Togo

To improve the living conditions of communities in Togo and their access to drinking water, AFD is funding water supply and solid waste management programs in both urban and rural areas.

Since 2007, AFD has been helping the autonomous district of Greater Lomé improve its governance and performance in solid waste management. The Lomé Urban Environment Program (PEUL) aims to enhance the organization of the waste sector, secure the former waste disposal site and improve the Aképé landfill’s operations.

As the main donor of Togo’s water sector, AFD is helping to improve water supply in Greater Lomé through co-financing arrangements with the European Union (EU). We support the implementation of the master plan for the sector and the development of water infrastructure throughout the country. Since 2012, we have been supporting the program to improve living conditions and hygiene through access to drinking water and sanitation: this project provides schools and villages with access to water and latrines.

With delegated EU funds, we also support the implementation of the master plan for sanitation for Greater Lomé and are building storm drainage infrastructure to offer flood protection for residents living on the outskirts of the capital.
 

Togo is heavily dependent on its neighbors for energy and is struggling to meet growing national demand. To resolve these issues, the country has committed to an electrification strategy developed in 2018 with support from the international community.

AFD, the main donor in the sector, is helping Compagnie Energie Electrique du Togo (CEET) roll out its investment master plan. It is focusing its support on improving the quality and quantity of people's access to energy and economic activities. Two projects are currently under way, co-financed with the German bank, KfW, and the European Union:

• Extension of the Greater Lomé electric distribution network: the project will reinforce the energy systems, reduce inequalities by developing suburban areas, develop renewable energy production, and increase access to reliable electricity and economic activities through the financial recovery of CEET.
•  A similar program aims to upgrade, extend and increase the density of the electricity network in 53 towns outside Greater Lomé. It will provide over 500,000 people with access to reliable and sustainable electricity.

The Togolese education system is under strong demographic pressure due to an increase in the number of school-age children. The vocational training system has deteriorated considerably and is inadequate to meet the country’s unemployment challenges. AFD makes human capital development a priority in its activities in Togo with the aim of empowering each student to realize their full potential and ensuring that the country can rely on a competent and qualified workforce.

We are boosting basic education through the middle school reform program. The goal is to reduce territorial inequalities in access to secondary education, while improving the quality of education and gender equity in middle schools.

We help young graduates enter the job market by modernizing the country’s agricultural and rural training centers, and strengthening and ensuring the sustainability of the Industry Job Training Center’s activities (CFMI).

AFD has ended its activities in the health sector, which it had supported since 2003, and is now focusing its funding on the social protection sector, for which it supports safety net programs.

Following the satisfactory results from the Novissi program introduced by the Togolese authorities in 2020 to alleviate the social and financial crises caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, we are continuing our efforts to extend, structure and strengthen the social protection system for vulnerable individuals, alongside the World Bank.

Several major projects are now under way in the booming agriculture and rural development sector. They aim to make the agricultural sector a driver of economic growth and job creation. Two rural road development programs are under way, both co-financed with the German development bank, KfW:

• Our first area of support aims to open up rural agricultural areas and promote access to markets and basic public services for family farms. More than 600 km of cotton and coffee-cocoa farm tracks have been built and rehabilitated in the Savanes and Plateaux regions and living conditions have improved for over 500,000 agricultural producers.
• We continue to support the development and construction of rural infrastructure and strengthen infrastructure network maintenance capacities.

We also plan to support the rehabilitation of irrigated plots and the building of 55 hillside dams for agro-pastoral activities, in partnership with KfW, and develop female entrepreneurship in the agricultural sector.

AFD is a leading partner of the regional development banks operating in the country. 

After over forty years of partnership, we are among the top donors supporting the West African Development Bank (WADB). Since July 2020, we have been supporting it in the implementation of a Covid-19 and climate change response strategy for WAEMU countries. 

Since July 2020, in the aftermath of the pandemic, we have been supporting the subregional economic and financial integration of the ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) by financing economic recovery investments for Member States and the private sector in the ECOWAS region.

Through its Proparco subsidiary, which focuses on private-sector financing, AFD also promotes public-private partnerships. Proparco takes action through various financial tools: credit lines (Ecobank ETI, CRRH), equity investments in holding companies (Oragroup), and regional investments in Togo, and through bank guarantees (Ariz) for SMEs (Ecobank, Orabank).