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Active women for a more effective mangrove conservation
In 2016, in the Manambolo Tsiribihina landscape, WWF supported five women’s associations in the Tsiribihina Delta focusing on duck breeding in the villages of Mavohatoka, Antsakoamaliniky and Tsimandrafoza, as well as embroidery and craft activities in the villages of Ankirijivato and Soarano, as a means to improve local wellbeing.
The objective is for them to improve their living conditions in order to reduce the pressures on natural resources: intermittent charcoal production with mangrove wood for quick cash, uncontrolled fishing of for food, and catching and selling juvenile crabs during the closing season.
These women chose what activities they wanted to undertake to improve their daily lives, to make their contributions to the villages and especially to support the conservation of forests, in the same way that the communities’ men contribute to their wellbeing. Three women's associations from the five villages received technical support from the NGO FANOITRA with the support of WWF.
Up until December 2016, a total of 56 women in difficult social situations, belonging to 350 households from the villages of Mavohatoka, Andreketa, Ankirijivato and Tsimandrafoza, benefited from training and capacity building. These women together restored more than 20 ha of mangrove forests.