GSB in Madagascar
Launched in November 2003, the GSB Delivery
Mechanism in Madagascar is actively facilitating innovative and pro-poor
business ventures in various sectors. The GSB Coordinating Group in
Madagascar comprises members from Government, the private sector, NGOs,
and the development partners.
GSB Projects
Eco Tourism Project
Lead Company: Le
Monde en Version Originale (MVO)
This project enables
Madagascar to benefit from its high tourism potential, with a broad
diversity of landscape, flora and fauna unknown elsewhere in the world,
matchless beaches, and a magnificent marine environment, all prime assets
for the development of eco-tourism, plus a rich cultural heritage and
craft tradition. Download
project document
Solar Power Project
Lead Company: Enov
Solaire
Enov Solaire's originality is its adaptation to
rural households needs and budgets, and its innovative use of solar
panels. Download
project document
VOHITRA Environment
Lead Company:
VOHITRA Environment
This project is the first of its kind
in Madagascar. It is looking at providing a public service through a PPP.
It will be working in synergy with authorities, NGOs and private sector
companies already involved in waste sorting, collection and/or
valorisation. Download
project document
Lokoho Project
Lead Company: E7-Fund
(EDF, RWE, Hydro Quebec)
Provision of electricity
infrastructure to serve rural communities, SMEs, and social service
providers through construction of a hydro-power plant and its related
distribution network. Download
project document
PATH - Capacity Building of the Hydrocarbon Transport
SMEs
Lead Company:
Total
Improvement of the Hydrocarbon Transport SMEs by
increasing skills among management and front-line workers in the sector.
Download
project document
Lake Alaotra Project
Lead Company:
EDF
Creation of a local Energy Service Company for about
15,000 customers in the Lac Alaotra region over 20 years Download
project document
Microfinance Project
Lead Company: BFV
- Société Générale
BFV-SG co-finances micro and small
entrepreneurs (MSE) screened by Entreprendre à Madagascar (EAM). Download
project document
Industrial Wind Energy Centre
Lead
Company: Mad'Eole
Creation of an industrial wind energy
centre in Antsiranana (Diego region). Download
project document
Hotel Gasy Franchise
Lead Company:
Tsara Ketrika
A project to establish a franchise of local
fast food restaurants ("hotely gasy partners" or HGP). Download
project document
Energy Diversification to LPG
Lead
Company: Vitogaz
Energy diversification to LPG to reduce
dependency on wood energy and pressures on unsustainably managed or
protected forests. Download
project document
Drinkable Water
Lead Company:
BushProof
Manufacture, market and sale of range of
affordable household drinking water solutions to individual low-income
families. Download
project document
Malaria & Artemisia
Lead Company:
Bionexx-Technoserve
The Bionexx-Technoserve project aims
to grow and harvest artemisia in Madagascar in order to extract
artemisinin for Artemisinin Combination Therapy (ACT) treatments of
malaria. Download
project document
Additional opportunities are being explored with entrepreneurs,
including Vocalys, and Vohitra
Environment.