Africa

Madagascar

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• Nosy Ve, Madagascar

The country is covered by the UNESCO Cluster Office in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

In 2000, a solar village pilot project was launched in Ampasina Maningory. Electricity was thus supplied to the Town Hall, a primary school, a secondary school and for public lighting.

Future goals include installing a refrigerator for vaccinations and medicines in the health centre and using this village as a renewable energy training centre.

A Youth Visioning for Island Living initiative allows school children in Madagascar to learn about how their actions impact the environment through implementing activities to clean up their school.

Madagascar is also supporting the Regional School on Integrated Management of Tropical Forests and Territories (ERAIFT), located in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Below you can access the projects that are currently being implemented in the country within the framework of UNESCO’s Natural Sciences Sector.

Freshwater

- Hydrology for the Environment, Life and Policy (HELP) project in the Mandaratsy basin More

People, Biodiversity and Ecology

- Regional School on Integrated Management of Tropical Forests and Territories (ERAIFT)

- Biosphere Reserves (WNBRs)

Oceans

- Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning System programme (IOTWS)

- International Oceanographic Data and Information exchange (IODE)

- OceanData and Information Network for Africa (ODINAFRICA)

Earth Sciences

- Pan-African Network for a Geoscience Information System (PANGIS)

- Evolution of Western Gondwana during the Late Palaeozoic: Tectonosedimentary record, palaeoclimates, and biological changes (IGCP, Project 471)

Science Policy and Sustainable Development

- Establishing Science and Technology Parks More

Coasts and Small Islands

- Youth Visioning for Island Living initiative: Environmental education for school children More

Renewable and Alternative Energies

- Solar Village Programme More