The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has concluded an in-country review of Madagascar’s economic situation with a warning that ‘outside shocks’ ‘cloud’ the country’s economic outlook. While the international financial body, which last year stepped in to provide Madagascar with and Extended Credit Facility (ECF) and a Resilience and Sustainability Facility (RSF), both of which it believes can help the…
On Thursday 5th June 2025, the World Bank updated its – and the world’s – poverty metric. Up to that date, the international poverty baseline – the line below which anyone is defined as living in poverty – had been an income of US$2.15 (£1.59 at 8th September 2025) or less per day. From then, the income per day…
A new frog discovery in Madagascar’s South-East reminds us how resilient, but also how threatened, the Malagasy wilderness is. A large frog has been discovered in Madagascar’s Domain de la Cascade Plantation Lansargues nature reserve, in the country’s South-East. The three-inch amphibian, named Love’s Giant Stream Frog (after the herpetologist Bill Love, who has contributed greatly to the understanding…
A Money for Madagascar supporter has raised hundreds of pounds to hep us work with Malagasy men, women and children, with a 100km (62 mile) hill-trek. Gregg Smith completed the timed hike through the UK’s Peak District on 28-29 June, and thanks in part to your help, raised £626, well above his original target of £500. He said: ‘The…
Madagascar will tonight (Saturday 30th August 2025) compete in the Final of the African Nations Championship – the furthest the country has ever reached in an international football tournament. The Barea, whose previous best performance was their third-place in 2022 (the last time the tournament was held) will face two-times winners (2018 and 2020) Morocco, in Nairobi, Kenya at…
Almost 200 children and staff at a Malagasy primary school now have reliable access to safe, clean water, thanks to Money for Madagascar, its partner and funders. The 191 children, and seven staff, at the EPP Ambohipeno, five km from the centre of Antsirabe, had previously had to walk more than two km round trip to collect water from…
The French government has returned three skulls – one believed to be of a Malagasy king decapitated by French troops – to Madagascar in the latest step towards a rapprochement between the two states. The skulls were officially handed over to Malagasy government representatives in a ceremony at the French Culture Ministry in Paris, and are scheduled be carried…
Money for Madagascar is delighted to have been invited to participate in an innovative international tree-growth and care initiative. The Darwin Nursery Exchange Project is in its final year and its last ‘nurserymen workshop’ – designed to share best practice, experience and build networks in creating tree nurseries to enable reforestation in Madagascar – will take place from 2nd…
We at Money for Madagascar are proud to have become a member of the Population Health Environment Madagascar Network (PHE). The 88-member network unites health and environmental organisations, helping one another work with and for more than 830,000 men, women and children in remote and threatened areas. PHE helps organise peer exchange, promotion of best practice and integrated programmatic…
‘It is not enough to be non-racist; we should move forward to be an actively anti-racist sector, ensuring we don’t perpetuate racist behaviours and systems when working with racialised communities.’ Money for Madagascar has signed and is committed to fulfilling the targets of the Wales and Africa programme’s Anti-Racism Charter. As a Malagasy-led development organisation, with extremely close ties…
Mamitiana Rajaonarison has been appointed Madagascar’s new…
Friday 20th March is world frog day,…
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