Major Lessor for the preservation of the environment in Madagascar, the World Bank wants to be logical in itself by selecting the Big Island from the 6 pilot countries for implementation of the project WAVES Partenership or Partnership Global - Nature Accounting and Monetary Valuation of Environmental Services.
Despite the boycott of the international community, the World Bank held earlier this month a workshop to launch the project in its offices in Antananarivo. According to the official statement: "The goal of this partnership, launched by the World Bank President Robert Zoellick at the 10th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity in Nagoya (Japan) in October 2010, is assist governments in developing countries and developed to better integrate environmental services in their national accounts and development plans. " The statement added: "Ministries of Finance often perform allocations on the basis of information from national accounts which underestimate the real contribution of the environment and natural resources in the economy because goods and environmental services often have no market price "said Glenn-Marie Lange, Senior Environmental Economist World Bank and Senior Manager of the Global Partnership. This leads to government policies and investment decisions that are not optimal from a economic standpoint.
So did we gradually shifted towards the establishment of a national green accounting to help policy makers make the best choices. For this' monetary valuation of environmental services has gradually directed towards the establishment of a "green national accounts", which includes the calculation of the contribution of ecosystem services and natural resources to economic growth and poverty reduction and the calculation of the benefits of protecting the environment and that the costs of its degradation. Natural capital - which consists of mining, forestry, fisheries, water, farmland and protected areas - is particularly important in countries with low income. In Madagascar the share of natural capital is estimated at 49 percent of total real wealth of the country. "
Despite sanctions, therefore, Madagascar was selected for the project. "The Global Partnership covers a period of five years for a $ 15 million and began with six pilot countries in the developing world including Madagascar, which was selected because of its extraordinary biodiversity and the long involvement of the Bank World in the environmental sector. The preparation phase will last until December 2011. It will include an assessment of available data, identification of priorities for environmental services and environmental policy, the establishment of a steering committee and develop a detailed work plan for the four years of the second phase, "the statement added.
This is certainly the first project initiated by the World Bank in Madagascar under the Transition. He could be the second if the nth if the uprisings in the Arab world had intervened earlier.
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