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Growing
Sustainable Business (GSB)
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.
Documents available for download in French (in PDF format):
- Launch:
Report
from GSB launch
- GSB Coordinating Group:
Members,
Terms
of Reference
- Reports from GSB CG meetings:
1st meeting,
2nd meeting,
3rd meeting,
4th meeting,
5th meeting
- Presentation material:
GSB in
Madagascar,
GSB Brochure,
GSB
Presentation
- Newsletters: 1st
Newsletter, 2nd
Newsletter,
3rd Newsletter,
4th Newsletter, 5th Newsletter
In Madagascar, the following GSB investment
projects are being developed:
Lokoho Project
Lead Company |
E7-Fund (EDF,
RWE, Hydro Quebec) |
Context |
The rural electrification rate in
Madagascar is below 3%. The targeted region (Sambava) is
known world-wide for its vanilla production, but the
potential benefits are far from fully reaped due to chronic
energy shortages. Deforestation and Indoor Air Pollution
also remain as big challenges in Madagascar. |
Description |
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.
The power plant will be built near Andapa and the power distribution
line will link the two medium-size towns of Andapa and Sambava.
About 20 villages around Andapa and on the line will be electrified.
About 100,000 people are targeted by this investment.
|
Project Alliance |
E-7
Fund (EDF, RWE, Hydro Quebec), Electricité de Madagascar (EDM),
Groupement des Entreprises de la SAVA (GES), Ministry of Energy
and Mining, Agence pour le Développement de l'Electrification
Rurale (ADER), JIRAMA, CARE, Association nationale d’ action
environnementale (ANAE), IFC, UNDP, Gesellschaft
fuer Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) |
Key beneficiaries |
Rural populations,
municipalities, and SMEs in the SAVA region. |
Expected impact |
Access
to energy for productive SME sector with great potential,
increased access to basic services (education, health, water,
telecoms), accelerated economic development in the region,
reduction of diesel and forest wood, resulting in improved
health and positive impact on climate change; US$ 19 M investment
(private and public, 23% public concessionary finance) will
deliver electricity to 100,000 people & SMEs covering
two towns and about 20 villages. Project builds local capacity
to manage within 9 years.
|
Relation to MDGs |
1) Poverty
reduction through access to energy enabling private sector
development and job creation, 2) Environmental protection
through use of renewable energy such as hydroelectric
energy. |
Current status |
Partnership
between e8-Fund, EDM, UNDP, and the Government has been formalized
in a MoU. Pre-feasibility studies have been completed and
accepted by the e8 Board. Project is now in the feasibility
stage which will last until around August 2006. BMZ has confirmed
engagement through a Euros 3M grant for GTZ technical assistance
to the project. GTZ is currently participating in the feasibility
phase. The e8 Board will decide on project financing at the
end of September 2006 when the feasibility study findings
are reported.
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PATH - Capacity Building of the
Hydrocarbon Transport SMEs
Lead Company |
Total |
Context |
The
hydro-carbon transport sector in Madagascar is informal with
low skill levels (80% of mechanics have not received formal
training), no standards, high accident rates (more than 300
accidents per year on the main truck route with
disproportionate impact on nearby villages), as well as an
old vehicle pool (80% of fleet in circulation is over 10
years old). |
Description |
Improvement
of the Hydrocarbon Transport SMEs by increasing skills among
management and front-line workers in the sector, and facilitating
access to finance for security equipment purchase.
|
Project Alliance |
Total, Ministère des Transport, Logistique
Petrolière, IST-T, APTH-France, APTH-Madagascar, VOARISOA,
Banks, UNDP. |
Key beneficiaries |
SME actors in the hydrocarbon transport sector, truck
driver, road users. |
Expected impact |
Enhanced productivity/income for SMEs,
employment creation, enhanced safety for villages along
truck routes in Madagascar, reduced chemical pollutions;
improvement of administrative controls for the sector. |
Relation to MDGs |
1) Poverty
reduction through employment generation and better road
safety, 2) Improved environmental protection. |
Current status |
Two
project officers have been recruited and a training plan is
being carried out since August 2004. Training of both drivers
and managers is complete since end of July 2005. More than
1800 people have received training. Communications with banks
and SMEs have taken place regarding accessing a guarantee
type fund to decrease bank interest rates for the SMEs so
that they can improve/purchase security related equipment.
PATH is now finalizing working with the Ministry of Transports
and the GPM (Groupement des Pétroliers de Madagascar)
members in order to implement a solution that will ensure
sustainability of the program and proper closure of the project.
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Lake Alaotra Project
Lead Company |
EDF |
Context |
The rural electrification rate in
Madagascar is below 3%. The Alaotra Lake region is an
agricultural zone, which remains undeveloped due to low
access to energy. Problems linked to energy in Madagascar
include deforestation and diseases linked to breathing
charcoal/wood smoke used indoors. The electricity sector
reform of 2002 allowed for an improved enabling environment
for investments in rural electrification with the creation
of the Rural Electrification Development Agency (ADER) and
the National Electricity Fund (FNE). Concession delivery and
investment subsidies for rural electrification go through a
Call for Proposal process. |
Description |
Creation of a local Energy Service Company:
- for about 15,000 customers in the Lac Alaotra region over
20 years
- offering a range of services (basic, extended, productive)
through individual photo-voltaic kits and micro-networks fed
by diesel generators and micro-hydro power plants.
EDF will ensure knowledge transfer to the local Energy
Service Company |
Project Alliance |
To be established. |
Key beneficiaries |
Rural populations,
municipalities, and SMEs in the Lake Alaotra region. |
Expected impact |
Improved access to energy and basic
services (education, health, water, telecoms, etc.), with a
major impact on community livelihoods.
Local economic development accelerated in particular in
agriculture and tourism (rice, other agriculture products,
ecotourism, etc.).
Decrease in the use of diesel and wood and use of a cleaner
renewable energy instead leading to decrease in green-house
gaz production and deforestation. |
Relation to MDGs |
1) Poverty
reduction through access to energy enabling private sector
development and job creation, 2) Environmental protection
through use of renewable energy such as photo-voltaic. |
Current status |
Following the complete
operationalization of two state agencies, the ADER (Rural
Electrification Development Agency) and the FNE (National
Fund for Electricity), the project is now awaiting Call for
Proposals from ADER for the Alaotra region. |
Microfinance Project
Lead Company |
BFV - Société Générale |
Context |
The micro-finance penetration rate in
Madagascar is approximately 5%, while MSE creation is
severely hampered by lack of access to financing. MFIs have
insufficient capital to meet demand of the MSEs and other
local banks have not been willing to lend to this sector
without very high barriers to access (e.g. onerous
collateral requirements). MFIs are limited in their ability
to lend to SMEs due to capital constraints. |
Description |
BFV-SG co-finances micro and small entrepreneurs (MSE)
screened by Entreprendre à Madagascar (EAM), a local
Microfinance Institution (MFI), which also provides business
advisory services and training to the MSEs and is in charge
of following-up on loan repayment. |
Project Alliance |
BFV-SG,
Entreprendre à Madagascar (EAM) and UNDP. |
Key beneficiaries |
SMEs and microfinance
institutions. |
Expected impact |
Enhanced access to finance for the MSEs.
Access to a greater pool of funds for the MFI. Ability for
BFV-SG to enter a new market while lowering the risks to do
so. |
Relation to MDGs |
Poverty reduction through local
economic development and employment creation. |
Current status |
The MoU with Entreprendre
à Madagascar (EAM) was signed on January 27. The two
parties are starting the implementation phase. |
Industrial Wind Energy Center
Lead Company |
Mad’Eole |
Context |
The rural electrification rate in
Madagascar is below 3% and energy demand is much higher than
supply. The Diego region offers great opportunities for wind
energy production, which is a little developed production
methodology in Madagascar. Wind energy has the potential to
be delivered at a cheaper rate than the current supply in
the region. |
Description |
Creation of an industrial wind energy centre in Antsiranana
(Diego region). This will involve producing wind energy for
Antsiranana and electrifying two villages in the region. In
addition, Mad'Eole wishes to produce parts of the wind
turbines and assemble them in Antsiranana. |
Project Alliance |
Ministry of Energy and Mines, JIRAMA, Agence pour le
Développement de l’Electrification Rurale (ADER), Mad’Eole,
Institut Supérieur de Technologie d’Antsiranana (IST-A),
Secren (a local engineering company), Aerodyn (a German
turbine manufacturer), UNDP. |
Key beneficiaries |
Communities
and businesses in Antsiranana, and targeted surrounding
villages. |
Expected impact |
Improved access to energy and basic
services (education, health, water, telecoms, etc.), with a
major impact on community livelihoods.
Local economic development accelerated in particular in
agriculture and tourism (rice, other agriculture products,
ecotourism, etc.).
Decrease in the use of diesel and wood and use of a cleaner
renewable energy instead leading to decrease in green-house
gas production and deforestation.
Technology transfer to a local company for producing parts
of the wind turbines locally for the first time in
Madagascar. |
Relation to MDGs |
1)
Poverty reduction through access to energy enabling private
sector development and job creation, 2) Environmental
protection through use of renewable energy such as wind
energy. |
Current status |
Business
Plan developed. Mad’Eole is currently looking for strategic
financial and technical partners and should start implementation
during second half of 2006. Funding for the first rural site
of Sahasifotra has been identified and implementation has
started in July 2006. Collaboration with GTZ for technical
assistance was formalized through an MOU that depends on availability
of infrastructure funding for operationalization.
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Hotel Gasy Franchise
Lead Company |
Tsara
Ketrika |
Context |
The affordable, authentic and popular
Hotely Gasy constitute all over the island the pit stop for
national and international tourists on touristy roads. Their
hygiene and service is often poor which gives them bad press
in particular with international tourists. Most if the
Hotely Gasy staff have not received training and tend not to
maintain their premises very well. The Malagasy gastronomy
as well as natural products are not exploited. |
Description |
A project to establish a franchise of local fast food
restaurants ("hotely gasy partners" or HGP). The HGP would
have common branding, fast service, minimum menu, strict
hygiene for food preparation and premises, and high
standards of hospitality and environmental friendliness.
Franchiser will refurbish HGPs to the branding scheme,
provide training and coaching, and control HGPs activities
according to norms. The franchisees will be required to
purchase a certain amount of food processed and delivered by
the franchiser. |
Project Alliance |
To be
established. |
Key beneficiaries |
Communities
and entrepreneurs next to the HGPs. |
Expected impact |
Job creation and in particular women
employment, women being the targeted partners for the
project. 500 jobs should be created within 5 years with
current projections. Human capital capacity building thanks
to training. Food and hygiene quality ensured in HGPs.
Local economic development increased through promoting local
artisans and entrepreneurs (ecotourism, etc.)
Decreased use of diesel and charcoal in HGPs outside the
grid. Decreased green-house gazes and deforestation. |
Relation to MDGs |
1) Poverty
reduction through job creation, 2) Environmental protection
through use of renewable energy by HGPs. |
Current status |
Business Plan developed. Tsara Ketrika is currently looking
for some of the financial and technical partners and is
starting implementation in parallel. Initial work is going
on in collaboration with IFC's SME Solution Centre. The
first Tsara Ketrika restaurant was successfully launched on
October 22 in Antananarivo. Tsara Ketrika is now working on
identifying sites for the set-up of two more pilots in
Antananarivo. |
Energy Diversification to LPG
Lead Company |
Vitogaz |
Context |
The context
is characterized by:
-
Demographic and urban growth (>6% growth per year in
cities) leading to an increased demand for charcoal, and
thus deforestation, environment degradation and threats on
biodiversity.
-
Slowness
of progress on the wood sector (sustainable forestry,
improved stoves mainstreaming).
-
Need for
a complementary tool to reduce the demand for wood
charcoal: diversification of domestic energy. Among the
alternative energy sources, LPG is the most efficient,
cleanest and most available in the short and medium term.
|
Description |
Energy diversification to LPG to reduce dependency on wood
energy and pressures on unsustainably managed or protected
forests. Thirteen cities in Madagascar and about 150,000
households are targeted over 4 years. The concept used is as
follows: the consumer buys gas, pays for the bottle deposit
through micro-credits managed by an MFI, the cooking device
is subsidized and IEC activities are carried out with the
support of WWF. Vitogaz is also developing LPG applications
for water heating that could lead to job creation. |
Project Alliance |
Vitogaz, the other LPG operators, ONG Solidarité Forêts, WWF,
FFEM, Entreprendre à Madagascar, UNDP and maybe GTZ.. |
Key beneficiaries |
Communities in the targeted 13 cities. |
Expected impact |
- Improved access to alternative source of
energy.
- Decreased natural forests degradation due to wood charcoal
production.
- Decreased greenhouse gases emissions from wood charcoal
burning.
- Improved health of women and children victims of indoor
air pollution.
- Reduced time spent for domestic tasks.
- Job creation through value chain creation |
Relation to MDGs |
Poverty alleviation through improved livelihoods and
potential job creations (productive use of LPG and value
chain creation). Natural forests protection and decreased
greenhouse gases through use of alternative energy to wood. |
Current status |
A
Business Plan has been developed and tested through several
operations by Vitogaz and some other of the operators. A proposal
for public funding for subsidies has been submitted to the
FFEM (Fond Français pour l'Environnement Mondial) and
has been approved . The project is currently on hold due to
the change in tax status of LPG in Madagascar since January
2006 (from VAT=0 to VAT=20%) that added to the increase of
the price for oil, has created a situation where the price
for LPG doubled making it out of reach of the poor. Lobbying
at the Ministry of Economy, Budget and Finance (MEBF), with
the help of the Ministries of Energy and Mining and Environment
and several donors, has led to the MEBF considering a tax
reduction at the next finance law revision, which should take
place in October 2006. Vitogaz is developing applications
for SMEs and micro-entrepreneurs (e.g. hotely gasy), at various
stages of development. It is also looking into creating a
new value chain for the commercialisation and installation
of water heating applications of LPG targeted at medium to
high income customers. This would lead to the recruitment
and training of
specialist technicians and increased safety around the use
of those products.
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Drinkable Water
Lead Company |
BushProof |
Context |
Access to safe drinking water in rural
Madagascar is less than 15% and is only growing slowly.
Nevertheless, interesting opportunities exist for the
introduction of simple, low cost water treatment
technologies that provide safe drinking water where it is
needed most: at household level. Owned and managed
privately, such technologies can be maintained simply and
cheaply, and are much more sustainable than community
management systems. |
Description |
Manufacture, market and sale of range of affordable
household drinking water solutions to individual low-income
families. BushProof intends to introduce a small range of
low-cost but effective technologies that ensure the
availability of safe drinking water at household level. Such
products would be available through small local (hardware)
shops, "sanitation markets" set up and run on a non-profit
basis by NGOs, or as small franchise businesses by BushProof
itself. The innovation comes from the technologies
introduced by BushProof, such as low-cost hand pumps,
plastic biosand filter units, ceramic filters and hand
washing dispensers. |
Project Alliance |
Ministry of Energy and Mining (water directorate), national
WASH committee, social marketing experts, donors, local and
international NGOs active in the water and sanitation
sector, WHO, UNICEF, UNDP. |
Key beneficiaries |
Individual rural families throughout the country, as well as
the urban poor and middle class. |
Expected impact |
BushProof products will contribute to a
significant reduction in the currently very high levels of
water borne disease, as well as the reduction of household
expense on treating those diseases. It will finally
contribute to job creation through the manufacturing and
commercialization of its products. |
Relation to MDGs |
Reducing the number of people without access to safe
drinking water, and poverty alleviation through job
creation. |
Current status |
BushProof has already developed the technology for several
simple and robust products as well as for "well jetting"
that allows for wells to be built very rapidly and at very
low cost to increase efficiency of NGO projects. BushProof
now needs to finalize its business plan and in particular
its marketing strategy and to broker the necessary strategic
partnership for demand creation. It is also looking for
financial assistance to produce a blow-molding tool to
streamline production of its low-cost hand pumps. |
Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor
Lead Company |
Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP) |
Context |
The national rate of access to drinkable
water in Madagascar is 27% only while access to adequate
sanitation infrastructure is as low as 13%. 5 millions work
days per year are lost, as well as 3,5 millions school days
due to diseases linked to the lack of sanitation
infrastructure. In Tana, the main water and sanitation
problems are linked to the insufficient current
infrastructure, its bad utilization, and the non-application
of the existing monitoring policies developed for
sanitation. These problems result in lack of drainage and
bad waste management, exposing the populations to an
increased risk of diseases linked to the unhealthy
environment in which they live. |
Description |
The
WSUP project comes as a complement to the current projects
and initiatives existing in the capital city of Antananarivo
and its suburbs (CUA and FIFTAMA) led by NGOs such as CARE
or donors like EU. It will consist in bringing water and sanitation
infrastructure to about 100 000 urban poor in the CUA and
FIFTAMA and in including the establishment of the basic structures
for infrastructure management and capacity building for Jirama
- the local water services provider - and CUA/FIFTAMA for
an efficient work with the poor.
|
Project Alliance |
UNV, CUA, WASH Committee, Ministry of Energy and Mining
(Water Directorate), EU Water Facility, local NGOs active in
water and sanitation, JIRAMA, UNDP, donors. |
Key beneficiaries |
100
000 urban poor in CUA and FIFTAMA
|
Expected impact |
The project will improve sustainable
access to safe drinking water and sanitation infrastructure.
It will also have an impact on health and hygiene of the
targeted population. It will finally improve the livelihood
of inhabitants of slum areas of Antananarivo and strengthen
the CBOs involved in the process. |
Relation to MDGs |
Reducing the number of people without access to safe
drinking water. Reduced water and waste borne diseases.
Improved livelihoods for inhabitants of slum areas |
Current status |
WSUP
and UNDP have been working to engage all actors involved in
water and sanitation in Antananarivo in order to identify
synergies of action and funding, as well as the best possible
niche for WSUP's action. This mapping and design exercise
was completed in May 2006. A WSUP local Program Manager was
recruited to lead a feasibility study that should refine project
scope and activities, and should be completed in December
2006. Findings should be presented in Antananarivo early 2007.
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Malaria & Artemisia
Lead Company |
Bionexx - Technoserve |
Context |
Africa suffers around 80% of all cases of
malaria in a given year and malaria is responsible for app.
10% of all deaths of children under five. Extensive use of
traditional monotherapy treatments have built up
unacceptable levels of resistance to their effectiveness.
WHO and UNICEF are thus now advising countries to adopt
artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs). WHO/UNICEF
has forecasted that at least 132 millions courses of ACTs
will be required globally in 2005, a four fold increase over
2004. Recent predictions are that only half of this demand
is likely to be met and the bulk of these supplies will
become available only towards the end of 2005. China and
Vietnam currently dominate global supply, but are unable to
keep up with rapid growth in demand. If African nations do
not produce artemisia, cost of ACT treatments will remain
high and wealth will be transferred toward rapidly growing
economies rather than to African farmers, where continued
poverty itself breeds malaria.
African producers have demonstrated an
implied technical comparative advantage vs. China due to
superior artemisinin yields, but donor support is needed to
mobilize farmers and advise them on proper plant husbandry
to ensure positive results. A feasibility study focusing in
East Africa in 2004 funded by USAID showed that it is
financially viable to promote expansion of
a program for cultivating and harvesting Artemisia annua and
to establish extraction facilities to extract the active
ingredient, artemisinin, for sale to pharmaceutical
interests with product destined for the WHO/UNICEF supply
pipeline. East African and Malagasy experts included in the
Bionexx-Technoserve team believe that due to geographic,
climatic, and agricultural similarity, the same holds true
for Artemisia production in Madagascar. |
Description |
Bionexx
aims to grow and harvest artemisia in Madagascar in order
to extract artemisinin for Artemisinin Combination Therapy
(ACT) treatments of malaria to be prepared by the pharmaceutical
industry for the WHO/UNICEF supply pipeline. The local cultivation
of Artemisia will offer new and diversification income streams
for small holder farmers and should contribute to a healthier
future for Africans in Madagascar and on the continent.
|
Project Alliance |
TBD but likely to include: UNDP, WHO, UNICEF, Ministry of
Agriculture, Ministry of Health, Regional Authorities where
artemisinin is being planted, FAO, MCA, local NGOs, private
sector partners, other. |
Key beneficiaries |
Africans suffering from malaria and small growers in the
regions where Artemisia is and will be planted. |
Expected impact |
The project will contribute to increasing
the availability of ACT on the market in order to bring a
solution to malaria. It will also contribute to rural
development in the regions where planting will take place
through small-grower schemes. Job creation could reach 2000
people over 2 years. Finally the project will increase
Malagasy exportations and contribute to decreasing the
balance of payment deficit. |
Relation to MDGs |
Combat Malaria: Reducing the number of people dying from
malaria;
Poverty Reduction: Rural development will allow for improved
livelihoods of farmers and their families;
Global Partnership for Development: Bionexx will partner
with East African countries producing artemisinin through
Technoserve, as well as with multinational pharmaceutical
companies and WHO/UNICEF, in order to deliver artemisinin
based treatments to malaria to the most vulnerable. |
Current status |
Bionexx
chose to locate its initial cultivation in Ambatondranzaka
(Lake Alaotra) due to agronomic research on Artemisinin annua
conducted there in the early 1990's by Mr. Juslain Raharinaivo,
now part of the Bionexx executive team. Seed from there was
utilized to support Bionexx's planting of 104 ha in 2005 and
is intended to supply subsequent planting in Antsirabe and
elsewhere. Bionexx has taken steps to secure additional tracts
for growing about 450 ha of artemisia in 2006. So far Bionexx
has created about 700 jobs and has contracts with 90 farmers
on its outgrower scheme. Technoserve assisted Bionexx by providing
cultivation/harvesting advice in the field as part of a technical
assistance effort co-financed by the GSB. A donor roundtable
was organized and facilitated by the GSB on February 20th
in order to mobilise resources for the next phase of the project.
MCA allocated 20 000 USD to the outgrower scheme to start
with, and WHO is partnering with a local Malagasy laboratory
to submit a request for funding to the Global Fund for HIV/AIDS
and malaria for artemisin analysis equipment purchase that
will be leveraged by Bionexx.
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Lead
Company |
VOHITRA Environnement |
Context |
Today, about 840 tonnes of domestic wastes
are produced on a daily basis in Antananarivo. Out of these
600 are collected and deposited in a controlled wasteland,
while 240 tonnes are deposited in wild wasteland. All this
waste represents about 160 m3. Almost none of these wastes
are valorised through recycling, composting, energy generation
or other. They represent a threat to the city given that waste
borne diseases (plague, cholera, etc) still exist in Madagascar
and outbursts are not uncommon.
The example of the situation in the capital city, Antananarivo,
is unfortunately illustrative of the situation in the whole
country. Although a national sanitation policy has been adopted,
the situation with regards to waste management and treatment
is in great need to be improved, especially in shanty town
areas where the most vulnerable people live.
|
Description |
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.
It will also be working in partnership with local research
institutes in order to accelerate technology and competency
transfers. It hopes that its action will contribute to the
establishment of a national waste management policy and a
judicial framework specific to wastes. |
Project
Alliance |
TBD
but likely to include: UNDP, UN-Habitat, Ministry of Energy
and Mining, CUA, local NGOs, private sector partners, other |
Key
beneficiaries |
The
project will contribute to improve waste management in Madagascar.
It will have a direct impact on sanitation and pollution,
population behavioural change, job creation for sorters and
collectors, and decrease in infectious diseases related to
bad sanitation. It will also have indirect impacts on recycling,
job creation for waste collection and sorting before recycling,
local development around treatment sites, and reduction of
health spending due to decrease in bad sanitation borne disease. |
Expected
impact |
Improved
sanitation and decreased pollution
Behavioural change with regards to waste sorting and disposal
Job creation for sorters and collectors at treatment sites
and before recycling
Decreased health spending
Reducing the number of people with no access to adequate sanitation
and suffering from poor sanitation related diseases
|
Relation
to MDGs |
Energy and Environment
: Contribute to creating a sustainable environment through
reducing waste related pollution and increasing recycling
as well as organizing waste sorting
Poverty reduction : through job creation and improved livelihoods
for people living in slums
|
Current
status |
Vohitra
Environnement is currently working on waste sorting sensitisation
in 7 communes around Antananarivo. It has also started mapping
and establishing contacts with existing actors in waste collection
and treatment all over Madagascar. In parallel it has finalized
its business plan and is looking for finance in order to scale-up
its compost-making facility to start with and then to develop
its waste sorting and storage infrastructure. It is also looking
for financial support to scale-up its waste sorting sensitising
efforts as well as the constitution of a database on waste
management activities and actors in Madagascar. A multi-stakeholder
Project Alliance was created in June 2006 to facilitate partnership
brokerage and successful project implementation.
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Eco Tourism Project
Lead
Company |
Le
Monde en Version Originale (MVO) |
Context |
Madagascar
possesses 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. However Madagascar
suffers from the lack of infrastuctures to welcome all the
tourists.
|
Description |
VO
uses an innovative imported eco-lodge technology that allows
for a 5 to 6 months set-up. This will ensure that the ambitious
goal of having 6 villages for a capacity of abut 40 tourists
is attainable. MVO's values are to be in full symbiosis with
the eco-touristic policy of the country. Each eco-village
will target to become an economic, social, energetic and health
centre for neighbouring populations. |
Project
Alliance |
TBD
but likely to include: Ministry of Culture and Tourism (MCT),
Ministry of Industrialization, Trade and Private Sector Development
(MICDSP), Ministry of Environment (MinEnv), ANGAP, local authorities,
communities, NGOs and private sector, bankers and donors (IFC
SME Solution Centre, Equator Ventures, etc...), UNDP/GSB,
etc... |
Key
beneficiaries |
The
project will have an impact on the growth of the tourism sector
in Madagascar, job creation (50 persons will be employed directly
on each site and numerous indirect suppliers jobs), rural
development and improved livelihoods in communities neighbouring
the eco-villages, conservation and cultural exchanges. |
Expected
impact |
Increase in the numbers of tourists coming
to Madagascar
Job creation
Rural development and improved livelihoods
Conservation
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Relation
to MDGs |
Poverty
Reduction: Through job creation, rural development and improved
livelihoods
Energy and Environment : Through the protection of environment
in areas neighbour eco-villages and use of renewable energy
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Current
status |
MVO
has developed its business plan and already approached bankers
in and outside Madagascar for financing its €1,450,000 loan
needs. The return on investment is projected in 5 years. MVO
is currently trying to finalize its project finance.
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Solar Power Project
Lead
Company |
Enov
Solaire |
Context |
The
rural electrification rate in Madagascar is below 3% and energy
demand is much higher than supply. |
Description |
Enov
Solaire's originality is its adaptation to rural households
needs and budgets, and its innovative use of solar panels.
The solar panels used have a 20 years lifetime, making the
energy highly affordable to rural households at 4 Ar per Wh
against 190 Ar for chemical batteries, and 208 Ar for car
batteries. |
Project
Alliance |
TBD
but likely to include: UNDP/GSB, Banks and local donors, local
authorities, private sector and NGOs, Ministry of Energy and
Mining
Private sector partners for local distribution
UNDP/GSB to ensure that project moves on, partnership brokerage
with strategic partners, potential technical assistance co-financing,
etc.
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Key
beneficiaries |
The project will
contribute to increasing access to affordable and renewable
electricity to rural households. |
Expected
impact |
Increased
access to information (radio, TV, cell phone) in rural areas
Reduced pollution by chemical batteries
Job creation
|
Relation
to MDGs |
Energy
and Environment : through reduced pollution and use of renewable
energy
Poverty reduction : through job creation and access to health
and security related information
Access to Information and ICT (Cell Phones): through access
to more affordable source of energy
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Current
status |
Enov
Solaire was selected by ICREA, a local innovative technology
project incubator. ICREA assisted Enov Solaire in building
its Business Plan and provided basic entrepreneurial training
to the entrepreneur. ICREA validated Enov Solaire's business
plan on April 11. Enov Solaire already manufactured and sold
over 120 products in the rural region West of the capital
Antananarivo, based on solar panels purcahsed in Tana since
it did not have the cash flow to allow for Chinese solar panel
container purchase. It is now looking at scalling down its
business plan in order to access finance more easily and solve
its current lack of stock issue.
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Additional opportunities are being explored with entrepreneurs,
including Vocalys, and Vohitra Environment..
For more information about GSB in Madagascar, please
visit http://www.onu.mg/pnud/Pages/gsbmg.html
or contact
Pascale Bonzom (pascale.bonzom@undp.org).
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