Category: Madagascar
A family reunion in Madagascar: highlights from the Blue Ventures Team Conference 2019
Two hundred Blue Ventures staff from across the world met in the highlands of Madagascar to learn, share, sing and dance, energising the team to meet the challenges of the new decade ahead
Making space for health: building community health huts in Madagascar
Supporting five communities in northern Madagascar to unlock access to basic healthcare by working together to fund, design and build dedicated health huts
Curiosity, discomfort, new understanding: an insider’s account of our latest health-environment research
How did it feel when we placed our integrated health-environment programme under scrutiny?
Every voice counts: a participatory approach to periodic fishery closures
Community-collected data inspires fishers in the Barren Isles archipelago to adapt their management strategy
Why I keep coming back to BV
Roger Vaughan has been volunteering with us for over a decade, and says a Blue Ventures expedition is an adventure like no other
Blue carbon moments
Ismaël Ratefinjanahary reflects on some of the landmark moments in Blue Ventures’ blue carbon journey
Madagascar’s measles epidemic: the story on the ground
Collaborating with community health workers to support treatment and vaccination in remote areas
Emmanuel’s story: fuelwood plantations in Tsimipaika Bay
Wood is an indispensable resource for communities in Madagascar, but forests are disappearing at an alarming rate
Clawing back a sustainable future
If there’s a creature in Madagascar with bad PR that deserves redemption, then it is surely the humble mangrove mud crab...
Turtle fishing in the Barren Isles
A complex conservation issue
Using smartphones to improve community health
For community health workers in remote parts of Madagascar, smartphones can be a real game changer
Health for all: putting words into action
Celebrating World Health Day with communities and partners in northwest Madagascar
Behind the lens: how communities helped craft a global film about locally led marine conservation
Communities in Comoros, Indonesia and Madagascar filmed the openings of their octopus fishery closures, bringing their own unique perspectives to this marine management approach.
Making fisheries management fun
Using an interactive game to explain the principles behind fisheries management
The role of Safidy: reflecting on Blue Ventures’ community health programme
Why does a marine conservation organisation work in community health?