Mali High Frequency Phone Surveys (HFS) reveal that Covid-19 awareness is widespread in Mali. People have stopped working and households have experienced reductions in income and low engagement in education activities. COVID-19 AWARENESS 90% of people were aware of social distancing in June JOB LOSSES 2020. 85% were avoiding hand shaking: over 90% in urban 28% of people areas and 81% in rural areas. who were working before the pandemic were no INCOME longer working in July 2020. Rural workers (30%) were 65% of households experienced a drop in their business more affected than urban income in June 2020: 70% in urban areas and 63% in rural workers (23%) along with areas. In July 2020, the proportion of households the millennials (29%). experiencing a drop in income was 48%. Women and men were equally affected (28%). EDUCATION FOOD SECURITY 36% of households with children were engaged 6% of households in learning activities. A larger proportion was ran out of food in the last 30 days as engaged in urban areas (44%) in contrast to rural reported in July 2020. A similar areas (33%). figure was observed in rural and urban areas. Daily reported COVID cases as % of the Job losses per country as % of the country population employed population before COVID 0.0006% Survey rounds: last available Cases as share of population 0.0005% 62% 0.0004% 42% 0.0003% 33% 26% 28% 29% 0.0002% 10% 12% 0.0001% 3% 0.0000% MLI June 2020 CAF June 2020 COD June 2020 ETH May 2020 SLE July 2020 MWI June ZMB June 2020 KEN June 2020 MLI July 2020 3/26/2020 4/10/2020 4/25/2020 5/10/2020 5/25/2020 6/24/2020 7/24/2020 8/23/2020 9/22/2020 10/7/2020 11/6/2020 6/9/2020 7/9/2020 8/8/2020 9/7/2020 10/22/2020 2020 Source: https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus. Job losses as % of the workers in each Households experiencing a drop in their subgroup before COVID business income By gender, cohorts and area Urban, rural and total Survey rounds: July 2020 Survey rounds: June and July 2020 Total 28% 69% Male 28% 65% Female 28% 63% Urban 23% Rural 30% Millennial 29% 48% 47% Gen X 27% MLI June 2020 MLI July 2020 Baby Boomers 29% Urban Rural Total Households that run out of food in the Households with children engaged in last 30 days learning activities Urban, rural and total Urban, rural and total Survey rounds: July 2020 Survey rounds: June 2020 85% 7% 6% 6% 44% 36% 33% Pre pandemic Children engaged in school attendance learning activities rate Urban Rural Total Urban Rural Total Notes: Pre-pandemic was 88% (urban) and 84% (rural). Source: Data from the High Frequency Phone Surveys (HFS) unless otherwise indicated. Notes: The sample is nationally representative of the current population of households with phone access. Survey rounds correspond to June and July 2020. Between 1700 and 1900 different individuals have been surveyed at each round. The dates in each graph correspond to the last round of the survey for which the respective variable is available. This note uses harmonized indicators which may not match country specific indicators.