TALAKY BE - Help strengthen the resilience of livelihoods from households facing climate change

Countries

Madagascar

Fields

Agroforestry Biodiversity Climate Forest

Main goals

Contribute to strengthening the resilience of livelihoods from households facing climate change

Specific objectives

SO1. Stengthen the resilience of farming households

SO2. Manage sustainably forest landscapes

SO3. Strengthen social and territorial cohesion

Beneficiaries

Targeted households: 7,560

Results

R1. Resilient agriculture is practiced by households

R2. The resilience of vulnerable groups is strengthened

R3. Forest landscapes are restored

R4. The Beampingaratsy ecological corridor is preserved

R5. Sustainable and participatory forest management is supported

R6. The implementation of municipal land-use planning tools is supported

Activities

Component 1: Adaptation of agriculture to climate change
A1. Establishing and facilitating an information and advisory support system for climant-change-resilient agriculture
A2. Promoting diversification and improving the resilience of livestock farming
A3. Soil conservation and the development of sensitive agricultural areas
A4. Technical and material support for the structuring of resilient sectors
A5. Improving farmers' access to improved resilient seeds

Component 2: Restoration and sustainable management of forest landscapes and water source protection areas
A6. Establishing landscape and forest management plans
A7. Implementing landscape and forest restoration (LFR) through community, lineage, and individual approaches
A8. Implementing LFR in degraded forest areas under management transfer
A9. Developing specific activities to protect springs and riverbanks

Component 3: Contribution to social and territorial cohesion
A10. Supporting the structuring of the Anosy Region's Land Use Planning Department
A11. Strengthening the region's mapping capabilities
A12. Strengthening the capacity of municipalities to implement local planning documents
A13. Facilitating the land use planning process at the municipal level
A14. Contributing to the implementation of municipal climate change adaptation projects

Component 4: Project management, coordination, and monitoring and evaluation
This component will cover all management costs related to project implementation, including the deployment of activities in the field, with the management costs of the operating NGOs and the functioning of the UGP

Related people

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Agricultural technician / Agriculture & Market / Madagascar

Selido Ravelopisaorana

He is a technician specializing in cash crops, trained by the FITARIK'ANDRO school then he continued his studies at the University in the National Center for Distance Education of Madagascar in Fort-Dauphin

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Country Representative in Madagascar / Project Manager

Tsoa Andrianamenosoa Rakotondrasoa Miaratiana

Engineer in Agricultural Sciences from the University of Antananarivo, holder of a Master 2 in planning and management of tropical ecosystems (University of Lomé), a Master in Agroecology, Biodiversity and Climate Change (University of Antananarivo and Montpellier SupAgro) and a Master in Agroecology and Resource Management from Bordeaux Sciences Agro. He coordinates the Nitidæ sub-office in Fort-Dauphin and brings his expertise to the setting up and coordination of two major projects in the southern and southeastern part of Madagascar: Talaky Be financed by AFD and the European Union and Beampingaratsy National Protected Area financed by the Rainforest Trust Foundation

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Project manager / Forest & REDD+ / Madagascar

Eddie Rakotondrasoa

Holder of a specialized higher education diploma in environmental sciences from the Faculty of Sciences (University of Antananarivo), he brings his expertise in the field of conservation and management of projects financed by the AFD or the European Union. His skills are currently exercised in the Beampingaratsy forest corridor, a forest in the southern part of Madagascar, currently being converted into a New Protected Area as part of the Beampingaratsy National Protected Area project

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Value chain and gender technical assistant / Forest & REDD+ / Madagascar

Michelle Robertha Razafindramarakoma

She holds a degree in environmental science with an option in management and conservation of the natural environment. She worked in forest management at Asity (Bird Protection League) in Fort Dauphin in 2016 and then was hired on the Talaky project in 2020 as a value chain, territory and gender technician

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Agriculture manager - Lead agri / Agriculture & Market / Madagascar

Elodie Marie Princia Randrianantenaina

An Agricultural Engineer by training, specialized in Tropical Agriculture and Sustainable Development, she has 5 years of experience in the field of rural development. She brings her expertise on the development of cash crops value chains in order to contribute to strengthening the resilience of households to climate change in Madagascar.

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Responsible for the Landscape and Forest Restoration component / Forest & REDD+ / Madagascar

Miarintsoa Rakotondrabe

Forest engineer graduated from the Higher School of Agronomic Sciences - Department: Water and Forests - University of Antananarivo (Madagascar) and graduated with a Master 2 in Development, Environment and Society within the Faculty of Economic, Social, Political and of communication Catholic University of Louvain (Louvain La Neuve - Belgium).

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Agriculture Technical Manager / Agriculture & Market / Madagascar

Guy Manu Arihery

He has an engineering degree in agriculture from the Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Agronomiques (ESSA). He worked within the NGO CTAS before joining the team in May 2024. He brings his expertise in the field of agro-ecology and landscape management as part of the Talaky Be project.

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Head of Support / Madagascar

Bako Ravalison

She holds a Master’s degree in Project Management from IST-Antananarivo (Madagascar) and has over 20 years’ experience in the administrative and financial management of multi-donor projects. She joined Nitidæ in November 2025, where she helps to implement and monitor projects carried out in Madagascar.

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Procurement Manager / Madagascar

Navoko Randrianarijaona

She holds a Master’s degree in Market and Banking Finance and a Bachelor’s degree in Management, specialising in Audit and Control, from the University of Antananarivo, and has gained solid accounting experience whilst working at TOP-EC (2014–2015) and JAEL APICULTURE (2016–2018). She joined the team in 2019 as an accountant and logistics officer for the BIOGAZ DIANA project, before contributing to the MADANACA project from 2020, and subsequently progressing to the role of internal controller. Since February 2025, she has held the position of Procurement Manager, where she is responsible for planning, managing and monitoring procurement procedures and contracts in accordance with donor rules and applicable standards.

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GIS, Remote Sensing and Carbon Project Manager / Forest & REDD+ / Madagascar

Fety Abel Rakotomalala

Currently a PhD student, he holds a DEA of Physics, specialised in "geophysics, remote sensing and GIS" from the Faculty of Sciences of Antananarivo in Madagascar (IOGA). He brings his expertise to the impacts of deforestation, above-ground biomass mapping and scenario development of carbon emissions

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GIS & Remote Sensing Task Officer / Forest & REDD+ / Madagascar

Léa Njatomalala

A graduate of the Faculty of Science at the University of Antananarivo in Madagascar, she specialised in Remote Sensing & GIS applied to land use planning and natural resource management through a master’s degree at the Institute and Observatory of Geophysics of Antananarivo (IOGA). She has collaborated on several projects related to land use mapping, forest dynamics analysis and spatial modelling of anthropogenic pressures in various regions of Madagascar and recently joined Nitidæ as a geomatics specialist in Madagascar.