The European Union is a strategic partner of the Ministry of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (MEAH) in the implementation of structuring projects aimed at improving sustainable access to drinking water, strengthening the governance of the sector and supporting the improvement of public services.
Emergency works as part of the implementation of the Jirama Water III project which aims to improve access to drinking water in Greater Antananarivo should start soon. This is what we can understand from the exchanges held during the meeting between Dr. Razafindrianiaina Minosoa Anjaratiana Elia, Minister of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, and His Excellency Roland Kobia, Ambassador of the European Union to Madagascar on November 13, 2025. A meeting of capital importance in terms of improving access to drinking water, hygiene and sanitation during which the two parties reaffirmed the importance of four projects that they jointly support in the country. Among others, JIRAMA Water III which aims to improve access to drinking water in Greater Antananarivo, the Toamasina Integrated Sanitation Program as well as the Institutional Strengthening and Governance component.
Near future
For Jirama Water III (with funding of 73.3 million euros and which should benefit 800,000 people) these emergency works which are ready to start, correspond to the construction of a new water treatment station with a capacity of 50,000 m3/day in Amoronakona as well as a new 1500 m3 reservoir in Ambohibe. The project also includes the supply and installation of treated water transfer pipes in DN 600 and 400 mm over 23.1km. These pipes and transfer supplies should make it possible to connect the new treatment station at Amoronakona to the existing Iavoloha reservoirs, the new Ambohibe reservoir and the Analamahitsy reservoirs. If the second phase of the Antananarivo Integrated Sanitation Program, for which preparatory work is underway, reinforces Jirama Water III, in Toamasina, the feasibility studies of the Water and Sanitation Project are progressing. In these structuring projects with strong impacts for the Malagasy populations, the European Union actively supports Madagascar while reaffirming its “ availability to continue and strengthen its support to the Government. »
José Belalahy