For the last four years, with support from international financial backers and local companies, the Malagasy government has focused on improving its road network, as a means to enhance the country's rapid, sustainable development policy. In this way, work has been done on roughly 6,000 kilometers. In parallel to this increase in road works projects, new requirements in terms of quality, safety and environment on work sites have been set bythe Public Works Minister. Colas, a company that has been operating in Madagascar since 1950, now has the ways and means to meet this challenge. Asa socially-minded company, Colas set up programs on its largest project currently underway in order to limit and prevent the environmental and social impact of its operations by reducing pollution, recycling, optimizing natural resources, reforestation, and using alternative resources such as natural gas. It has also created base camps for workers with running water and electricity along with a free clinic run by a skilled doctor, launching campaigns on sexually-transmitted diseases, infections and malaria. For the covering abstract see ITRD E139491.
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