A steering committee to implement the Agreement has been established to ensure compliance with commitments enshrined in the document. The committee's proceedings were suspended in June to ensure the representativeness of its members and in August when the hostilities between armed groups resumed in Anefis. The various stakeholders finally reached a common ground and the committee reconvened on 30 September.
Awareness-raising campaigns are increasing since the stakeholders decided to meet again, particularly in the Kidal region, the stronghold of the rebellion. Women from the region are also involved in the activities.
"Women accepted the agreement. Now, we started awareness-raising and information campaigns. We broadcast press releases on the radio. We held meetings and we are now planning visits to small villages, "said Ms. Aminatou Wallet Bibi, the president of the Coordinating Committee of Women's Associations of Azawad.
Mr. Embery Ag Rhissa, member of the coordinating Committee of the Azawad movements, CMA, confirms women's involvement in the implementation process. However, he recognizes that it is a difficult mission. "The Agreement is drafted, even those who are literate, who can read, have difficulty to understand it. What about an illiterate and a very mobile population, then? "he asks.
The same statements are made by the president of the Association of the orphans of Kidal, Ms. Agaicha Mohamed. She said the association was also campaigning to inform and educate the population. She points out:"But some people are still reluctant," noting that people wonder whether Mali will implement the content of the Agreement.
Furthermore, one of the residents believes that the Peace Agreement does not exist among women and youth in Kidal recalling, in this context, security reasons. He added: "Women still believe in their story of the independence of Azawad".
A UN mission employee, who declined to be identified, said: "This Agreement is worthless for these people, the evidence is that, last month, they demonstrated against the visit of a minister to reopen schools".
Ibrahim Touté, another resident of Kidal, confirms that neither the associations, nor the CMA, are coming to talk to them as young people, on the Peace Agreement.
The leaders of various women's associations and the officials of the Coordinating Committee, explain this information gap by two main reasons: "The population is composed of nomads, very mobile people" says Embery Ag Rhissa, while Aminatou Wallet Bibi thinks it is an issue of means. "We must travel to meet the people, but we cannot afford it," she laments.
Since the beginning of the security crisis in northern Mali in late 2011 and early 2012, Kidal's women were at the forefront of all popular demonstrations in the region.
"They educate. They create consultative meetings among themselves and with the leaders of the rebellion to take stock of the situation on the ground and / or on the conclusion of a Peace Agreement. They also contribute financially to provide supplies to fighters on the ground, "says MNLA spokesman Hama Ag Sid'Ahmed, in an article on the website SlateAfrica, published on 25 June 2012.
On Friday 16 May 2014, women accompanied by some young people supporting the MNLA demonstrated on Kidal's airport runway, against the arrival of the then Prime Minister, Moussa Mara, scheduled on the following day. Thus, they forced the UN aircraft with several Malian ministers on board, including the Defense Minister Mr. Soumeylou Boubeye Maïga to go back to Gao.