Washington — The World Financial institution Group has accepted US$225 million in financing for the Built-in City Improvement and Resilience Venture for Jobs (PRODUIRE2) to strengthen local weather resilience, enhance infrastructure, and create extra and higher jobs in Larger Antananarivo and Larger Toamasina.
Madagascar’s quickly rising cities face mounting challenges. In early 2026, cyclones Fytia and Gezani brought about damages estimated on the equal to three.4 % of the nation’s GDP. In Larger Antananarivo, excessive city poverty has greater than doubled over the previous decade, regardless of the capital producing near 44 % of GDP. Recurrent flooding, insufficient infrastructure, and insecure land tenure deter personal funding, restrict financial alternatives, and hold the town’s most susceptible residents locked in poverty.
Constructing on the World Financial institution-supported city resilience program in Antananarivo, PRODUIRE2 will deepen investments in flood safety, drainage, strong waste administration, neighborhood upgrading, and land administration in Larger Antananarivo. In Larger Toamasina, the place cyclone Gezani broken 70 % of the housing inventory, the venture will deal with rebuilding resilient housing and rehabilitating essential public infrastructure resembling faculties and well being amenities. By 2032, the venture goals to deliver climate-resilient infrastructure to 1.5 million folks, reconstruct 20,000 houses to resilient requirements, concern land documentation for 50,000 parcels, and generate roughly 17,000 jobs — laying the groundwork for sustained personal funding, jobs, and financial development.
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“When cities work higher, folks reside higher. With the assist of this new World Financial institution Group-financed venture, households will profit from safer neighborhoods, higher infrastructure, improved entry to land providers, and higher financial alternatives. This funding will assist create jobs, assist native companies, and provides extra folks the possibility to construct a brighter future for his or her households,” stated Dr Herinjatovo Ramiarison, Minister of Financial system and Finance of Madagascar. “
The venture may even deal with insecure land tenure – practically half of the land in Antanarivo lacks formal titles, a key barrier to city improvement and funding. PRODUIRE2 will assist land regularization and digital land providers to assist residents acquire legally acknowledged documentation and streamline transactions. At the very least 40 % of latest land paperwork issued will embody ladies as sole or joint rights holders.
“Cyclone Gezani broken practically 70 % of houses in Toamasina and disrupted the lives of hundreds of households. Via PRODUIRE2, households will probably be supported to rebuild stronger houses, whereas essential public infrastructure and providers will probably be restored and strengthened. The College of Barikadimy, which suffered in depth injury, will probably be totally rebuilt to larger requirements so it will possibly proceed serving college students for generations to return. In Larger Antananarivo, investments in flood safety, drainage infrastructure, together with the Canal C3 ter and Canal C3 bis, strong waste administration, and land administration will assist scale back flooding and provides households higher peace of thoughts through the wet season. At its coronary heart, this venture is about serving to folks reside extra safely, creating higher financial alternatives, and enabling households to deal with what issues most: their youngsters’s future, their work, and their well-being.”, stated Atou Seck, World Financial institution Group Nation Supervisor for Madagascar.
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PRODUIRE2 displays a long-term partnership between the Authorities of Madagascar and the World Financial institution Group It can assist Antananarivo and Toamasina to turn out to be extra resilient, inclusive, and dynamic engines of development.
PRODUIRE2 is supported by the International Facility for Catastrophe Discount and Restoration (GFDRR) and by the High quality Infrastructure Funding (QII) Partnership financed by the Authorities of Japan, which give technical and analytical help to strengthen Madagascar’s framework for catastrophe threat administration, city resilience, and infrastructure high quality.
Contacts
In Madagascar: Dia Styvanley, +261 34 78 254 44, dstyvanley@worldbank.org
In Washington: Daniella van Leggelo-Padilla, +1 (202) 473-4989, dvanleggelo@worldbank.org
