Global Sanitation Fund (March 2010-March 2015)
Beginning in March 2010, the Global Sanitation Fund awarded MCDI a five-year contract to help improve Madagascar's access to sanitation and promote the adoption of good hygiene practices. As one of the poorest countries in the world, 75% of Madagascar's population lives in remote rural areas where the availability of markets, health and government services is minimal and where only 7.5% of the rural population has access to adequate sanitation infrastructure. The purpose of the Madagascar GSF project is to increase hygiene and promote a cleaner, safer environment.
Specific project objectives include the following:
- Increase the number of families in rural and urban areas, especially in the poorest areas, with access to basic sanitation infrastructure in a sustainable manner and adoption of good hygienic practices.
- Engage and involve institutional and private actors in the promotion of basic sanitation.
- Identify and disseminate successful approaches and innovative sanitation and hygienic methods.
While this project is still in early implementation phase, at the end of the first year the activity completion rate was 54%. Two regional grant contracts and five support grant contracts were signed with sub-grantees. These contracts cover five of the eight regions targeted by the project covering approximately 2,397,321 people. Two fact-finding missions have also been conducted in target regions to inform national level actors about the program and the implementation schedule.
