3.3. National Security Policy within the Mechanism of Public Security Policies in Mali. Since security is a cross-cutting phenomenon, National Security Policy should take into consideration the other public policies which have an incidence on the promotion of human security. Therefore, the National Policy for Internal Security and Civilian Protection, which was adopted by the Government on 20 October, 2010, is the melting pot of existing Public Security Policies, namely the: - National Poverty Eradication Strategy; - National Food Security Strategy; - National Environment Protection Policy; - National Policy Against Malaria; - National Strategy Against Highway Insecurity, - Strategy Against Hard Drugs, - Strategy Against the Proliferation of Light Weapons; - Strategy against Terrorism, etc. The originality of the National Policy for Internal Security and Civilian Protection of Mali resides, first and foremost, in the participative character of its drafting process. Although the matter is the Government's exclusive responsibility, it is the participants in the National Conference on Security and Peace who devised, amongst others, the broad orientations and strategic axes that served to design the National Security and Civilian Protection Policy. The conceptual process of the National Security Policy rook place in three phases, namely: Ø Phase 1: Government dispatched sensitization mission teams to the field; these tried hard to reach the remotest community councils and villages, with a view to rasing the various actors' awareness to the need for a national debate on security issues and how to manage them across time and geographical space; 44