Finally, after a 14-month wait, the Swiss Ambassador in Madagascar has supplied the environmental compliance certificate. The project is back on track and, with the overhanging threat removed, the weight
- Assess the environmental impacts
- Develop reforestation plans
- Apply sustainable management programmes
- Restore bioversity and protect the ecosystem
- Train and promote education: employability
- Create job opportunities: poverty reduction
- Develop subsistence agriculture: food security
- Provide access to medical and hospital care
- Implement long term and rational work conditions
- Support the creation of micro-enterprises
- Structure and organise forest exploitation
- Guarantee the fair trading of farm and forest products