CAADP Compact: Togo signed the CAADP Compact on 29 - 30 July 2009.
Capacity Building: Demand-driven, modular, short-term pilot measures for agricultural training (along selected value chains) were offered by public and private agricultural training institutions for 200 young ‘agripreneurs’ of which 60 were women.
Capacities were enhanced in agricultural skills and entrepreneurial and commercial knowledge for trainers, youth and women in selected agricultural training centres in Benin, Burkina Faso and Togo (over 3 000, with women constituting about 30 per cent).
NEPAD also supported Togo by undertaking a basic diagnostic study of agriculture public expenditures and a specialised study on public expenditure tracking was conducted from 4 – 9 June 2010. Technical experts were deployed to Togo in June 2010 to undertake independent technical reviews of their National Agricultural Investment Plans (NAIPs). The National Agricultural Investment Programme and Food Security (PNIASA) has five main programmes: Development of the vegetable, livestock and fisheries sectors, research and making knowledge accessible, sectoral coordination and institutional strengthening.
Business: Togo’s first CAADP Business Meeting was held on 14 - 17 June 2010.
Funding: Togo received funding from the Global Agriculture and Food Security Platform (GAFSP) amounting to USD 39 million.
Results:
- In the four years since its implementation, the PNIASA has contributed to improving food security through the availability of quality food produced nationally. Production of cereal is at 106 per cent of the country’s food requirements.
- Initiatives of the PNIASA have also resulted in the creation of jobs in the agriculture and related sectors.
- Togo has also since conducted two studies to review public expenditure in agriculture.