Improving Local Tax Policy for Water and Sanitation in Madagascar

WaterAid America and its affiliates aim to overcome poverty by enabling the world’s poorest people to gain access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene education.  WaterAid Madagascar and its partners have been supporting community-based improvements in water and sanitation, including construction of wells, standpipes and latrines.  The objective of the workshop was to analyze and make concrete recommendations for improvements in the local tax schemes in Madagascar in order to support universal access to potable water and sanitation.   The team reviewed the current tax systems in two communes and made recommendations to increase tax recovery.