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Capability agenda

Madagascar

Generated 2026-10-03

The frame includes 125 countries. Each dimension is scored from 0 to 100, with no overall ranking, and each score shows its confidence beside it. Read the known limits of the data before you quote a score.

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Where Madagascar stands

DimensionScoreConfidenceTrend
Anticipation17.00.46+15.6 over 10 years using 2 indicators
Agency56.00.41no trend
Coordination52.60.41no trend
Trust47.20.28no trend
Learning21.90.52no trend
Experimentation2.10.33+0.5 over 10 years using 3 indicators
Adaptability43.80.48no trend
Building9.70.57+2.8 over 10 years using 3 indicators
Shared Purpose46.40.28+10.7 over 10 years using 2 indicators

Score

  • weakNear the floor of the frame. Check the confidence before reading anything into it.0 to 25
  • below middleIn the lower half of the frame.25 to 50
  • above middleIn the upper half of the frame.50 to 75
  • strongNear the top of the frame on this dimension.75 and above

Confidence

  • very thin0.00 to 0.25

    The score rests on one or two indicators. Do not quote it on its own.

  • thin0.25 to 0.45

    A minority of indicators, or evidence old enough to have moved. Read with care.

  • usable0.45 to 0.65

    Enough evidence to compare countries, with known holes.

  • good0.65 and above

    Most indicators observed, recent, from official or intergovernmental sources.

Capability over time

Select a dimension to see how Madagascarโ€™s comparable evidence has moved over time. The vertical scale is the current comparison frame, from 0 to 100.

Dimension

Period

Capability position in the current frame0 to 100
02550751001996200120062011201620212026

Experimentation 1996 โ†’ 2026: 2.2 to 2.2 (0) over 30 years using 2 indicators

Historical values use todayโ€™s frame from 0 to 100 and a matched basket of indicators. They show movement in the available evidence, not an overall development score. Dated agenda items appear on a separate timeline and do not change the score. A missing line means the evidence does not support a comparable trend for that dimension.

What to raise

These are the lowest scores with usable evidence. Thin evidence appears below.

Building

9.70.57

How capable is the country of turning plans and knowledge into functioning systems?

Uses 4 observed indicators. +2.8 over 10 years using 3 indicators.

Highest usable scores: South Korea 85.1, Ireland 80.3, China 77.4.

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AFE passenger rail and network contraction (Uruguay); Flamanville 3 EPR, and the erosion of nuclear new-build delivery (France); Phoenix pay system, and its prolonged failure (Canada); Groningen gas system, and its closure after induced earthquakes (Netherlands); DigiD, a shared digital identity rail for public services (Netherlands); Delta Works, a 43-year national flood-defence programme (Netherlands); Betuweroute, a freight railway that missed its operating promise (Netherlands); MijnOverheid, a shared citizen mailbox and data portal (Netherlands); Fyra V250, a high-speed service withdrawn after a failed launch (Netherlands); OVpay, nationwide contactless transit payments (Netherlands); Omgevingswet and the Digital Environment System (Netherlands); Transantiago, an integrated transport reform with rising subsidy dependence (Chile); 4G road concessions, a national infrastructure portfolio (Colombia); Reficar, a refinery modernization with a fiscal-liability finding (Colombia); GIGA School, one learning device per student (Japan); Monju, a fast-breeder programme ended before commercial operation (Japan); Invierte.pe, a national multi-year investment-management system (Peru); Reconstrucciรณn con Cambios, a delayed recovery portfolio (Peru); ICE and a mostly renewable national electricity system (Costa Rica); CCSS universal health-insurance reach (Costa Rica); Metro de Quito, a cross-administration urban rail delivery (Ecuador); Panama Canal expansion and self-financing operations (Panama); Metro de Panamรก network operations (Panama); Mi Telefรฉrico urban cable-car network (Bolivia); Industrial lithium carbonate plant below design capacity (Bolivia); Itaipรบ binational hydropower operations (Paraguay); Metrobรบs, an unfinished bus rapid transit project (Paraguay); ARSAT-3 satellite programme suspended before launch (Argentina); DPWH national infrastructure delivery and transparency portal (Philippines); Bataan Nuclear Power Plant, a mothballed megaproject (Philippines); Trans-Sumatra toll-road programme, still short of its planned network (Indonesia); National expressway build-out in 2024 (Vietnam); Cat Linhโ€“Ha Dong metro, a delayed and over-budget delivery (Vietnam); MRT Putrajaya Line (Malaysia); Kuala Lumpurโ€“Singapore high-speed rail, terminated before construction (Malaysia); Hopewell elevated road-and-rail concession, and its termination (Thailand); AVE high-speed rail network (Spain); Castor underground gas storage, and its closure (Spain); Ostroล‚ฤ™ka C coal block, and its abandonment (Poland); Nya Karolinska Solna publicโ€“private hospital project (Sweden); Barsebรคck nuclear plant closure and decommissioning (Sweden); New Children's Hospital cost escalation (Ireland); Rural electrification and near-universal grid coverage (Nicaragua); Gran Misiรณn Vivienda Venezuela's five-million-home milestone (Venezuela); Plano de Recuperaรงรฃo e Resiliรชncia delivery governance (Portugal); Lisbonโ€“Madrid high-speed rail concession, formally abandoned (Portugal); Delhi Commonwealth Games, and the cost-estimate escalation (India); MeerKAT radio telescope, a delivered national research facility (South Africa); CFE Telecomunicaciones e Internet para Todos (Mexico); New International Airport of Mexico, and its cancellation (Mexico); Marmaray, the Bosphorus rail crossing (Turkey); FATฤฐH education technology infrastructure (Turkey); YEKA RES-1 renewable tender, and its cancellation (Turkey); Gotthard Base Tunnel (Switzerland); Standard Gauge Railway, Mombasa to Naivasha (Kenya); Canadian long-gun registry, its information system overrun and its dismantling (Canada); Tel Aviv light rail Red Line (Israel); National high-speed rail network (China); Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant (United Arab Emirates); Aeropuerto Internacional de Palmerola (Honduras); El Chaparral (3 de Febrero) hydroelectric plant (El Salvador); Programa Ampliado de Inmunizaciones, and its erosion (Venezuela); PetroCaribe-financed public investment programme, and its audited failure (Haiti); Interstate Highway System (United States); Programa Nacional de la Vivienda, and its collapse (Cuba); Punta Catalina thermoelectric plant, and its cost overrun (Dominican Republic); Grand Paris Express (France); Modjo-Hawassa expressway, World Bank-financed Lot 3 (Ethiopia); Lรญnea Rivera rail rehabilitation, and its decay (Uruguay); Gyeongbu high-speed railway (KTX), and its cost and schedule overrun (South Korea); Gasoducto Sur Peruano, a terminated pipeline concession (Peru); Talara refinery modernisation, delivered late and over cost (Peru); Program 35.000 MW power generation programme, and its schedule slip (Indonesia); El Mutรบn steel complex, inaugurated in 2025 and found never to have operated (Bolivia); Quang Trach to Pho Noi 500kV circuit-3 transmission line (Vietnam); Coca Codo Sinclair hydroelectric plant (Ecuador); Puente Hรฉroes del Chaco, Asunciรณn to Chaco'i bridge (Paraguay); Floating LNG import terminals of 2022 (Germany); Atucha II nuclear plant, and its 33-year build (Argentina); Vistula Spit shipping canal (Przekop Mierzei Wiล›lanej) (Poland); Israel Railways electrification and the Jerusalem express line, and their delays (Israel); Samuel De Champlain Bridge corridor (Canada); Hokuriku Shinkansen Kanazawa to Tsuruga extension, and its overrun (Japan); Botniabanan coastal railway (Sweden); High Speed Two, and the cancellation of Phase 2 (United Kingdom); Crossrail, the Elizabeth line (United Kingdom); Dedicated Freight Corridors, Eastern and Western (India); Olmeca refinery at Dos Bocas (Mexico); Inland Rail, and its consolidation at Parkes (Australia); Kehรคrata airport rail loop, and its cost overrun (Finland); Chixoy hydroelectric project, and its cost and time overrun (Guatemala); Abuja-Kaduna-Zaria-Kano dual carriageway, and the termination of its 2017 contract (Nigeria); Neelum-Jhelum Hydropower Project, and its shutdown (Pakistan); Tarbela Fourth Extension Hydropower Project (Pakistan); MOSE, the Venice lagoon flood barrier (Italy); Padma Multipurpose Bridge (Bangladesh); Noor-Ouarzazate solar complex (Morocco); Pap-Angren railway and Kamchik tunnel (Uzbekistan); Pro-Routes high-priority road reopening and maintenance (Democratic Republic of the Congo); Karuma Hydropower Project (Uganda); Julius Nyerere Hydropower Project (Tanzania); A1 motorway, Bucharest to Nadlac (Romania); South-West Roads: Western Europe-Western China corridor (CAREC 1b and 6b) (Kazakhstan); Reseau Ferroviaire Rapide de Tunis, lines D and E, and its overruns (Tunisia); Southern Expressway (Southern Transport Development Project) (Sri Lanka); Melamchi Water Supply Project, and its erosion after the 2021 flood (Nepal); Harare-Masvingo-Beitbridge highway rehabilitation, behind schedule (Zimbabwe); Solar powered milling plants contract, and its erosion (Zambia); Urban Water Supply Project (PEMU), part of the Kabala programme for Bamako (Mali); Ouagadougou Water Supply Project (Ziga) (Burkina Faso); Jiji and Mulembwe hydropower project (Burundi); Energy Sector Support Project (substations and distribution lines) (Malawi); Morupule B coal power station, and its underperformance (Botswana); Metolong Dam and Water Supply Programme (Lesotho); B6 Belle Rive to Quartier Militaire road upgrade (Mauritius); Rahad Irrigation Project, and its cost and time overrun (Sudan); Accra bus rapid transit under the Ghana Urban Transport Project, and its cancellation (Ghana); Yabayo-Gagnoa road under the Fourth Highway Project, and its cost and time overrun (Cรดte d'Ivoire); Fourth Highway Project: paving of the Mamou-Kankan and Dubreka-Kolaboui roads (Guinea); Realignment of the Congo-Ocean Railway through the Mayombe, and its overruns (Republic of the Congo); Banjul Rehabilitation Project (roads, drainage and sewage), and its delay (Gambia); Bissau Port Project, delivered two and a half years late (Guinea-Bissau); ล oลกtanj thermal power plant unit 6 (TEล  6), and its cost overrun (Slovenia); Rail Baltica in Latvia, and its cost and schedule overrun (Latvia); Koralmbahn Graz to Klagenfurt, opened seven years after its contracted completion date (Austria); Fehmarn Belt fixed link, and its cost and schedule overrun (Denmark); Motorway construction by the Road and Motorway Directorate, and its unit cost (Czechia); Peljeลกac Bridge, the first stage of the road connection to South Dalmatia (Croatia); Decommissioning of the Bohunice V1 nuclear power plant, and its four-year slip (Slovakia); Decommissioning of the Ignalina nuclear power plant, and its delays (Lithuania); Corridor X motorway sections (E-75 and E-80) (Serbia); Road Sector Development Project on the M-03 and M-12, and its cut scope (Ukraine); M6 Minsk to Grodno transit corridor upgrade (Belarus); Federation Road Sector Modernization Project, and its shrunken rehabilitation scope (Bosnia and Herzegovina); Local Roads Improvement Project, and its halved scope (Moldova); Regional and Local Roads Connectivity Project (Albania); Kicevo to Ohrid motorway, and its cost and time overrun (North Macedonia); Budapest metro line 4, first section, and its cost and time overrun (Hungary); Road Infrastructure Rehabilitation Project, and its cut after the 2009 budget squeeze (Bulgaria); Ain Sokhna supercritical power plant (Egypt); Hartha power station units 2 and 3 rehabilitation, and its halt (Iraq); Greater Beirut Water Supply Project (Awali to Beirut conveyor), and its unfinished delivery (Lebanon); Amman Development Corridor (Amman Ring Road phase 1), and its overrun (Jordan); East-West Highway Corridor Improvement Project (Rikoti Pass sections) (Georgia); North-South Road Corridor Investment Program, Tranche 1 (Armenia); Second National Water Supply and Sanitation Project (rayon centres), and its downsizing (Azerbaijan); National Road Rehabilitation (Osh-Batken-Isfana) Project (Kyrgyzstan); Tehran Sewerage Project (first phase: interceptors, trunk main and southern treatment plant) (Iran); Central Ring Road around Moscow (TsKAD), audited by the Accounts Chamber (Russia); Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Project (Papua New Guinea); Road No. 13 South upgrading under the Third Highway Improvement Project (Laos); Second Energy Sector Project, distribution rehabilitation and the 10 MWp western solar plant (Mongolia); City Rail Link, Auckland, and its cost and time overrun (New Zealand); Rogun hydropower plant (Tajikistan); Kvalitetsfonden hospital building programme (supersygehuse), and its overruns (Denmark); Modernizace dรกlnice D1 (D1 motorway modernisation, Miroลกovice to Kรฝvalka) (Czechia); Lae Port Development Project (Lae Tidal Basin, phase 1) (Papua New Guinea); Second-wave motorway concessions (Central E-65, Olympia Odos, Moreas), and their reset (Greece); Third Highway Project: M4 Baku-Shamakhi and M3 Yenikend-Shorsulu motorways (Azerbaijan); Belene nuclear power plant, and its cancellation (Bulgaria); Belarusian nuclear power plant (BelAES), delivered behind schedule (Belarus); Bishkek-Osh road rehabilitation, third phase (Kyrgyzstan).

Missing indicators: Large project delivery, Firm scale-up rate.

Rejected datasets: Logistics infrastructure quality.

Anticipation

17.00.46

How capable is the country of identifying and preparing for emerging change?

Uses 2 observed indicators. +15.6 over 10 years using 2 indicators.

Highest usable scores: Denmark 98.1, Norway 97.2, Switzerland 93.4.

Related deliveries in other countries: Embrapa, a fifty-year bet on tropical agriculture (Brazil); The Delta Programme and its fund (Netherlands); Lei de Informรกtica, a sectoral industrial policy (Brazil); CGEE, the strategic studies center (Brazil); Centre for Strategic Futures, foresight inside government (Singapore); Legally binding carbon budgets (United Kingdom); Fukushima decommissioning roadmap, a 30โ€“40-year risk-reduction horizon (Japan); National basic-research funding allocation (China); PLANAPP and REPLAN, a centre-of-government foresight network (Portugal); Labour Market Intelligence Programme and forward skills planning (South Africa); Government Report on the Future and the parliamentary Committee for the Future (Finland); Foresight Centre at the Riigikogu (Arenguseire Keskus) (Estonia); Office of Technology Assessment, defunded and closed in 1995 (United States); Rzฤ…dowe Centrum Studiรณw Strategicznych, liquidated in 2006 (Poland); Office of Technology Assessment at the German Bundestag (TAB) (Germany); National Assembly Futures Institute (South Korea); Federal Chancellery situation and environment analysis (Perspektivstab) (Switzerland); Senate foresight delegation (Dรฉlรฉgation sรฉnatoriale ร  la prospective) (France); Senate Commission on Future Challenges, Science, Technology and Innovation (Chile); Policy Horizons Canada, the federal foresight unit, and its 2024 disruption scan (Canada); Framtidskommissionen, the Prime Minister's time-limited future commission (Sweden); National Planning Commission foresight work for Malawi 2063 (Malawi); Bureau National de la Prospective et de la Veille Stratรฉgique and the national prospective studies (Cรดte d'Ivoire); Teknologiraadet, the Norwegian Board of Technology (Norway); Teknologiraadet, the Danish Board of Technology, abolished in 2012 (Denmark); Bureau federal du Plan (Belgium); Special Secretariat of Foresight (now of Long-term Planning) (Greece); STRATA foresight for the Lietuva 2050 state progress strategy (Lithuania); Institut Royal des Etudes Stratรฉgiques (IRES) (Morocco); Long-term Insights Briefings under the Public Service Act 2020 (New Zealand).

Missing indicators: Government foresight capacity, Long-horizon research commitments.

Learning

21.90.52

How effectively does the country acquire, distribute, and update knowledge?

Uses 3 observed indicators. no trend.

Highest usable scores: Singapore 84.2, Norway 83.4, New Zealand 83.

Related deliveries in other countries: SkillsFuture Credit (Singapore); The public library system (Finland); Kartu Prakerja, a national lifelong-learning delivery system (Indonesia); Compte personnel de formation (France); Programa Qualifica and Portugal's adult-learning network (Portugal); Novas Oportunidades, and the qualification-policy interruption (Portugal); SWAYAM national online-course platform (India); SETAs and workplace-based learning delivery (South Africa); MEB public lifelong-learning network (Turkey); Kenya's adult education centres, and their halving (Kenya); Rwanda's adult literacy centres, and their decline (Rwanda); Integrated Functional Adult Education, and its erosion (Ethiopia); Instituto Tรฉcnico de Capacitaciรณn y Productividad (INTECAP) (Guatemala); INFOTEP national technical and vocational training (Dominican Republic); Campaรฑa Nacional de Alfabetizaciรณn (Cuba); VET FEE-HELP, and its abolition (Australia); Adult education allowance (aikuiskoulutustuki), and its abolition (Finland); INEFOP, the tripartite national training institute (Uruguay); Franquicia Tributaria SENCE, and its erosion (Chile); Employer and in-work training under Employment Insurance, and its erosion (South Korea); TESDA technical-vocational training at national scale (Philippines); INADEH national vocational training (Panama); Yo, sรญ puedo national literacy campaign and post-literacy programme (Bolivia); Project 1956 vocational training for rural workers (Vietnam); Bildungsprรคmie training voucher, and its end (Germany); Aufstiegs-BAfรถG, upgrading training support (Germany); Formaciรณn programada por las empresas (FUNDAE training credit) (Spain); Community Education and Training colleges, and their erosion (South Africa); SENA complementary training (formaciรณn complementaria) (Colombia); Vocational skills upgrading action, 2019-2021 (China); INA national vocational training, and its contraction (Costa Rica); Kunskapslyftet adult education initiative (Sweden); Springboard+ upskilling programme (Ireland); State-administered adult education under the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act, and its erosion (United States); STAP-budget training grant, abolished in 2024 (Netherlands); INEA adult basic education (Mexico); Hello Training, public vocational training (Japan); Educaรงรฃo de Jovens e Adultos (EJA), and its erosion (Brazil); Government-funded adult further education in England, and its erosion (United Kingdom); Educaciรณn Bรกsica Alternativa (EBA), and its erosion (Peru); Upper secondary education for adults in non-stationary study (Estonia); Department of Skill Development skill-upgrading training (Thailand); Adult literacy education under the National Commission for Mass Literacy, Adult and Non-Formal Education (Nigeria); Skills Development under the Labour Market Development Agreements, and its 2024-25 funding cut (Canada); Instituto Nacional de Formaciรณn Profesional (INFOP) (Honduras); Ministry of Labour Vocational Training Division adult courses (Israel); Educaciรณn Permanente para personas jรณvenes y adultas (MEC) (Paraguay); National literacy campaigns, 2010-2015 (Haiti); County and city general secondary schools for adults (licea ogรณlnoksztaล‚cฤ…ce dla dorosล‚ych) (Poland); Kolej Komuniti part-time and lifelong-learning (Pembelajaran Sepanjang Hayat) courses (Malaysia); Fondo nuove competenze (Italy); National adult literacy projects of the Bureau of Non-Formal Education, and their erosion (Bangladesh); Functional Adult Literacy programme, and its decline (Uganda); Integrated Community-Based Adult Education (MEMKWA), and its decline (Tanzania); National Functional Literacy Programme, and its erosion (Ghana); Centres d'alphabรฉtisation, and their erosion (Cรดte d'Ivoire); Adult literacy centres financed through FONAENF, and their erosion (Burkina Faso); National Adult Literacy Programme (Malawi); Mauritius Institute of Training and Development part-time training (Mauritius); NAMCOL secondary education programme for out-of-school learners (Namibia); Alfabetizaรงรฃo e Educaรงรฃo de Adultos (public adult literacy and adult primary education), and its decline (Mozambique); Sistema Nacional de Formaรงรฃo Profissional under INEFOP (Angola); Institut National de Prรฉparation Professionnelle (INPP) (Democratic Republic of the Congo); AMS training measures (Schulungen) for jobseekers (Austria); Human Resource Development Authority (HRDA) subsidised training programmes (Cyprus); Arbejdsmarkedsuddannelser (AMU), adult vocational training courses, and their decline (Denmark); Vauฤeri za obrazovanje, training vouchers of the Croatian Employment Service (Croatia); Mฤcฤซbas pieauguลกajiem, the ESF training programme for employed adults 2017 to 2023 (Latvia); Grunnskoleopplรฆring for voksne, municipal primary and lower secondary education for adults (Norway); Zruฤnosti pre trh prรกce, retraining and training contributions of the labour offices (Slovakia); Upper secondary education for adults (srednjeลกolsko izobraลพevanje odraslih) (Slovenia); Public vocational training centres of the National Agency for Employment and Skills (Albania); Employment Agency adult training, including the DI-GI digital skills vouchers (Bulgaria); ANOFM voucher-based vocational training for the unemployed (Moldova); ANOFM national vocational training plan, and its fall after 2023 (Romania); National Employment Service labour market training, and its 2025 non-delivery (Serbia); Programme national d'enseignement des adultes (national adult education programme) (Tunisia); Agence Nationale de Lutte contre l'Analphabetisme literacy and post-literacy programmes (Morocco); Federal project Sodeystvie zanyatosti (Employment Promotion) vocational training of adults (Russia); Short-term vocational training of the unemployed in monocentres and district vocational training centres (Uzbekistan); Self-Employment Program business training (Azerbaijan); HEART/NSTA Trust training enrolment (Jamaica); Enhanced Vocational Education and Training (EVENT II) short-term training (Nepal); Adult and community education at tertiary providers, and its halving (New Zealand); NCHD Adult Literacy Programme, and its collapse after 2013 (Pakistan); Youth Training and Employment Partnership Programme (YTEPP), and its shrinking enrolment (Trinidad and Tobago); Bildungskarenz with Weiterbildungsgeld, and its abolition (Austria).

Missing indicators: Adult learning participation.

Adaptability

43.80.48

How effectively can the system respond when circumstances change?

Uses 4 observed indicators. no trend.

Highest usable scores: Poland 89.5, Vietnam 88.1, Thailand 87.6.

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Renta Dignidad non-contributory old-age pension (Bolivia); Tekoporรฃ Mbarete family-support programme (Paraguay); SIFEN national electronic invoicing rollout (Paraguay); Asignaciรณn Universal por Hijo child benefit (Argentina); SUBE national electronic fare and subsidy rail (Argentina); PhilSys foundational national ID rollout (Philippines); Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) (Philippines); Typhoon Yolanda shelter and recovery programme (Philippines); Jaminan Kesehatan Nasional, a near-universal health-insurance pool (Indonesia); InaRISK national disaster-risk information platform (Indonesia); VNeID national electronic identity (Vietnam); Vietnam Social Security health-insurance expansion (Vietnam); Typhoon Yagi emergency restoration (Vietnam); MySejahtera and the national COVID-19 immunisation programme (Malaysia); National flood-warning SMS system (Malaysia); Universal Coverage Scheme and the 30-baht health system (Thailand); National Digital ID framework (Thailand); T-Alert national cell-broadcast warning system (Thailand); Cl@ve shared digital identity (Spain); La Palma volcanic-eruption recovery and monitoring (Spain); mObywatel digital ID wallet (Poland); Rodzina 500+ and 800+ child-benefit delivery (Poland); Alert RCB national emergency SMS channel (Poland); BankID federated electronic identity (Sweden); 1177 national health portal and helpline (Sweden); VMA multi-channel public warning system (Sweden); MyGovID single sign-on for public services (Ireland); National COVID-19 vaccination delivery (Ireland); National Asset Management Agency crisis workout (Ireland); Met ร‰ireann national weather-warning service (Ireland); Salรกrio mรญnimo and its permanent revaluation rule (Brazil); eNaira, a national rollout with an adoption gap (Nigeria); Productive Safety Net Programme for drought resilience (Ethiopia); National 9-1-1 emergency-response system (Dominican Republic); Sistema Nacional de Emergencias 911 (Honduras); National COVID-19 vaccination campaign (Cuba); Bitcoin Law, and its 2025 rollback (El Salvador); Routine immunization coverage, and its erosion (Haiti); Chave Mรณvel Digital and Portugal's digital identity layer (Portugal); Empresa na Hora and the one-stop company registry (Portugal); Sistema de Gestรฃo Integrada de Fogos Rurais (Portugal); Simplex and LabX, a standing simplification-and-experimentation loop (Portugal); Programa Nacional de Vacinaรงรฃo and seasonal immunisation (Portugal); STAYAWAY COVID, a contact-tracing app suspended after the emergency (Portugal); CoWIN national COVID-19 vaccination platform (India); Gauteng e-tolls, and their cancellation after public resistance (South Africa); COFEPRIS digital regulatory procedures (Mexico); Simulacro Nacional 2024, a nationwide emergency exercise (Mexico); PROSPERA, and its replacement by a new scholarship authority (Mexico); AFAD earthquake shelter and recovery operation (Turkey); Civil defence shelters (Finland); Public civil defence shelters, and their dismantling (Germany); The 1997 Canada Pension Plan financing reform (Canada); Dynamic zero-COVID containment, and its dismantling (China); Nigeria's 2014 Ebola containment (Nigeria); SINAPRED evacuation for hurricanes Eta and Iota (Nicaragua); National cholera elimination drive, and the return of cholera (Haiti); Civil Defence hurricane evacuation system (Cuba); Tarea Ordenamiento's single exchange rate, and its fragmentation (Cuba); Covid-19 bridging credits (Switzerland); Civil protection shelters (Switzerland); COVID-19 vaccination campaign (Venezuela); JobKeeper Payment (Australia); Quรฉdate en Casa emergency cash transfer (Dominican Republic); Estonian Stockpiling Agency (Eesti Varude Keskus) national emergency stocks (Estonia); Bono Familia, the COVID-19 emergency cash transfer (Guatemala); Strategic stock of pandemic masks, and its erosion (France); National COVID-19 vaccination campaign (United Arab Emirates); Plan Panamรก Solidario, Vale Digital (Panama); Public disaster warning network of the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation, and its erosion (Thailand); SINARAME national weather radar network (Argentina); Rwanda's 2024 Marburg outbreak response (Rwanda); Jobs Support Scheme and the four 2020 Budgets (Singapore); PUB drainage programme and the shrinking of flood-prone land (Singapore); Catastrophe risk insurance through CCRIF (Nicaragua); National COVID-19 vaccination campaign (Israel); National Social Safety Nets Project and the COVID-19 Rapid Response Register (Nigeria); State medical emergency stockpiles, and their dismantling (Sweden); COVID-19 Vaccine Taskforce and national vaccination rollout (United Kingdom); FONDEN, the natural disaster fund, and its abolition (Mexico); DASK compulsory earthquake insurance (Turkey); Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements (Australia); Disaster Financial Assistance Arrangements (Canada); National Flood Insurance Program coverage, and its erosion (United States); KMA earthquake early warning service (South Korea); South African Weather Service radar network, and its erosion (South Africa); Hunger Safety Net Programme, a shock-responsive cash transfer for drought (Kenya); Auxรญlio Reconstruรงรฃo, the federal cash grant after the 2024 Rio Grande do Sul floods (Brazil); Hurricane Otto priority reconstruction works (Costa Rica); Contingent disaster credit with a Catastrophe Deferred Drawdown Option (Guatemala); National COVID-19 vaccination campaign (Peru); Secretarรญa de Emergencia Nacional response to the 2019 floods (Paraguay); National COVID-19 vaccination campaign (El Salvador); Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (United Kingdom); Activitรฉ partielle in the 2020 crisis (France); Expanded Child Tax Credit of 2021, and its lapse (United States); Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana, the free foodgrain response to COVID-19 (India); Targeted Economic Support Scheme (TESS) (United Arab Emirates); Phased exemption of enterprise social insurance contributions, 2020 (China); Business Finland disruption funding, 2020 (Finland); Partial and flexible unemployment subsidy, 2020-2021 (Uruguay); Ingreso Familiar de Emergencia, the COVID-19 household transfer (Chile); Central Bank of Kenya emergency loan restructuring measures (Kenya); Conditional cash transfer shock response, and its suspension after 2022 (Honduras); Food relief from the national reserve during the July 2021 lockdown (Rwanda); Bank of Israel COVID-19 small-business credit programme (Israel); Plan Nacional de Relocalizaciones, moving households out of flood-prone land (Uruguay); Floating the birr, July 2024 (Ethiopia); COVID-19 vaccination campaign (Bolivia); Ehsaas Emergency Cash (Pakistan); Cyclone Preparedness Programme (Bangladesh); eRecovery (ั”ะ’ั–ะดะฝะพะฒะปะตะฝะฝั) housing compensation programme (Ukraine); Catastrophe insurance regime and the Solidarity Fund against Catastrophic Events (FSEC) (Morocco); Takaful and Karama cash transfer programme (Egypt); Emergency Operation for Development, reconstruction of areas affected by terroristic operations (Iraq); Targeted Subsidy Reform cash transfer, and its erosion (Iran); Earthquake Emergency Recovery after the 2002 Changureh-Avaj earthquake (Iran); Fuel subsidy removal, and its erosion (Angola); Instituto Nacional de Gestao de Calamidades (INGC) (Mozambique); Earthquake housing reconstruction programme (National Reconstruction Authority) (Nepal); Drought Emergency Cash Transfer through the Social Cash Transfer (Zambia); Guinea's 2021 Ebola outbreak response (Guinea); Shock-responsive social cash transfers and the Cat DDO (Malawi); Wage Assistance Scheme and Self-Employed Assistance Scheme, paid by the MRA (Mauritius); Child Grants Programme drought top-ups, 2020 (Lesotho); COVID-19 Urban Cash Intervention, and its slow payment (Malawi); Bank of Uganda COVID-19 credit relief and loan restructuring (Uganda); Response to the 2022 Sudan ebolavirus outbreak (Uganda); COVID-19 vaccination campaign (Botswana); COVID-19 vaccination campaign (Mauritius); Burkin-Naong-Sa Ya adaptive cash transfers for COVID-19 and the lean season (Burkina Faso); Programme de transferts monetaires productifs (PTMP), government-funded COVID-19 expansion (Cรดte d'Ivoire); Lisungi emergency cash transfers for COVID-19 (Republic of the Congo); Domestic Debt Exchange Programme, December 2022 to February 2023 (Ghana); Nafa Quick, the COVID-19 cash transfer carved out of the Nafa programme (Gambia); Programme Gouvernemental de Transferts Monetaires d'Urgence COVID-19 (PGTMU) (Mali); Sudan Family Support Programme (Thamarat), and its halt after the October 2021 coup (Sudan); Response to the 2018 to 2020 North Kivu and Ituri Ebola outbreak (Democratic Republic of the Congo); Routine immunization through the 2023 war, and its erosion (Sudan); Response to the 2025 cholera outbreak, with a high fatality rate (Angola); Ghana's 2022 Marburg virus disease response (Ghana); COVID-19 vaccination campaign (Cรดte d'Ivoire); Mali's 2014 Ebola containment (Mali); COVID-19 emergency food support distributed by the National Disaster Management Agency (Gambia); COVID-19-Kurzarbeit, 2020 to 2021 (Austria); Lรธnkompensation, the 2020 wage compensation scheme (Denmark); Chรดmage temporaire corona, 2020 (Belgium); Cassa integrazione con causale Covid-19, 2020 (Italy); Antivirus job retention programme, 2020 to 2022 (Czechia); Prvรก pomoc (First Aid) job retention scheme, 2020 to 2022 (Slovakia); Potpore za oฤuvanje radnih mjesta (job preservation grants), 2020 (Croatia); Reconstruction after the 2016 and 2017 Central Italy earthquakes (Italy); Zagreb earthquake recovery under the World Bank loan, and its delays (Croatia); Civil defence public warning sirens (tyfoner) and their twice-yearly test (Norway); Recovery after the August 2023 floods (Slovenia); First state aid payments after Storm Daniel (Kratiki Arogi) (Greece); Civil defence shelters and protective trenches, and their erosion (Denmark); National warning siren network and its twice-yearly test (Latvia); eSupport one-off 6,500 hryvnia payment to workers in combat regions, March 2022 (Ukraine); State-paid technical unemployment indemnity in the 2020 state of emergency (Romania); Automatic loan repayment moratorium, March 2020 (Hungary); Three minimum wages paid to private employers in the 2020 state of emergency (Serbia); The 60/40 employment retention measure, 2020 to 2021 (Bulgaria); Recovery from the May 2014 floods: power supply and flood defences (Serbia); Floods Emergency Recovery Project after the May 2014 floods (Bosnia and Herzegovina); Hazard Risk Mitigation and Emergency Preparedness Project: seismic retrofitting and the emergency information system (Romania); State Hydrometeorological Service severe weather warning upgrade (Moldova); Reconstruction programme after the 26 November 2019 earthquake (Albania); AZN 190 monthly allowance to people who lost work, April to June 2020 (Azerbaijan); Temporary unemployment benefit and one-off support for the self-employed, 2020 (Georgia); National Aid Fund temporary cash transfers to informal workers, 2020 (Jordan); KZT 42,500 income-loss payment during the 2020 state of emergency (Kazakhstan); Emergency Social Safety Net (AMAN), and its slow start (Lebanon); Tadamon emergency cash transfers to informal workers, 2020 (Morocco); One-off COVID-19 payments to families with children, 2020 (Russia); AMEN Social emergency transfers, 2020 (Tunisia); COVID-19 low-income family allowances and unemployment benefits, 2020 (Uzbekistan); Response and housing recovery after the spring 2024 floods (Kazakhstan); Earthquake Reconstruction Project in the Spitak earthquake zone (Armenia); Flood Emergency Project after the 1998 southern floods (Kyrgyzstan); Sfax flood protection (belt canal) after the 1982 flood (Tunisia); Housing reconstruction after the February 2019 Shamakhi earthquake (Azerbaijan); Housing recovery after the Sardoba reservoir dam failure, 2020 (Uzbekistan); Emergency Flood Assistance Project after the 1998 and 1999 floods (Tajikistan); Roshydromet modernization: accuracy of hazard warnings to emergency agencies (Russia); COVID-19 vaccination campaign (Egypt); COVID-19 vaccination campaign (Jordan); COVID-19 vaccination campaign (Lebanon); COVID-19 Wage Subsidy Scheme (New Zealand); COVID-19 Allocation of Resources for Employees (CARE) programme (Jamaica); COVID-19 frontloading of old age, widow and disability allowances (Bangladesh); COVID-19 Economic Relief Plan household transfers, and their halt after the 2021 coup (Myanmar); Social insurance contribution exemption, April to September 2020 (Mongolia); Emergency cash transfer top-ups after the 2022 default (Sri Lanka); Nepal Rastra Bank COVID-19 refinance and loan relief (Nepal); COVID-19 Salary Relief Grant and income support (Trinidad and Tobago); Flood and Landslide Emergency Recovery Project, and its slow delivery (Myanmar); Rural housing reconstruction after the 2005 Kashmir earthquake (Pakistan); Owner-driven housing reconstruction after the 2004 tsunami (Sri Lanka); Typhoon Ketsana road recovery under the Road Sector Project (Laos); Earthquake Commission Canterbury Home Repair Programme (New Zealand); Catastrophe bond payout after Hurricane Melissa (Jamaica); Federal strategic stock of protective masks, and its dismantling (Belgium); BE-Alert (Belgium); Work permits for Syrian refugees under the Jordan Compact, and the end of the fee waiver (Jordan); Defence against the June 2013 Danube flood (Hungary).

Missing indicators: Disaster preparedness and recovery, Institutional responsiveness.

What to measure first

The evidence is too thin to manage these dimensions confidently.

Agency

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How able are individuals and organizations to turn an intention into action?

Uses 3 observed indicators.

Missing indicators: Adults doing digital tasks.

Missing data

18 requested indicators have no comparable dataset, and each one lowers confidence. A gap can become an indicator when a comparable series covers at least two countries.

DimensionMissing indicatorWhat it asks
AnticipationGovernment foresight capacityExistence, mandate and continuity of a national strategic foresight function.
AnticipationLong-horizon research commitmentsNew competitively awarded public research grants that run for five years or longer, as a share of all new competitive public research grants awarded in the year.
AgencyAdults doing digital tasksShare of adults who carried out a named digital task in the last three months, such as sending a message with an attached file, moving a file between devices or using a spreadsheet formula, counted one task at a time and never as a skill level.
CoordinationUniversity-industry collaborationIntensity of research collaboration between universities and firms.
CoordinationPublic-private collaborationFrequency and scale of joint public-private delivery of national objectives.
TrustTrust in public institutionsConfidence in national government, courts and civil service.
TrustCourt case clearance rateCivil and commercial cases resolved in a year as a share of cases filed in the same year.
LearningAdult learning participationShare of adults in formal or non-formal education and training in the last 12 months.
ExperimentationVenture dealsFirst venture capital rounds closed by companies based in the country in the year, per million people, counted by deal and never by amount.
ExperimentationFirms through regulatory sandboxesFirms admitted to, and firms completing, a regulatory sandbox or controlled trial regime in the year, per million people, summed across every regulator in the country.
ExperimentationUniversity spinoutsCompanies formed to commercialise university research, per million people.
AdaptabilityDisaster preparedness and recoveryDemonstrated capacity to prepare for and recover from major shocks.
AdaptabilityInstitutional responsivenessSpeed at which rules and public programmes are changed in response to new conditions.
BuildingLarge project deliveryCost and schedule performance of major public infrastructure projects.
BuildingFirm scale-up rateShare of young firms reaching significant employment or turnover thresholds.
Shared PurposeSense of national belongingReported identification with and attachment to the national community, as distinct from pride in the nation.
Shared PurposeVolunteeringShare of adults who volunteered time to an organisation in the last month.
Shared PurposePolitical polarisationDegree to which political differences run along a single hostile divide.

What the indicators miss about Madagascar

Documented deliveries linked to missing indicators. They do not affect scores or confidence.

  • FID crisis response transfers, including Fiavota (Adaptability)

    Madagascar's Fonds d'Intervention pour le Developpement turned its safety net project into a shock-response channel from December 2016, delivering crisis-response unconditional cash transfers to 622,961 people and crisis cash-for-work to 155,649 people after droughts in the South and the 2022 cyclones, by the project's close in October 2024.

  • Tosika Fameno, the COVID-19 urban emergency cash transfer (Adaptability)

    Madagascar's social protection agency FID designed the Tosika Fameno emergency cash transfer after the March 2020 urban lockdown, registered almost 200,000 households in about 12 days, made the first payment four weeks after the lockdown began, and reached more than 368,000 urban households in ten cities with 100,000 ariary payments.

  • Transport Infrastructure Investment Project (national roads, ports and the Northern Railway) (Building)

    Madagascar's road authority and transport agencies delivered road, port, airport and Northern Railway works under the Transport Infrastructure Investment Project from 2004, cutting travel time on the RN44 from 24 to 6 hours, with the closing date extended four years from 30 June 2008 to 30 June 2012 and IDA-financed costs of US$169.39 million against US$150.00 million at appraisal plus US$15.60 million of additional financing added in 2007.

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