Madagascar Regional Program

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Madagascar Regional Program

• CBC Ecotourism Program

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I Stratégic Directions

1. Support production of instruments for ecotourism
   development in all types of Protected Areas
2. Support Tourism Assessment of Priority Key
   Biodiversity Areas is conducted
3. Assessment of service value chain for tourism
   investments in selected KBAs
4. Support key institutions needed for active
   promotion of biodiversity conservation and to
   influence national tourism policy to support
   implementation of ecotourism strategies
5. Foster mechanisms that enable partnerships
   (including community involvement) to achieve
   biodiversity conservation outcomes selected KBAs,
   through ecotourism.

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II Successfull results

• Key Persons of Ecotourism Development in the
  Corridor Mantadia Zahamena are mobilized through
  CDE (Comités de Développement de l'Ecotourisme)
  in Alaotra, Mangoro and Atsinanana Subregions
• Tourism Assessment of the Corridor is done to
  help decision makers and key persons to plan
  ecotourism management and development iin the
  Corridor
• Regional Planning is on process by the Commitees
  that includes Private Sectors, PA Managers,
  Tourism and Forest Department, Regional
  Development Officer, NGOs and Donors
•  Madagascar , movies Passport.

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II Current Tourism Activities

• Support the CDEs to finalize the Regional
  Ecotourism Planning that will define each
  responsabilities of each stakeholders
• Identify technical and financial needs that CI
  can support
• Partnership development with IFC /PEP USAID
  PIC /WB VV
• Increasing Competitiveness of Micro and Small
  Entreprises in the Tourism Industry of Madagascar
  (An Innovative Approach to Economic Growth and
  Poverty Reduction

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Major Challenges

• Low level of community tourism services
• Lack of understanding between tourism SMEs and
  community/ PAs managers
• Lack of niche market targeting in National and
  international level
• Biodiversity Outcomes Monitoring
• Financial and Policy environment that should
  enable investment including land tenure and
  financial system, basic infrastructure
  development (water, road, acces, energy)

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Increasing Competitiveness of Micro and Small
Entreprises in the Tourism Industry of Madagascar
(Main outputs)

• Value chain analysis

Tourists End Markets
Outgoing TO
Tourism Board and Ecotourism Developpers
Inbound TO
Hub Hotel
Transport provider
Local Accomodation
Food services
Recreational services
PAs Management
Communities services
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Supports needed

• End market targeting program
• Financial Supports for community-based
  infrastructures
• Technical assistance in project evaluation and
  monitoring

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Offers from Madagascar Fields

• Implementation of CI Ecotourism Approach
• Programs Exchanges in Tourism focused on
  Protected Areas and Communities benefits

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Thank you and
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Welcome to Madagascar