Our Impact.
Creating long-lasting, measurable climate, health, and livelihood benefits for communities across Madagascar.
The urgent need for climate & health solutions.
Madagascar faces acute and interconnected climate, environmental, and public health challenges. The country is highly vulnerable to climate change, with increasingly frequent droughts, floods, and cyclones placing pressure on already fragile ecosystems and infrastructure.
At the same time, many rural communities lack reliable access to safe drinking water and depend on biomass fuels such as wood and charcoal for daily cooking. These conditions contribute to significant health risks — water-borne diseases and respiratory illness from indoor air pollution — while also driving deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions. Addressing these challenges requires solutions that tackle climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and public health simultaneously.
SaniTap's projects respond to this urgent need. By combining climate finance with practical interventions — safe water systems and clean cooking technologies — we deliver measurable emissions reductions while improving health outcomes, protecting natural resources, and strengthening community resilience.
Driving solutions: SaniTap's metrics.
In response to these urgent challenges, SaniTap develops scalable clean cooking, safe water, and nature-based climate projects that deliver high-integrity carbon emissions reductions alongside tangible health, environmental, and livelihood benefits.
The SaniTap–MadAvance model.
In 2023 SaniTap co-founded and funded MadAvance, a Malagasy NGO that supports delivery and long-term management of community water and clean cooking programmes.
Together, the organisations implement projects that restore safe drinking water infrastructure, distribute improved cookstoves, and promote WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene) practices across vulnerable communities. Through this partnership model, SaniTap helps build local capacity and create employment opportunities within Madagascar. MadAvance employs over 80 local staff across field operations, project management, community engagement, and monitoring.
By working through a strong local Malagasy partner, SaniTap ensures projects generate not only environmental impact but also sustainable local employment and skills development within the communities they serve.
Contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals.
SaniTap's clean cooking, safe water, and nature-based solution projects deliver substantial environmental, social, and economic co-benefits — contributing to six UN Sustainable Development Goals.
No Poverty
Zero Hunger
Good Health
Clean Water
Climate Action
Life on Land
By replacing fuel-inefficient and polluting traditional cooking methods, clean cooking projects significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions and biomass fuel consumption. Beyond carbon reductions, improved cookstoves lower indoor air pollution — improving household health outcomes, particularly for women and children. Reduced fuel demand also alleviates pressure on biodiverse local forests while saving households time and money previously spent on fuel collection or purchase.
Restoration of safe drinking water access prevents unnecessary greenhouse gas emissions; reduces waterborne disease and death among vulnerable people, especially children below five; reduces deforestation; and enhances economic development over the long term. Nature-based mitigation projects — bamboo planting, biochar production — sequester carbon while slowing soil erosion, improving soil fertility, and generating meaningful socio-economic opportunities for local communities.
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