ANNUAL REPORT Environmental Community 2018 based foundation Word from the Chairman of the Board of Directors A MILESTONE YEAR 2018 FOR TANY MEVA adagascar, and the Indian Ocean (PS4), which was adopted in July 2018. Today, Tany as a whole, face many challenges. Meva’s financing policy is in line with the State’s Genera l Climate change is one of the biggest Policy in terms of sustainable development. This allows M challenges we face, it is consistency of strategies and their deployment. already producing major effects Funded projects has focused on improving on people’s habits and the the living conditions of communities, phenomenon tends to become the conservation of ecosystems, stronger and more destructive and the alleviation or mitigation of in the coming years. This climate change. This, through the situation brings us to new promotion of renewable energy, challenges in protecting and improving the living conditions of conserving the ecosystems communities through the financing that make the region so of income-generating activities or unique. development infrastructures (schools, health centers ...), and environmental The year 2018 is a milestone for awareness for a behavior change. Table of content Tany Meva. The Foundation leads conservation as well as sustainable Joelisoa Ratsirarson 2018, a milestone year for Tany Meva ................................................................................................... 3 development oriented actions. Communities should be able to live decently in their environment 2018, a year of positive impacts .............................................................................................................. 4 In this sense, the year 2018 is a key year for Tany Meva. Tany Meva at a glance ............................................................................................................................... 6 It marks the implementation of the fourth strategic plan Key figures of Tany Meva in 2018 ........................................................................................................... 7 Overview of the investment tendency ................................................................................................. 8 Tany Meva project’s areas of intervention ...........................................................................................10 Improving the living conditions of communities ...............................................................................16 Protecting the coastal and marine areas ........................................................................................... 22 Contributing to mitigation and adaptation to climate change ..................................................... 24 Communicating and sharing .................................................................................................................. 25 Managing efficiently our projects ....................................................................................................... 26 Lessons drawn from the community program ............................................................................... 28 Perspectives ............................................................................................................................................... 29 Appendix ...................................................................................................................................................... 30 2 2018 Annual Report Tany Meva 3 2018 Annual Report Tany Meva 2018, a milestone year for Tany Meva Word from the Executive Director A YEAR OF POSITIVE LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS 2018 IMPACTS he activities of Fondation Tany Meva have The year 2018 has made possible the drawing of a IGA : Income Generating Activities MAE : Ministry of Foreign Affairs more and more impacts in the locations positive conclusion in terms of impacts. To generate EBA: Ecosystem-based Adaptation MEEF : Ministry of Environment, Ecology and Forest they are implemented. The sustainable impacts, it is essential that CPA: Community Protected Area MNP : Madagascar National Parks means that are deployed for community projects are supported by T APAA: Landscape Approach in the South East MRPA : Managed Resources Protected Areas conservation and environmental well-structured national or international protection actions are evolving organizations. This allows support to APD : Detailed Project Design NAP : New Protected Area increasingly. The year 2018 carry out the projects efficiently . APO : Open Tender SDG : Sustainable Development goals This observation came out during confirms the stability of funding BTA : Bons de Trésor par Adjudication (Treasury NGO : Non-Governmental Organization with an average level of annual the annual visit of the Board of bills by auctions) OLC : Community-based Organization subsidies of 800,000 Dollars Directors in 2018. The case of the hydroelectric project Amberivery CAFE : Consortium of African Funds for the OSC: Civil Society Organizations during the last three years. Environment or the protection and conservation PAG : Development and Management Plan As part of the 2018 campaign, a of Lake Ravelobe in Ankarafantsika, CC : Climate Change WFP : World Food Programme new approach has been taken in proves that this approach can CBD : Convention on Biological Diversity terms of access to finance for micro generate significant success. And these PBZT : Botanical and Zoological Park of Tsimbazaza CEPF : Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund and small local grassroots community lessons should be replicated elsewhere . PCA : Chairman of the Board of Directors COBA : Local Community structures. These are calls for projects so PHEDER : Pico Hydroelectricity for Rural Development that these structures can benefit directly from the This report transparently highlights the projects and COPIL : Steering Committee GDP: Gross Domestic Product support, without going through carriers of traditional their financing, the challenges and the perspectives that COS : Scientific Steering Committee and professional projects. This approach is particularly PN : National Park are available to the Foundation. CNFEREF : National Environmental and Forestry UNDP : targeted at small newly created or inexperienced Research Training Center United Nations Development Programme associations. This policy of proximity and flexibility Enjoyof reading! SP4 : EDENA : Applied Environmental Education Strategic Plan 4 the eligibility criteria has made it possible to broaden ESSA : RIT : Regional Implementation Team the scope of the Foundation. Claude Fanohiza National Agronomic Sciences School RN : EPP : Public Elementary School Ressources Naturelles (National Resources) TGRN : FAPBM : Madagascar Biodiversity Fund Natural Resources Management Transfer TM : FCCM : Makira Carbone Fund Fondation Tany Meva FTM : Tany Meva Fund EU : European Union UNESCO : GDRN : Sustainable Management of Natural Resources United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization GEF-SGP : Global Environment Facility – Small Grants VSL : Program Village Saving’s Land VOI : Local community HTF : Helmsley Charity Trust Foundation KBA : Key Biodiversity Areas WCS : Wildlife Conservation Society WWF : World Wildlife Fund MADIO : Madagascar and the Indian Ocean Islands 4 2018 Annual Report Tany Meva 2018, a year of positive impacts 5 2018 Annual Report Tany Meva 2018, a year of positive impacts KEY FIGURES OF TANY MEVA AT A GLANCE TANY MEVA IN 2018 Tany Meva is a sustainable development financing institution working in the field of the environment and 2018 was very rich and succesful in terms of projects recognized as being of public utility. The Foundation carried out and implemented. Hereafter an overview of was created in 1996 following the interministerial decree the funding programs n° 300/96 of January 26, 1996. TANY MEVA FUND CEPF FUND Tany Meva is the first Malagasy environmental FOUR FUNDING TOPICS foundation. It holds to the following values: ethics, 2018 national call for projects: 464 projects Launch of a «Small grants» call for projects In the implementation of its Strategic Plan 4 (2017 received 72 eligible, 22 funded projects ($ 5,000 to $ 20,000); receipt of 104 «Major accountability, excellence culture, integrity. Tany including to 2021), the Foundation works through these four Meva supports community-based environmental Grants» projects and grant of 7 new «Big Grants» funding topics. The first is the improvement of the APAA FUND projects and supports research and innovations. The projects (more than $ 20,000) following the living conditions of the communities. The second is launch of a call for projects Foundation also contributes to the achievement 38 projects received, including 6 eligible and the sustainable conservation of ecosystems. The third of international conventions’ objectives such as 3 feasible is mitigation and adaptation to climate change. The PHEDER the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the last concerns actions for behavior change. In 2010, a Grant process duration reduced from 12 to Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Following the commissioning of the first two local center, named Tahala Meva, was created in the 5 months Convention to Combat Desertification and the hydropower plants, four other development projects Atsimo Andrefana region to build the capacity of local Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). 7 future potential Community Protected Areas focused on energy were co-funded by the European communities. (CPA)