3.3 Scale-up PHE activities in Madagascar
In Madagascar, BALANCED had been assessing capacity building needs and planning to conduct a workshop on PHE program design for NGOs implementing or new to PHE
interventions. At the beginning of this reporting period, CIArlington CIHQ and CIMadagascar CIM staff began reviewing and revising the draft report on Madagascar
PHE activities and capacity building needs. The draft report was produced in the previous reporting period, in collaboration with USAIDWashington, PRB and WWF-US,
WWFMadagascar and Voahary Salama, a national network of PHE organizations working in Madagascar. These groups had formed a Madagascar PHE working group in the spring
of 2009. The Madagascar-based PHE working group members met on July 23, 2009 to review the
report and develop a collaborative workplan for the next year. At the same time, the US State Department issued a suspension decision memo instructing all US-based NGOs to
stop activities by August 14, 2009 and to initiate close-out procedures. Termination of US Government assistance was the result of the country’s latest political crisis, in which in the
democratically-elected Malagasy president was overthrown in the spring 2009. The change in government caused the US Government USG to suspend support for development
health and conservation, in particular activities. Therefore, the Madagascar PHE report has not been finalized and members of the PHE
working group in Madagascar have been reassigned to other non-USG funded tasks by their respective organizations. This represents a major challenge to CI and the
BALANCED Project, since we have lost a significant opportunity for PHE in Madagascar. Future capacity building and scaling-up activities will depend up on a resolution to the
political crisis and a resumption of USG support. Year 2 funds for these capacity building activities were pipelined in order to respond to Madagascar once USAID restrictions are
lifted.
3.4 Provide one seed grant to one conservation NGO in Ethiopia
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