IU Effort Named Top 100 Proposal by MacArthur Foundation
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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowA project from Indiana University to decrease pollution in Madagascar is getting major recognition. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has accepted the effort into the Top 100 of its 100&Change competition for a $100 million grant.
According to officials, IU is co-leading the project with Pure Earth and the University of Birmingham, UK, working with a multidisciplinary environmental consortium and project partners in Madagascar.
The proposal aims to continue and improve Madagascar’s Health and Pollution Action Plan. The plan is the first of its kind to be drafted by any country and aims to address the Madagascar’s deadly pollution problem.
The project can also be replicated in more than 10 other countries that have initiated Health and Pollution Action Plans.
“Madagascar’s willingness to lead the world in tackling the pollution health crisis has attracted the interest of top environmental scientists and pollution prevention experts,” said project lead Joseph Shaw, an associate professor at the O’Neill School of Environmental and Public Affairs at Indiana University. “This initiative is bringing together many of the most accomplished leaders in understanding and improving the quality of air, soil, and water. Most importantly, we are committed to ensuring the plan can be implemented in a way that meets the needs and reflects the priorities of the Malagasy people, and that these strategies can be sustained and adapted over the long term.”
Each proposal was analyzed to determine impact, evidence-based movement, feasibility, and durability through MacArthur’s administrative review, a peer-to-peer review, an evaluation by an external panel of judges, and a technical review by specialists.
MacArthur’s Board of Directors will select up to 10 finalists from the high-scoring proposals this spring.