Madagascar - Bas-Mangoky Irrigation Scheme Rehabilitation and Extension Project

The present intervention aims to relaunch the preparatory activities of the Bas Mangoky Perimeter Rehabilitation and Extension Project (PREBM) approved in 2008 but canceled following the political crisis affecting the country since January 2009. The PPF advance requested by the Malagasy Government will make it possible: (i) to prepare the ODA studies of the irrigation infrastructure, the tracks, the protection dyke and to evaluate the costs of the works and to prepare the files of call for tenders for this work on the basis of the Bank's standard file; (ii) develop an agro-pedological study and a socio-economic study of the perimeter extension zone; (iii) to assess the economic viability of the proposed investments; and (iv) develop an environmental and social impact assessment of the proposed infrastructure.