Paradise Lost?: Lessons from 25 years of USAID Environment Programs in Madagascar (Final Report)
USAID
Paradise Lost? Lessons from 25 years of USAID Environmental programs in Madagascar
This is a unique retrospective on the successes and constraints of USAID's experience in the environment sector in Madagascar from 1984 to the coup in 2009. It firmly places environmental success in the larger economic and governance context. This context makes it extremely difficult to transform the approaches to the environment and stop environmental degradation. The author ends with three options - the one she seems to favor implies a dramatic shift from development business as usual and a much more prominent role for the international community in safeguarding Madagascar's global biodiversity heritage.
Jon Anderson
IRG/Engility
2013-02-16
USAID
- Evaluation
- Country-based case study
Program review
★★★★
- Africa - Southern
- Africa
Madagascar
USAID
- Wildlife
- Biodiversity
- Whole Landscape
- Forest
- NTFPs
- Agriculture
- Minerals
- Biodiversity
- Forest Carbon
- Fostered innovation, social learning, and adaptive management - [Relevant]
- Improved information and knowledge management systems - [Critical]
- Built capacity and invested in human resources - [Relevant]
- Promoted local land use planning and appropriate resource tenure systems - [Critical]
- Promoted cost effective technical advisory and intermediary services - [Relevant]
- Promoted or developed economic strategies for natural resource management - [Critical]
- Assured that resource managers have access to NRM means and benefits - [Critical]
- Invested in local organizations - [Critical]
- Created a framework for better NRM choices - [Critical]
- Strengthened markets and NRM market incentives - [Critical]
- Proportional equivalence between benefits and costs - [Critical]
- Continuous and inclusive consultations - [Relevant]n
- Procedural rights for all people, especially vulnerable or marginalized groups - [Critical]
- Natural resource authority and functions distribution - [Relevant]
- Local stakeholder input into public decisions and policy - [Critical]
- Environmental/productivity - [Yes]
- Governance/empowerment - [Yes]
- Economic/income generation - [Yes]
- Environmental/productivity - [Yes]
- Economic/income generation - [Household]
- Economic/income generation - [Communal]
- Environmental/productivity - [Yes]
- Governance/empowerment - [Yes]
- Economic/income generation - [Yes]
- Lessons learned (Cautionary Tale)
- Governance - [External or structural policies that influenced success or failure]
- Economic - [External or structural policies that influenced success or failure]
- Resources - [External or structural policies that influenced success or failure]