The Environmental Health Project implemented a four-year program in Madagascar linking and integrating activities among projects in health, population, and environment (natural resource management). The central hypothesis of this activity is that integrating natural resource management with population and health will make these projects more effective and sustainable. EHP’s support was concentrated in biologically diverse ecosystems in two of Madagascar's priority conservation zones, Moramanga and Fianarantsoa. Funding was provided by the U.S. Agency for International Development Global Bureau’s Population, Health, and Nutrition Center. EHP played four principal roles:
1. To support monitoring, evaluation, and operations research activities, including the development and testing of new indicators and data collection instruments to measure integration;
2. To improve management of integrated approaches at the grassroots level;
3. To ensure national-level coordination of activities; and
4. To disseminate lessons learned.