Madagascar: Vulnerability Assessment Committee Results 2017
- The improvement of the situation is likely due the following reasons:
Improvement in food availability and access (own production)
Stability in food prices (Cereals)
Decrease in childhood illness (Diarrhea, malaria and acute respiratory infections)
- Challenges
Integration of nutrition in the VAA remains a challenge (lack of resources such as funding, skills capacity etc.)
Availability of recent data
Tropical Storm risks
- Recommendations
Provision of food assistance to people with severe food insecurity.
Prioritize immediate recovery activities in the nutritional and food vulnerability pockets so as to reduce the intensity during the next lean season which is expected to be early in view of the predicted crop decrease for the 2016-2017 main season
Continue provision of humanitarian aid for the populations classified in IPC 3 and 4 phases until September 2017.
Assist with reconstruction and reinforcement of livelihoods and/or assets
Improve the coordination of emergency aid and recovery actions so as to mitigate the deterioration of the vulnerability situation, particularly in the Great South.
Prioritize WASH activities in food insecure zones, which can contribute directly to the improvement of the situation regarding malnutrition and mortality.
Early Warning Systems
Infographic here:
https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/sadc_madagascar_2017.pdf
Dans Mongabay
Foreigners have dominated scientific research in Madagascar, with more than 9 out of 10 publications on biodiversity led by foreigners from 1960 to 2015.
A series of programs aimed at boosting early career Malagasy scientists is now bearing fruit as local researchers take on leadership roles in conservation.
But Madagascar’s higher education system remains weak and deeply under-funded, so that the best chance of rigorous training and support for graduate work often comes through connections overseas.
(..) “What is the main reason you do research?” asked Herman Rafalinirina, a PhD candidate in primatology at the University of Antananarivo’s Department of Paleontology and Physical Anthropology. “For example, you go to a place in the forest, you analyze the data, and afterwards you publish it. Ok, Why? If you work to be a scientist, you have to be a good advocate for the local people, you have to tell exactly what is the thing that you found. How many foreigners did that after they published something — to go back to the field to tell to the local people what they found? That is the problem. You convince people, you work to save the lemurs, to do research here, and then [you never come back].” Malagasy scientists, he said, are more likely to return.
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