site servicing and social housing: we design urban schemes and supervise their construction.
- Training and awareness-raising for rural communitiesWe raise awareness and train rural communities, and we support the people who will use the infrastructure.
- Training in new technologiesWe train people in the software our engineers use for road design and land-use planning.
Sheet 04 · Project cycle
How we work
We follow a project through its whole cycle, in three stages, from the first studies to the evaluation of its impacts.
- PK 0+000
Preliminary engineering studies
- Feasibility studies, diagnostic studies and master plans
- Preliminary and detailed design
- Capital and operating cost estimates
- Environmental and social impact assessments
- Awareness-raising and training for local communities
- PK 1+000
Procurement support
- Specifications and bidding documents
- Consultation of contractors
- Technical and financial finalisation of works contracts
- PK 2+000
Works supervision and acceptance
- Works management and supervision
- Project planning, scheduling and control
- Site organisation and management
- Performance checks and preparation of acceptance
- Ex post impact evaluation
Sheet 05 · West Africa
From Bamako to nine countries, since 1999
Number of assignments per country, based on our list of references.
First reference assignment in each country, from our list of references.
- 1999Firm founded in BamakoMali
- 2006First assignmentNiger
- 2009First assignmentBenin, Senegal
- 2012First assignmentBurkina Faso, Togo
- 2023First assignmentMauritania
- 2026First assignmentCôte d'Ivoire, Guinea
Sheet 06 · The firm
The firm
About twenty permanent staff and some forty specialists brought in as each assignment requires: rural engineering, hydrogeology, surveying, environment, sociology, economics.
- Yacouba TRAOREDirector
- Kodjo Kodégou ELODeputy Director
Assignments funded by the region's development partners
Our assignments have been funded by national budgets and by these technical and financial partners.
- World Bank (IDA)
- AfDB / ADF
- BOAD
- BADEA
- EBID
- IsDB
- IFAD
- GAFSP
- WAEMU
- European Union
- AFD
- KfW
- GIZ
- BTC (Belgium)
- USAID
- Global Affairs Canada
- Danish cooperation
- Spanish cooperation
- WFP
- UNICEF
- UNDP
- FAO
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