On June, 4th, 2021, FAPBM warmly welcomes a new Executive Board and two new members inside its Board of Trustees [1]. The newly elected members of the Executive Board are:
- Ny Anitry Ny Aina (Nanie) RATSIFANDRIHAMANANA, as President of the Board
- Ratafika DIMBINDRAIBE, as Vice-President of the Board
- Fredy RAJAONERA ANDRIAMBELO, as Treasurer.
The incoming members of the Board of Trustees, co-opted for a renewable 4-year term, are:
- Bruno Tsing Yat RAJASPERA[2], Director of Community Resource Support of Conservation International – Madagascar;
- Fredy RAJAONERA ANDRIAMBELO[2], Deputy Director-General of Chocolaterie Robert.
In accordance with the governance rules of FAPBM, this series of co-optations took place following the end-of-term of two trustees, namely Sahondra RAJOELINA, former President, and Naritiana RAKOTONIAINA. After 2 years at the Presidency of the Board of Trustees, the outgoing President, and Country Director of Conservation International – Madagascar, recalled, with emotion during the handover ceremony, the values that have stimulated her term: optimism, passion, willingness. Under her presidency, FAPBM has increased its capital and supported protected areas, which have increased from 31 to 36. Major reforms have been initiated, such as the implementation of an environmental and social safeguard framework. All those have put FAPBM in a strong position to continue to fulfill its missions.
The new President of the Board Nanie Ratsifandrihamanana, also Country Director of WWF Madagascar, reaffirm her willingness to pursue the undertaken works to strengthen, through the FAPBM, the sustainable financing of the System of Protected Areas of Madagascar. She stressed the need to work together with the all the key actors to succeed in the challenges of conservation. The strong experience and the multiples skills of FAPBM’s collaborators, she said, are mobilized to support the preservation of the biodiversity and the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development, the prime of this natural capital. Thus, accompanied by the Executive Board and the Executive Director (Mr. Alain Liva Raharijaona), she had a meeting with Mrs. Baomiavotse Vahinala Raharinirina, Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development and executives of the Ministry on June 25th, 2021.
About the FAPBM
Created in 2005, FAPBM is a private Malagasy trust fund dedicated to the conservation of Madagascar’s biodiversity. Its mission is to support biodiversity conservation by promoting and financing the expansion, creation, protection and improvement of the System of Protected Areas of Madagascar. Each investment in the Foundation‘s capital generates perpetual annual income, dedicated primarily to conservation, administrative management and community development activities inside protected areas.
The Foundation is internationally recognised for its expertise in protected areas funding, its transparency, its good governance of funds and the relevance of its interventions and its sustainable impacts. Conservation International, WWF, the World Bank, the French Government through AFD, the French Fund for the Environment and the German Government through KfW have all placed their trust in the Foundation by contributing to its capital.
To support the Foundation: www.fapbm.org
[1] Appendix 1 : Photo and list of current and outgoing Board members
[2] Appendix 2 : Biographies of incoming members of the Board
[3] Appendix 3 : Meeting with Mrs. Baomiavotse Vahinala Raharinirina, Minister of the Environment and Sustainable Development and Ministry’s Executives
APPENDIX 1: Former and new members of the Board of Trustees at the handover ceremony on June 4th, 2021
From left to right:
Ratafika DIMBINDRAIBE, Special Advisor to the Prime Minister in charge of Environmental and Social/Health
Hary Tiana RAHAINGOALISON, Agronomist, specialist in coordination and follow-up of international projects in Madagascar
Hanta Zo RAKOTOVAO, Head of the Legal and Regulatory Department at Orange Madagascar
Freddy RAJAONERA ANDRIAMBELO (incoming member), Deputy General Director of Chocolaterie Robert
Eric RAKOTO-ANDRIATSILAVO, Executive Secretary of the Integrated Growth Poles Project (IGP) of the World Bank
Naritiana RAKOTONIAINA (outgoing member), Executive Director of the NGO Environmental Management Support Service (SAGE)
Nanie RATSIFANDRIHAMANANA, (new President), Country Director of WWF – Madagascar
Sahondra RAJOELINA (outgoing member), Country Director, Conservation International – Madagascar
Bruno Tsing Yat RAJASPERA (incoming member), Director of Community Resource Support for Conservation International – Madagascar
Mamitiana ANDRIAMANJATO, Executive of the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development, former Director of Sustainable Financing, specialist in climate change and REDD+.
James RANAIVOSON (based in Luxemburg, not in the picture), Former Management Advisor of the European Investment Bank
APPENDIX 2: Biographies of incoming members of the Board of Trustees
Bruno Tsing Yat RAJASPERA
Currently Director of Community Resource Support at Conservation International – Madagascar, Bruno Tsing Yat RAJASPERA provides strategic and cross-cutting support to Conservation International Madagascar’s program to develop the landscape management approach and lead the biodiversity offset project funded by the mining company Ambatovy. He has a long history as a coordinator of large-scale environmental projects for USAID and DELL Corporation.
He has developed expertise in community development for conservation and has written several publications on the subject, most recently: “Developing a resilient co-management arrangement for protected areas: field experience of the Ankeniheny-Zahamena corridor in Madagascar” for Madagascar, Human Dimensions of Wildlife.
Bruno Tsing Yat RAJASPERA holds an engineering degree in agronomy from the Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Agronomiques of the University of Antananarivo.
Fredy RAJAONERA ANDRIAMBELO
Fredy RAJAONERA ANDRIAMBELO currently holds positions of high responsibility in several companies: Deputy General Director of Chocolaterie Robert, manager of the general agency Ramanandraibe of the insurance company ARO, and director of the agricultural and real estate management company Zafitsara S.A. Committed to entrepreneurship, and a former President of the Syndicat des Industries de Madagascar, he is the Chairman of the Board of Miarakap Investments, which supports companies projects with social impact.
He is one of the founders of the Initiative for Development, Ecological Restoration and Innovation or INDRI.
Fredy RAJAONERA ANDRIAMBELO is an alumnus of the Institut des Hautes Études Internationales of the University of Paris I.
APPENDIX 3: Meeting with Mrs. Baomiavotse Vahinala Raharinirina, Minister of the Environment and Sustainable Development and Ministry’s Executives
