Resources / WSSCC Global Sanitation Fund programme in Madagascar announces first sub-grants and grantees

Large regional sub-grantees such as the Madagascar Red Cross and a number of sub-regional counterparts such as CARITAS are among the first round of grant recipients in the Madagascar Global Sanitation Fund (GSF) programme announced this week by Medical Care Development International (MCDI), the national Executing Agent for the fund. 

The Global Sanitation Fund programme in Madagascar focuses on hygiene education, raising awareness, and demand creation in order to have an impact on a national scale. The programme has been designed to provide a significant number of grants at the regional level in order to maximize the fund’s geographic reach in the country. In total, the programme targets four million people for  sanitation and hygiene improvements over the next five years.

The overall aim of the fund programme in Madagascar is to eliminate the practice of open defecation, to engage institutional and private actors for the long term in promoting sustainable sanitation, and to spread successful and innovative approaches in improving sanitation and hygiene. This regional approach will combine promotion of hygiene, Community-Led Total Sanitation, and sanitation marketing. 

Ms. Eugénie Raharisoa from Ny Tanintsika, a national NGO that is part of a consortium that is one of the sub-grantees, is excited. She said, “The GSF contributes to reinforcing and enlarging the interventions in the sanitation field in Madagascar.” 

“Through the grants that are being made available to sub-grantees, the GSF programme is contributing to reduce current gaps in the Malagasy sanitation sector and to reach the sanitation objectives, but also to increase the capacity of local organizations in the sector,” says Dr. Rija Fanomeza, Programme Manager, MCDI.

Visit as well the Madagascar GSF programme page for more detailed programme information.