Madagascar: roads and markets built under PACFC
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Lexpress
Between 2019 and 2025, investments in southern Madagascar funded paved roads, markets and agricultural equipment. An assessment of the first phase of PACFC also records support for SMEs, while the concrete economic benefits remain to be measured, L’Express de Madagascar reported.
The first phase of the Economic Competitiveness Support Programme (PACFC) paved 210 kilometres of roads in southern Madagascar and supported small and medium-sized enterprises. Completed in 2025, it also funded markets and agricultural equipment, according to the programme’s assessment reported by L’Express.
The works covered 165 kilometres of the RN9 and 45 kilometres of the RNT12A. Eight bridges were also built: three on the RN9 and five on the RNT12A. The programme estimates that 3.5 million people, 41% of them women, have benefited from improved access to markets. Reduced journey times and easier transport of goods are among the expected benefits.
The investments were made between 2019 and 2025 to facilitate trade and support agricultural activities. However, the figures on infrastructure alone are not enough to establish the concrete economic effects, which remain to be assessed.
This phase comes as Madagascar seeks to accelerate its funded infrastructure projects, as outlined in the plan to accelerate funded projects, published on 19 October 2026.
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