Evah Ralalarisoa, internal control officer, and Lova Rakotonirina, internal control assistant, have carried outmissions in the protected areas over the last quarter. These field visits assess the effectiveness of the use of funds granted. The internal audit manual details the modalities of these missions.
The audit missions are generally structured in 3 parts: control of supporting documents for a convincing justification of expenses and interview with the managers concerning the current management structure in the field, the operational management at the site level as well as the regularity of the human resources status and files, and the capacity building of the financial team.
The visited protected areas respect a predefined rotation program except in exceptional cases. During the last quarter,the following were visited:
- Maromizaha managed by GERP (Eastern Madagascar, Alaotra Mangoro Region): Follow-up of the 2022 funding and inventory of the honey house materials and beekeepers’ equipment and local communities, butalso of the hives equipped;
- Menabe Antimena (South Western Madagascar, Menabe Region): Follow-up of the 2022 funding andEmergency Fund pre-positioned within DURELL in Morondava for emergency interventions against fires in the APMA and follow-up of the Special Intervention Fund (FIS) of Fanamby for interventions by the JointControl Organ (OMC) for the reinforcement of community patrols;
- Montagne des Français managed by SAGE (Northern Madagascar, DIANA Region): Follow-up of the2022 funding and the exceptional support granted to the Montagne des Français protected area;
- Andrafiamena Andavakoera managed by Fanamby(Northern Madagascar, DIANA Region): Follow-up ofthe 2022 funding
- Ambodivahibe managed by Conservation International (Northern Madagascar, DIANA Region): Follow-up of the 2022 funding and Follow-up of the Strengthening Support Fund granted whose main objective is to ensure the implementation of an effective and beneficial management for marine biodiversity and local communities, through additional investigations and the establishment of a
At the end of the year, a risk management map is prepared for all protected area managers supported by FAPBM. This map classifies the risk level of a protected area into three categories: low, moderate and high. As a decision-making tool, it also allows to identify capacity building needs of managers in terms of reporting, compliance with procedure manuals and the provision of supporting documents.
