Table 1. Characteristics of the conservation and development investments made in Ankeniheny Zahamena Corridor, Madagascar, from 2007 to 2014.
| Type of investment | Description | Number of invest- ments in study area | Total invest-ments (USD)1 |
Median invest- ment per hectare of forest c.2007 (USD) |
Mean invest-ment (USD) |
Standard deviation invest- ment (USD) |
Percent of projects with financial infor- mation | Average project duration (months) |
Standard deviation project duration (months) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Incentives | Payments or non-monetary rewards for the successful implementation of livelihood projects | 144 | 256,305 | 0.62 | 1,913 | 1,586 | 93% | 15 | 14 |
| Direct Implement-ation | Conservation activities funded through the International Development Assistance credits from the World Bank and implemented by Conservation International Madagascar | 74 | 77,391 | 0.76 | 1,060 | 723 | 100% | 9 | 2 |
| Grants | Monetary grants awarded to organized communities (known locally as VOI) [45] with management authority over forests, interested in a variety of conservation activities (i.e. forest restoration, forest management, and training in beekeeping and farming) | 237 | 651,478 | 0.77 | 2,820 | 2,290 | 97% | 13 | 8 |
| Social Safeguard | Payments for sustainable livelihoods to communities potentially experiencing a negative livelihood impact from the establishment of the CAZ protected area were only implemented between January and June of 2014 | 53 | 955,553 | 0.95 | 18,376 | 26,368 | 100% | 7 | 1 |
| Other | A variety of conservation activities (i.e. active patrolling, capacity building for natural resource management) implemented by national Non-Governmental Organizations with funding from the World Bank and USAID | 123 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 0% | 50 | 37 |
| All | 629 | 1,940,727 | 0.77 | 3,961 | 10,033 | 78% | 20 | 24 |
1 Investments are in US dollars (2014)