The National
Environmental Policy
in Madagascar

This national policy of the environment proposes:

• To stop the spiral of the degradation in which Madagasikara is aspired;

• To reconcile the Man and his environment so that the present generation and those to come can live in total harmony;

• To integrate the environmental policy in global development policies of the country.

All things considered, “the ambition of the PNE is not other than to reconcile these two entities to bring them to a symbiosis ”.

And this is why, no environmental action can be distinguished from a development action in favour of man.

This is why the concept of conservation cannot be dissociated from that of development. Indeed, “there cannot be conservation of the environment without development, the conservation having to be the fruit of a rational development in harmony with nature ”.

If the finality of our PNE is to ' reconcile the malagasy people with his environment ', its objectives are the following:

• To develop human resources
  1. by reinforcing the sensibilization and the training of the populations;
  2. by causing the participation of the population in particular by reinforcing the associative movements to supplement,to support or perfect the capacity of public management;
  3. by “moralizing the public life” compared to our culture, our legislation, our needs for development...
  4. by reinforcing the topic “environment” in general education programs
  5. and to develop the dies of formation and research;
  6. to exploit and develop any medium to pass the “environment”message.

• To promote a durable, equitable development and distributed well on the territory.
  1. by inventoringnatural resources to manage them and judiciously plan their use;
  2. by saving natural resources;
  3. in better developing the local natural resources;
  4. by rehabilitating and/or maintaining the natural fertility of the medium and by stimulating its capacity of resistance to diseases and parasites;
  5. by stressing particularly on the little populated zones with strong potential to be able to gradually relieve congestion where the demographic pressure on the resources is strong;
  6. by referencing the investments so that the latter ensure the perennity of the development without carrying damage to natural resources.

• To rehabilitate, preserve and manage the malagasy biodiversity which is unique in the world and to support the development of ecological tourism.

• To improve the framework of life of the rural and urban populations so that they can profit from a noticeable improvement of the daily living conditions.

• To take care to maintain the balances between growth of the population and development of the resources.

To give the maximum of chance of success to this policy, the seven following conditions will have to be met beforehand:

• To instigate the institutional framework by insufflating a new spirit to the existing institutions and to make them become aware of their respective responsibilities for better preserving and managing the environment.
• To disengage the State. The role of the State is to lay down the policy, to develop the incentives necessary, to follow and evaluate the reactions. It remains to the private operators - associations of users, ONG and private companies - to preserve and emphasize the resources of the country.
• To improve the tools of control of the evolution of our environment, to refine our policy and to be able to act in convenient time.
• To develop the research finalized in the field of the environment.
• To lay down a demography policy in order to quantify and qualify the foreseeable real needs for the nation.
• To cleanse the relations between the man and his surroundings by solving the problems of land securisation.

The implementation of this policy requires an institutional framework, comprising a certain number of entities.

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