Togo got five, fully equipped, mobile clinics to improve access to health services for the most vulnerable and isolated populations. The clinics will be deployed across the country’s five regions, one clinic per region.

Respectively, each clinic comes with 4x4 support cars, a lab and a pharmacy, and costs about CFA30 million. They should serve nearly 2,700 villages in the country’s most remote areas, benefitting 2.5 million potential patients. Overall, the mobile clinics should carry out 276,000 visits, yearly. 

The clinics were delivered last Wednesday in Kantè, northern region, in the presence of President Faure Gnassingbé himself. They were offered, let’s emphasize, in the framework of the Community Development Emergency Program (PUDC). Two more sets of mobile clinics are expected to be delivered to meet populations’ dental and eye care especially.

Ayi Renaud Dossavi  

In Togo, SOLEVA, the firm in charge of the CIZO project with BBOXX, will start its activities in the country in Q2 2019, thus initiating its 12-month pilot phase on the project.

In line with its specifications for the contract, SOLEVA and its US partner Greenlight Planet should “sell and distribute at least 300,000 of Greenlight’s Sun King® solar systems in the next five years, providing electricity to more than two million people living mostly in Togo’s rural areas."  

It should be noted that since it was launched about a year ago, nearly 10,000 households got solar kits through the CIZO project. The latter aims at making households rely more on solar power and boost electrification in rural areas.

Séna Akoda

The WAEMU has developed a program supporting top-class training and research within the community, in line with its human resources development objectives.

For the 2019-2020 edition of this program, WAEMU launched a call for applications to preselect those who will benefit from the support which lasts 12 months. The latter can neither be prolonged, postponed nor renewed.

This year, the union’s commission will prioritize the following fields: Engineering, accounting, public health, education, sciences, and ICT.

The support includes CFA200,000 for installation fees, the same amount for insurance, and CFA150,000 per month, over the 12 months it covers.

Interested candidates should look up WAEMU’s website for more information and fill the application form. Deadline for application is April 30, 2019.

Séna Akoda

All rural arable land owned by private entities or individuals must be valorized or they will be trusted to any investor who legally requests to do so.

Last Wednesday, this decision was adopted in a decree passed by the council of ministers held that day. According to the decree, “in the event a land is passed from one owner to another that requested to valorize it, the new owner must use the land in line with leasing conditions.”

The new decree, it should be noted, falls under the country’s new private and public land code, adopted last June. This regulation aims at ensuring the good implementation of Togo’s national agricultural strategy, preserving environment, and making the economy more attractive.

Ayi Renaud Dossavi

Togo’s top 100 most dynamic companies will be revealed next March 16, in Lomé. This will be during the “Gala des 100 entreprises les plus dynamiques du Togo” which will be attended by the country’s best businessmen and women.

The event is organized by Eco Finance Entreprises and the top 100 firms were selected based on four criteria used to conduct a performance assessment.

The criteria are expertise (based on how many years the firm has been active in the country), innovation capacity, market penetration capacity (based on the firm’s positioning in the market) and economic impact (based on how many jobs the firm created and how it impacted other sectors).

Senegal, Benin and Guinea Conakry have already hosted the event in the past. In Togo, it should be chaired by the State summit. Back in 2016 let’s recall, this event listed Togo’s Graduate School of Business, RODIS and Brasserie BB Lomé, among others, as the most dynamic and innovative firms operating in the respective fields.

Séna Akoda

In Togo, a new version of commerce registry and mobile credit database (RCCM) will be released online by the end of March 2019. This was revealed at a workshop on the platform’s update last January.

The database should help the public freely access reliable information relating to their commercial partners’ legal and financial situation, but also their prior commitments.

In effect, the RCCM contains data such as firms’ balance sheets, details on their management, financial commitments, privileges and legal actions affecting them such as bankruptcy, sales, dissolution…  

Adopted as it is now in 2016, the RCCM got OHADA’s support in 2017, with the launch of an integrated software to manage national registries and files.

On Feb 27, 2019, the board of Green Climate Fund (GCF) approved a €100 million financing for the BOAD to boost clean power utilization across the WAEMU, sources close to the regional bank revealed.

In effect, the monies will be used to implement the FP105 project in WAEMU’s six countries. The latter aim at de-carbonizing their energy mix and improving access to clean energy.

Through this project, the BOAD plans to provide least advanced francophone countries in West Africa (Togo, Benin, Burkina-Faso, Guinea Bissau, Mali, Niger), funds to reinforce their actions relating to the transition from fossil energy to renewables.

For Togo which aims for renewables to contribute 50% of its energy mix by 2030, it should present multiple projects to capture a substantial portion of the GCF facility.   

Séna Akoda