Togo gets CFA13 billion from Germany to develop its municipalities

Economic governance

Friday, 09 December 2022 16:47

Togo gets CFA13 billion from Germany to develop its municipalities

(Togo First) - Germany will provide Togo with over CFA13 billion to build important infrastructure in 60 of its municipalities. The deal was inked on December 8, 2022, between Togo and the German Development Bank, KfW, which will mobilize the funds. The 60 communes are located in the Plateaux, Central, and Kara regions.

The agreement results from the partnership between Germany and Togo, through the support program for financing municipalities (PAFC).

"The goal is that this facility meets the priority needs of the municipalities. This means that it includes health centers, schools, commercial infrastructure, as well as water infrastructure, in particular," explained Sonia Asserman, Director of KfW's Togo office. "These are basic infrastructures that really have a positive impact on the people of the communes."

Present at the signing, Payadowa Boukpessi, minister of local collectivities, welcomed the deal while expressing his wish to see it extended to the other two regions of Togo (the Maritime and Savanes regions). "We should hope that very quickly, we can extend this program to other regions. We have only five, three are taken into account, and there remain two. I think that the effort is within your reach," Boukpessi said, before adding: "As for us, at the Ministry of Territorial Administration, we would like to confirm that we are committed to doing everything possible to ensure that effective support is provided for the implementation of this program."

Germany, it should be recalled, greatly supported the decentralization process in Togo, notably through the PRODEGAL program and its derivatives. One of the flagship achievements of this program was the local elections which led to the establishment of the country’s 117 municipalities.

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