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Madagascar's Menabe region is ideal for agriculture and livestock farming, making it a popular destination for internally displaced people (IDPs) from the Great South region who are escaping the onset of chronic drought, which has been exacerbated by climate change in recent years. The Bara and Sakalava peoples occupying this part of the island have long acted as host communities for IDPs from the Great South. This displacement has caused multiple problems in recent years, notably, the impact of migrant agricultural practice in the region's protected areas and tensions within the host communities themselves.
In response to this, IOM Madagascar has carried out an SMI (Stability and Mobility Index) assessment with the support of UNDP Madagascar, as part of the ECHO-SAP project on the operationalization of the early warning system (reinforced by previous projects), with a view to finding lasting and durable solutions to the arrival of migrants in the Menabe region.
This report presents the results of the SMI survey conducted in the Menabe region in the west and south-west of Madagascar.