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Feedback that helps us improve the Programme is important to us. We would like to hear it.
As part of the Gold Standard for Global Goals process, SaniTap shared the first round feedback and requested further feedback and comment as part of the second-round feedback process. This second round of feedback ran from 8 November to 10 December 2023 and is now formally closed – though we remain open to ongoing input and comment.
All the feedback including the first and second round feedback is available below including the SaniTap responses to each stakeholder feedback.
Do your have further feedback? Your feedback may be in response to the first round of feedback and the SaniTap responses, or it may be new feedback having had time to reflect on the information you have received to date. If so, please leave this feedback using the form which you can find here:
Following the well-attended Stakeholder Consultation Meeting held at the Hotel Azura in Fort Dauphin on 26th October we would like to provide you with the consolidated feedback we received prior to, and at this event.
We have reviewed the comments and provided responses to the submitted feedback. In some cases, the responses are answers to questions raised, in some cases no response is necessary, in some cases the feedback has raised a point that we had not already considered or was not already incorporated in our planning process.
Where comments/feedback have resulted in changes and been incorporated into our project planning, these are indicated. We value how this process has both reinforced and enhanced our planning processes.
The proposed Voluntary Project Activity (VPA) aims to address the lack of access to safe drinking water in rural Madagascar. The project will focus on the repair of non-functional water sources; construction of new water sources; and the ongoing operation & maintenance of these water sources, thereby ensuring a sustainable supply of safe drinking water for non-served communities
In Madagascar, only 9% of the rural population has access to improved water. As a result, most families use unsafe water from rivers. This causes water-borne disease, especially diarrhoea, which contributes to malnutrition and stunting – thus exacerbating the effects of drought and poverty.
There are believed to be at least 10,000 boreholes or wells equipped with handpumps in Madagascar. Unfortunately, our field surveys show that at least 40% are completely non-functioning and another large proportion are significantly degraded and require maintenance before the can be considered as providing ‘safe potable drinking water’.
Most such handpumps were constructed in the past by NGOs or other development organisations, but have fallen into disrepair due to absent technical repair skills, lack of organizational capacity or spare parts, poverty or extreme climate events such as cyclones and drought.
The project aims to rehabilitate these non-functioning rural water points; and maintain them for the duration of the VPA.
In the absence of affordable treatment alternatives, contaminated water should be boiled, which requires firewood and/or charcoal. This emits CO2 and contributes to deforestation – something that can be avoided if people have access to safe drinking water. Using the Gold Standard Methodology for Emissions Reductions from Safe Water, the project will generate voluntary carbon credits. The sale of these will provide a long-term income stream, which, in combination with affordable user fees, pays for the repair of broken-down water points and ensures ongoing maintenance.
By repairing and maintaining the wells, positive impact is created. This includes not only access to safe water but also enables improved gender equality; reduces the time and distance to safe water; improved health through reduction of illness or even death from waterborne disease; and economic savings.
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