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The African Intellectual Property Organization (OAPI), in partnership with the Togolese government, launched last yesterday the "Project for Reinforcement and Promotion of the Plant Variety Protection System at OAPI and its member States (PPOV)."
This "system gives African actors of agricultural sectors exclusive rights over any plant variety they discover or create," sources...
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) Microfinance Program has launched in Togo a call for innovative projects, under its Innovative Programme on Youth and Climate Change.
The call which closes next October 18, will see eligible civil society organizations get up to $50,000 of funding for their projects.
Steered by the UN Development Program (PNUD), the initiative aims to empower...
At the end of last week, the national commission fighting the proliferation of small caliber and light firearms (CNLPAL) destroyed small-caliber weapons and ammunition (obsolete and ceased). This was done in collaboration with the United Nations Regional Center for Peace and Disarmament in Africa (UNREC).
A total of 2,300 arms and more than 10,000 bullets were destroyed.
The initiative...
Twelve local organizations of forest and farm producers will benefit from a financial agreement recently signed by the FAO and five development partners.
Under the agreement, benefiting entities in the country’s central, maritime and plateaux regions will improve their capacities using funding of more than XOF88 million provided by the FAO and the partners.
The initiative falls under the...
The West African Development Bank, the financial arm of the West African States Economic and Monetary Union, has for some years now been fighting global warming through various initiatives.
For example, earlier this year, it organized in Accra the African Climate Week. In 2018, the regional institution also launched a contest to select an innovative project in the renewable energy sector, on the...
From October 14 to 16, the 2019 Africa Code Week will be taking place in Togo. The event was launched last Friday at the ministry of posts, digital economy and technological innovations.
Before that, on September 13 and 14, a training workshop for the concerned trainers was organized.
Launched in 2015 by the German firm SAP (which stands for Systems, Applications, and Products for data...
Moov-Togo and NSIA-Togo have partnered to launch “Zem Assur”, “the country’s very first mobile-based micro-insurance product for taxi-bikes and two or three-wheel drives.” This was disclosed by Moov last Friday.
The insurance can be subscribed via Flooz, Moov’s mobile money service. Insured drivers, in the event of accidents, are taken care of by NSIA which covers first...
Since last Monday, the Alliance for the Promotion of the Port of Lomé (AP2L) has been in Ouagadougou, in the framework of a meeting to boost trade between the port and Burkina Faso. The information was reported by Sidwaya.info.
The meeting which will close today is themed: “Retaining Lomé port’s clientele in Sahel nations.”
Participants of the meeting will discuss ways to...
The West African Development Bank (BOAD) just lent Togo XOF20 billion to partially finance the rehabilitation and asphalting of the n°17 national road, connecting Katchamba to Satori (about 489km north of Lomé).
The loan agreement was signed on September 19, 2019, between Sani Yaya, Togo’s minister of finance, and Christian Adovelande, president of the BOAD.
Besides funding works for the...
In 2018, Togo received $440.3 million of official development assistance, according to Christophe Akpoto, Head of bilateral cooperation. This, he revealed yesterday as the 2018 report on ODA was released.
The amount is 12.9% up compared to 2017 when the funds amounted to $389.85 million.
In detail, most of the monies provided to the country last year came from the World Bank (21%),...
By a decree passed at the recent council of ministers held last Saturday, Togo’s General State Inspectorate (IGE) now has a permanent obligation to control, audit, investigate and promote the good management of public finances.
The institution, according to the same decree, has also been placed under presidential authority. The decision translates the government’s efforts to ensure that Togo...
Last Wednesday, actors of Togo’s agricultural sector discussed in Lomé the implementation in Togo of the Agroecological Transition Support Project in West Africa (PATAE).
The project aims to spur agricultural practices which will help preserve and restore both exploited and natural ecosystems while improving yields of family farms, subsequently boosting food security, revenues of households...
On Sept. 19, 2019, a council of ministers was held in Lomé to revise the 2019 budget for the country.
According to the meeting’s minutes, the budget has been scaled up by 2.8%, from XOF1,461 billion initially, to 1,501.9 billion. Budget rectifications take into account structural reforms needed to improve public spending management.
In addition, some policies of the General Tax Code have...
Germany just granted Togo eight million euros, for the third phase of the decentralization support program (PAD 3). The funds were allocated by KfW, Germany’s development bank.
“The monies will help provide an adequate work environment for local representatives,” said Sani Yaya, Togo’s minister of finance, at the signing of the financing agreement between the State and KfW, last...
On September 18, Togolese authorities held in Lomé a meeting to review procurement systems based on the MAPS methodology. MAPS is a universal tool which promotes and accelerates the implementation of modern, sustainable and more inclusive procurement systems.
The recent review takes place after another conducted in 2016. The latter, while lauding Togo’s procurement system, at legislative,...
Last Tuesday, security and border experts of the Council of the Entente regrouping Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Niger, and Togo, met in Lomé to elaborate new regulations to reinforce defense and security in the above-mentioned States.
The documents will be submitted to respective leaders of the Council’s States at the fourth annual meeting of Government and State leaders which is to...