Empowering advocacy and agents
of change, to improve lives
3 case Studies based on the madagascan sapphire
fever
Presenter : HARIMALALA TSIVERISOA Herizo/ geologist, lapidary trainer
Date : 29 April 2015
Empowering advocacy and agents of change,
improving people’s lives
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Overview of the presentation:
About Madagascar
description of Madagascar alumni’s Return to Work plan
description of the case study
Case 1: empowering women ‘s association
Case 2: empowering women leaders
Case 3: empowering persons with physical disabilities
Aims: to share the stories , the challenges and solutions,
successes and failures
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madagascar
Capital: antananarivo
Currency: malagasy ariary
(3000ariary=1USD)
Citizenship: malagasy
Population: 22millions
Mining substances: gemstones,
nickel, cobalt, ilmenite,
hydrocarbon and gaze, gold,
iron ore,….
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Joint Return to Work Plan
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description of the projects related to empowerment
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Approach:
Capacity
building
supportive
action
for
business
development,
• Target audience: persons in
vulnerable situations
• Outcome: improving skills and
capability, develop an activity generating
revenue for themselves and for their
community.
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Project : empowering women in
gemstone mining as agents of change for a
sustainable developement from mining
resources
• Beneficiaries: the women’s association
« Karazambato » Ilakaka Madagascar
• Financial Partner: IM4DC Grants for
Alumni
• Malagasy partner: alumni involved as
key persons
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Improving women’s
livelihood from
gemstone resources by
local capacity building
and business promotion.
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Hanita, 27 years old
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Tantely , 30 years old
Mamy, 27 years old
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Challenges:
• Lack of Emerging leaders from
local community
• low literacy level of miners:
• Huge project:
• Very specific project and
approach
• Lack of supportive politics
• Cooperation between large
scale and small scale mining
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• ANDRIAMISEZA MALLET Lova, the leader of the association
« Les Mères du Sud » (Mothers from the South)
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Tahiry, a faceter in
Antananarivo
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Empowering persons with physical disabilities :
Offering an opportunity in gem business to persons
with limited and selective activities.
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Challenges for persons with disabilities:
• activities related to identifying, designing and
cutting gems requires good eyesight and manual
ability.
• some special measures and fitting out of the
workshop for disabled persons is required for safety
and mobility reasons
• Physical disabilities make some employers doubt
about the person’s productivity potentiel.
• Some employers abuse persons in vulnerable
situation adding to the lack of self confidence of the
disabled persons.
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Recommandations:
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awarness of the potentiel of
small scale mining as a path for
developement;
• Cooperation between
stakeholders;
• Very strong follow up in exit
strategy for a sustainable activity.
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Misaotra tompoko,
Thank you for your attention!
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