INRM Madagascar Nosy Manga Baseline Report
The USAID/Madagascar Nosy Manga Baseline Survey and Report provides USAID and Nosy Manga implementing partners (IPs) with baseline estimates across a range of social indicators, and background information on target communities to aid IPs in implementation and participant selection.
The Nosy Manga activity will focus on promoting sustainable seaweed and sea cucumber farming in the Menabe region and the MaMaBay seascape in the Sava region, including Makira protected areas, Masoala National Park, and Antongil Bay, with plans for expansion of the sea cucumber farms into Atsimo Andrefana and Anosy.
USAID/Madagascar is conducting this baseline through a buy-in to the USAID Integrated Natural Resource Management (INRM) contract. The survey team includes INRM, two in-country consultants, and the in-country data collection firm, CAETIC. The survey team carried out community surveys and household surveys in all 16 villages across Sava and Menabe, identified by Nosy Manga IPs to roll out sustainable seaweed and sea cucumber farming programs. The household surveys conducted are representative of the targeted villages but are not necessarily representative of the regions. Following this baseline study, the survey team will also develop a simplified social monitoring tool to hand over to the IPs as they roll out in other villages in the future.
