Solar United Madagascar (SUM) is a pioneering consortium dedicated to improving community resilience through the power of the sun. Using the expertise and reach of each partner we developed innovative ways of providing access to household and community solar energy services across Madagascar.
Initiated in 2022, the partnership was made possible through the visionary support and initiative of the Aeonian Foundation, who selected the partners based on their credentials and expertise, and brought them together in a pilot project.
Following the initial pilot and recognizing the scale of the challenge, partners quickly realised the huge impact that working together could bring about. Since then, the five founding partners and their local implementing partners have been learning, innovating, and growing impact and reach delivering renewable energy solutions to underserved communities.
Together, the consortium combines deep local knowledge with technical expertise, ensuring that solar technology is deployed effectively, sustainably, and in alignment with community priorities.
This unique blend of grassroots engagement and industry leadership is the backbone of SUM’s approach.
A Madagascar where communities thrive and live sustainably.
We support Madagascar's most underserved communities. By making the power of renewable energy accessible, we address immediate needs like education, health and livelihoods leaving no one behind and contributing to long-term environmental resilience.
Our commitment is to the communities we serve. We listen and we are responding to the realities of people’s lives, supporting agency and meeting needs in the most impactful and enduring way.
Together, we create stronger initiatives that amplify the impact. We bring together diverse expertise and resources seeking balance and equity in all we do.
Trust is our foundation. It opens doors to collaboration, where every voice is valued and every contribution takes us further. In all we do, we act with honesty, transparency, and integrity.
We explore innovative and ambitious ways for people to live a life beyond poverty, reaching deeply into communities across Madagascar to leave no one behind.
Our dedication is to the welfare and progress of communities with a focus on long term, holistic and sustainable development placing human wellbeing and quality of life at the heart of what we do.
We strive to create models of development that are scalable, reduce poverty, enhance resilience across the poorest communities, stabilise the unique environments and address impacts of climate change.
Founded in 1995, Feedback Madagascar (FBM) works in some of the most remote parts of south-east Madagascar, supporting 500,000 people across more than 540 partner communities as together we improve lives and safeguard 200,000 hectares of precious rainforest. Our vision is a thriving Madagascar where people and nature flourish together. We work towards this vision through a holistic, participatory, feedback-informed, long-term approach across clean water, education, livelihoods, health, human rights, and environmental conservation and regeneration.
For 25 years, SEED Madagascar has been working hand in hand with communities in southeast Madagascar to help build a thriving, healthy, and sustainable future. Through locally driven initiatives in Community Health, Education Infrastructure, Rural Livelihoods, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), and Environmental Conservation, we build community capacity, improve human development outcomes, and conserve fragile ecosystems and biodiversity. Our work also mitigates the impacts of climate change and strengthens resilience to future shocks. Beyond our local impact, we share learning nationally and internationally and engage in advocacy across Madagascar to drive lasting, meaningful change.
Money for Madagascar (MfM) works to ensure that all communities in Madagascar live in dignity, free from poverty and in harmony with nature. We invest in Malagasy solutions to Malagasy challenges: local solutions designed and led by Malagasy people to reduce poverty and protect the environment. Our three programmes; Education for Life, Children for the Future and Resilient Forests and Livelihoods, strengthen communities' education and economic and environmental resilience. MFM isa Malagasy-led organisation, founded in Britain in 1986. We received our Madagascar headquarters agreement in January 2024.
SolarAid is an international charity founded in 2006, working across sub-Saharan Africa to expand access to clean, safe solar power. Through our social enterprises, SunnyMoney Malawi and SunnyMoney Zambia, we support families and communities living without electricity to access simple solar solutions that create instant, everyday change. A single light helps children study after dark, farmers sort crops in the evening, and midwives care for mothers safely through the night. Our work focuses on last-mile distribution, local enterprise, and energy services that reach places others often don’t. Our mission is simple: make light work for everyone.
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Jiro-Ve is a social enterprise based in Madagascar, founded in 2014 with the mission of making renewable energy accessible to everyone. To achieve this, we have built a network of over 160 local entrepreneurs who rent out more than 20,000 solar kits across the country every day. In addition to our solar rental services, we also promote clean cooking solutions and provide electrification for community buildings in underserved rural areas, such as schools (that we also digitized), health centers and youth facilities.
