Madagascar
Region: Africa
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Duration: February 2023 - March 2025
Budget: US$458,565
Implementing Agencies: IOM (lead), UNDP
Internal migration is not a new phenomenon in Madagascar. However, in recent years, forces such as climate change, environmental degradation, and COVID-19 have induced a significant increase in the movement of internal migrants, fundamentally changing the characteristics of migration patterns.MORE -
Duration: May 2011 - April 2014
Budget: US$2,864,960
Implementing Agencies: UNICEF (lead), UN-Habitat, UNFPA, UNOCHA
Since 2009, the cumulative effect of frequent natural disasters, the global economic and food crises, and the extended political crisis has severely threatened the human security situation in Madagascar. At the same time, the relentless pace of urban migration has concentrated the country’s population in the capital, Antananarivo, where over 70 per cent of the population lives in informal settlements.MORE