INPS - Institut National de Prévoyance Sociale

On January 25, 1956, an order of the Government of French West Africa created the Family Allowance Fund (CAF). As its name suggests, this structure was responsible for managing the family allowance system.

The creation three years later of the scheme for work accidents and occupational diseases led to the establishment of the Family Allowance Fund and Work Accidents (CAFAT). The body has gradually evolved to give birth to the current INPS.

The constitution of January 12, 1992, like those which preceded it, solemnly reaffirms the principles contained in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 and stands out from the others when it provides more explicitly in its article 17 the right to social security: “Education, instruction, training, work, housing, leisure, health and social protection constitute recognized rights”.
In 1961, the old-age insurance system will bring about a great change in the social protection system and it is from this date that CAFAT will take the name of National Institute of Social Welfare (INPS).

Then, Mali adopted from its independence legislative and regulatory texts organizing social security:

- Law No. 61-59 / AN-RM of May 15, 1961, establishing the National Institute for Social Welfare (INPS)
- Law No. 62-68 / AN-RM of August 9, 1962 establishing in the Republic of Mali a Social Security Code (CPS); - Law No. 62-69 / AN-RM of August 9, 1962 establishing in the Republic of Mali a Labor Code.
- Between 1962 and 1999, health protection schemes and voluntary insurance appeared. In the meantime, in 1996, the Institute became a public administrative establishment (EPA), with the particularity of tripartite management (State, employers and workers) according to Law No. 96-004 of January 26, 1996. 

These three texts have, in fact, taken over any relationship that has occurred since the advent of the first social legislation in French West Africa in 1952 and social security in French Sudan in 1956, thus establishing the outcome of the workers' struggle. and other social strata.
The Malian social security system, consecrated by the three basic texts cited above to, today, more than fifty years.