Fiary

With the support of the French Embassy, ADRA Madagascar implements, over a 12-month period from September 2025 to September 2026, the FIARY Project, an integrated initiative for the empowerment of women and girls in the districts of Manjakandriana and Avaradrano. The project focuses on access to essential services, entrepreneurship, and the prevention of gender-based violence (GBV).

FIARY will be implemented in 12 fokontany across these districts and will contribute to improving the living conditions of 3,169 women and 1,603 adolescent girls in Manjakandriana and Avaradrano districts (Analamanga Region) through a set of complementary interventions. In collaboration with CSOs and local associations, the project aims to strengthen access to sexual, reproductive, and maternal health services, promote healthy practices in water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), support women’s economic empowerment through technical and personal development training, access to microcredit, and mentoring programs, as well as prevent gender-based violence through community awareness campaigns.

FIARY will also leverage the “ADRA Fihavanana Collective” initiative, an innovative multi-stakeholder partnership approach, to establish strategic synergies with the private sector and CSOs, including Carrefour Madagascar and SIMIRALENTA.

The FIARY Project pursues four specific objectives:

1. Improve women’s and girls’ access to professional healthcare and prevent early pregnancies through community awareness and capacity-building of local actors.

2. Promote the adoption of appropriate WASH practices, particularly in schools, and strengthen adolescent girls’ knowledge on menstrual hygiene management.

3. Boost women’s economic participation by facilitating their access to entrepreneurship through the ADRA Fihavanana Collective model, ensuring sustainable income sources and community savings schemes.

4. Strengthen the empowerment of women and girls by engaging them in GBV prevention efforts and supporting their decision-making power within communities.

Within this framework, the project expects to achieve four results:

• Result 1: Access to healthcare is improved for 1,603 adolescent girls, supported by awareness and prevention activities aimed at reducing early pregnancies.

• Result 2: 1,603 adolescent girls adopt improved practices in water, sanitation, hygiene, and menstrual hygiene management, both in schools and in targeted communities.

• Result 3: 120 women gain entrepreneurial opportunities and improve their access to markets and microcredit through the establishment of Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLA). A partnership model with at least one private sector actor—particularly Carrefour Madagascar—is tested and validated in both districts, enabling at least 60 women to formalize their economic activities through fair trade contracts and to promote their products under a local community label (at least one prototype tested and disseminated), as part of the ADRA Fihavanana Collective initiative.

• Result 4: Local CSOs are mobilized for awareness campaigns on GBV prevention, contributing to strengthening the capacities of 3,169 women and 1,603 girls to exercise their decision-making power and influence decisions that affect them in the two districts of Analamanga.