Madagascar’s National Climate Change Adaptation Plan 2021 is centred around three strategic areas 1) strengthen the governance and integration of adaptation 2) implement a priority sectoral action programme and 3) financing adaptation to climate change.
Overall, the adaptation plan includes the following goals:
- Establishment of a green belt to strengthen the fight against desertification and resilience to climate change
- Strengthening the adaptation of the agricultural sector and the resilience of rural populations in the far South
- Strengthening the resilience of rural populations through the development and organisation of export sectors
- Strengthening the adaptation of the fisheries sector and developing warning systems and associated action plans
- Improving access to drinking water in urban and rural areas
- Strengthening early warning systems to ensure the health sector's resilience in the face of climate change
- Accelerating reforestation through the operationalisation of the REDD+ mechanism and the development of ecosystem services
- Improving the conservation of natural forests and the management of protected areas including the development of climate refuge zones in the interior and on the periphery
- Protection of coastal infrastructures and economic activities (including tourism) against the rise sea level rise
- Improving early warning systems for cyclones, as part of a regional effort at the level of the Indian Ocean level
- Development of resilient rice paddies that emit less methane
- Optimisation of the resilience of new technologies
