Antananarivo, Madagascar

Madagascar’s capital city, Antananarivo, has a population of around 1.6 million, and is growing at about 3.5% per year. A significant proportion of the population lives below the poverty line: the city’s median annual income is below $US250.

The Rano Soa Sy Fidiovana Project will improve access to water and sanitation services for over 200,000 people living in peri-urban communes and central urban communities in the city of Antananarivo, Madagascar.

Best estimates are that 1 million out of the city’s 1.6 million population have inadequate water and sanitation services and suffer the effects of poor hygiene. Alongside infrastructure and delivery improvements the programme will build the capacity of both local and municipal service providers to sustain the enhanced services over time.

Key Achievements to date

Demonstrated models of service delivery to the urban poor

• Sustainable service improvements for 147,000 urban poor for water and 30,000 for sanitation, demonstrating replicable models for the city’s 600,000 low income consumers

• Community led service management system through Water User Associations operating and managing services on a financially viable basis

• Strengthened sanitation market  through lower cost latrine components, a wider range of products by private sector and stronger demand through use of promotional messaging triggering behaviour change

Strengthened institutional capacity to sustain improvement process

• Improved capacity within utility to reduce NRW in Antananarivo and other towns, significantly improving supplies to the peri-urban areas and revenues to the company

• Pro-poor policy reforms including streamlined water services connection policy

• Strategy developed for climate proofing urban water and sanitation services

Investment mobilised for scale up of models

• Commitment of city utility and municipality to invest own resources in expanding service models across the city

• WSUP programme and approach shared with World Bank mission beginning development of PPP focused programme

• City Utility providing co-financing and match funding for programmes

• Water User Associations extending water services from revenues collected and cross subsidising environmental sanitation 

Successful models promoted to sector worldwide

• Assessment of cross subsidising sanitation from water revenues in Antananarivo published in WSUP Practice Note series