Our people

Lead the design and piloting of the community management agreement (a formal agreement between protected area managers and local communities, fundamental to co-managed protected areas)

Lead the ongoing support for the reform of Madagascar’s national PA safeguard policies led by the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development

Lead the establishment of a database of evidence on social safeguards by collating evidence on what works best to ensure that local people affected by PAs share equitably in the benefits generated by them.

Overcoming information deficiencies and credit constraints to the adoption of climate-resilient agriculture (CRA) : Fetra uses a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the Impacts of information and credit transfer on socio-economic (welfare and income) and environmental outcomes (CRA adoption).

Socio-economics, behavioral economics, biodiversity conservation, experimental games, social equity, village savings and loans associations

Study forest-edge communities perceptions of the enablers and obstacles to the adoption of climate-smart agriculture (CSA)

Analyse the compounding impacts of COVID-19, cyclone and vanilla price collapse on food security and natural resource use in rural Madagascar.

Use advanced modeling and state-of-the-art remote sensing and spatial analysis techniques to measure multiple risks linked to climate change (e.g. the incidence of cyclones, floods and droughts)

Mirado is responsible for keeping the project accounts, secretarial work and managing project office supplies, assisting with the logistics of workshop and meeting planning and implementation.

Karen dedicates herself to agroeconomics and finance, with a focus on project management. Her commitment involves addressing the social needs of vulnerable rural populations, contributing to the development of Madagascar