Empowering Community EbA in Madagascar’s Globally Important Wetlands

WWT aims to enhance biodiversity, boost livelihoods and fight climate change through the improved management of inland wetlands in Madagascar.

This project will help Madagascar improve resilience to climate change in its globally important wetlands through the development of a number of capacities for local managers; the tools to identify climate change vulnerabilities, the means to develop and share Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) responses, and a sustainable financing mechanism to deliver EbA plans, within the “Madagascar Community Wetland Fund”.

It will be implemented in partnership with the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development – which is WWT’s host ministry and the Ramsar Focal Point – and the FAPBM – Africa’s largest sustainable financing mechanism for biodiversity conservation, which manages a capital endowment of USD 140m (2024 figures).

These measures will also help Madagascar to meet its obligations to expand the Ramsar network, which at the moment depends largely on the long-term support of NGOs and global conservation funders.