Madagascar
Context
Madagascar is the fourth largest island in the world and lies 400 kilometres off the south east coast of Africa. Its population includes 18 ethnic groups and it is home to wildlife which cannot be found anywhere else in the world.
The majority of people are dependent on subsistence farming and 70% of the population lives below the poverty line.
Only 41% of the population have access to water, and 11% have access to sanitation.
On average households spend two or three hours a day collecting water.
The need for change is great and requires considerable increases in government, private sector and non governmental organisation (NGO) support, as well as hygiene education.
What has WaterAid achieved?
- WaterAid has worked with national government to establish and implement a sanitation strategy.
- WaterAid has helped three of the four largest Madagascan NGOs integrate safe water systems with hygiene and sanitation.
- The international WASH initiative has been driven in Madagascar by WaterAid, encouraging organisations to work together.
- Working with partner organisations in Toamasina, WaterAid has replicated effective urban sanitation projects
WaterAid's programme work in Madagascar
WaterAid has been working in Madagascar since 1999 and now supports five main partner NGOs, helping communities implement their own water and sanitation facilities and implement hygiene education.
WaterAid also forms links with other organisations with similar aims and is involved in wider policy debates.
Madagascar country strategy 2010-2015
Case study
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Nisy, collecting water at a new water source in Mahaiza Province, Madagascar.
I am very happy as I can collect water very close to my home. The old place was dirty especially in the rainy season but this tap is clean. When I drank the old water I had stomach problems but now I don't have them anymore.
Price points
£6 could pay for the training of one hygiene education volunteer £38 could pay to set up a school health club £419 could pay for a locally manufactured rope pump £1,947 could pay for a school sanitation block with two showers, for 200 children
Films/technology/other links
WaterAid's work in Madagascar
New Sanitation project in Madagascar
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Madagascar Sources:
World Bank (2011) World Development Indicators database - databank.worldbank.org, WHO / UNICEF (2010) Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) report 2010, UNDP (2011), Human Development Report 2011
NB. Official statistics tend to understate the extent of water and sanitation problems, sometimes by a large factor. There are not sufficient resources available for accurate monitoring of either population or coverage. Varying definitions of water and sanitation coverage are used and national figures mask large regional differences in coverage.
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