Growing Sustainable Business

GSB in Madagascar

Launched in November 2003, the GSB Delivery Mechanism in Madagascar is actively facilitating innovative and pro-poor business ventures in various sectors. The GSB Coordinating Group in Madagascar comprises members from Government, the private sector, NGOs, and the development partners.

Latest News from GSB Madagascar

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GSB Projects

Malaria & Artemisia
Lead Company: Bionexx
Bionexx aims to grow and harvest artemisia in Madagascar in order to extract artemisinin for Artemisinin Combination Therapy (ACT) treatments of malaria. Download project brief

Eco Tourism Project
Lead Company: Le Monde en Version Originale (MVO)
This project enables Madagascar to benefit from its high tourism potential, with a broad diversity of landscape, flora and fauna unknown elsewhere in the world, matchless beaches, and a magnificent marine environment, all prime assets for the development of eco-tourism, plus a rich cultural heritage and craft tradition. Download project brief

VOHITRA Environment
Lead Company: VOHITRA Environment
This project is the first of its kind in Madagascar. It is looking at providing a public service through a PPP. It will be working in synergy with authorities, NGOs and private sector companies already involved in waste sorting, collection and/or valorisation. Download project brief

Lokoho Project
Lead Company: E7-Fund (EDF, RWE, Hydro Quebec)
Provision of electricity infrastructure to serve rural communities, SMEs, and social service providers through construction of a hydro-power plant and its related distribution network. Download project brief

Microfinance Project
Lead Company: BFV - Société Générale
BFV-SG co-finances micro and small entrepreneurs (MSE) screened by Entreprendre à Madagascar (EAM). Download project brief

Industrial Wind Energy Centre
Lead Company: Mad'Eole
Creation of an industrial wind energy centre in Antsiranana (Diego region). Download project brief

Hotel Gasy Franchise
Lead Company: Tsara Ketrika
A project to establish a franchise of local fast food restaurants ("hotely gasy partners" or HGP). Download project brief

Energy Diversification to LPG
Lead Company: Vitogaz
Energy diversification to LPG to reduce dependency on wood energy and pressures on unsustainably managed or protected forests. Download project brief

Drinkable Water
Lead Company: BushProof
Manufacture, market and sale of range of affordable household drinking water solutions to individual low-income families. Download project brief

Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor
Lead Company: Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor
The WSUP project comes as a complement to the "Education for Sustainable Sanitation" program developed by the UN volunteer program and the CUA (Commune Urbaine d'Antananarivo). Download project brief

Bamboo Processing Factory for Export
Lead Company: Madagscar Bamboo
Madagascar Bamboo aims to become a key supplier of processed high-quality bamboo flooring to export markets in the US, Europe and Australia. Download project brief

Malagasy Handicrafts
Lead Company: Mad Imports
Mad Imports is a US-based fair trade company that works with artists in Madagascar to design and produce handmade handbags from renewable materials. Download project brief

Fruits and Vegetables Processing
Lead Company: SOTRAFEL
SOFTRAFEL Its aim is to source its raw material directly from farmers in selected production regions of Madagascar to increase productivity and decrease costs. Its processing plant is to be set-up close to the Malagasy capital for easy access to both collection areas and export routes. Mad Imports is a US-based fair trade company that works with artists in Madagascar to design and produce handmade handbags from renewable materials. Download project brief