Togo/Haho: after three and a half years, the Urban Governance Improvement Project is almost 60% complete

Three and a half years after its launch, the project to improve urban governance and social openness in the communes of Haho presents its assessment. To date, the project has achieved a completion rate of 58% over 43 months, and claims to have benefited more than 24,500 inhabitants in terms of access to drinking water, 4,500 people in terms of sanitation facilities, and 2,100 users of school latrines.

Presented at a workshop in Notsé on Wednesday, September 4, the initiative, supported by the European Union (EU), aims to modernize urban and social services in Haho. Since its launch in 2021, 334 birth certificates and 10,013 supplementary judgments have been issued, and capacity-building sessions and literacy courses organized.

Essential infrastructures, such as latrines, boreholes and rehabilitated tourist sites, have also been built, at a total cost of over 1.1 billion FCFA.

The representative of the EU delegation, Dr Piero Valabrega, quoted by ATOP, hailed these advances, while urging local leaders to continue their efforts to perpetuate these achievements and guarantee a lasting impact for vulnerable populations.

Initiated by the communes of Haho in 2021 for a period of 60 months, this project represents an overall cost of 2.6 billion FCFA, 15% of which comes from local contributions and the largest share (over 2.2 billion FCFA) from the EU.

Source: www.togofirst.com