ABSTRACT
Chapter 8 develops an African case study. Antananarivo, Madagascar’s capital and its political, economic, and cultural center, is home to over 1.3 million inhabitants and growing. At a time when 92 percent of the country’s population lives on less than $2 a day and less than 50 percent have access to clean water, the capital city has proven effective in sustainably increasing water accessibility for its inhabitants. Since 2010, the city of Antananarivo and the state-owned water supplier JIRAMA were able to provide over 700,000 residents of the capital with a reliable and efficient clean water supply, benefiting from the assistance of outside actors such as Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor. Although the functioning of the hub system overall is extremely limited, a few elements of Antananarivo’s capital city hub helped implement change in an otherwise slowly developing country.
