Togo

Members of the WASH Coalition

Togo has been a member of the WSSCC family since the 1990s, and was one of the countries that contributed to Vision 21. After a period of relative inactivity, on the 18th of September 2007 a Togo WASH Coalition was launched, composed of members from civil society (FONGTO, CREPA Togo,…), Ministerial departments (Finance, Hydraulics, Health, Communications…), private sector, and financial partners (UNICEF, WHO, Plan Togo, Red Cross, …). 

The Togo WASH Coalition aims to contribute to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals through the promotion of access to water supply, sanitation and hygiene for the Togo population. It plans to do this through ensuring full understanding of the WASH concept and challenges amongst the coalition members and amongst journalists, and to work with the media to raise general awareness. The Coalition plans to build up a WASH campaign, further increase the national WASH coalition, and establish two regional WASH networks in Togo all in order to further sensitise the population to change their behaviour with regards to sanitation and hygiene.

Major milestones and activities

In 2008 a programme of action has been rolled out that includes 4 major projects:
·    Healthy village competition
·    'Friend of WASH' organisational competition
·    WASH media award
·    National awareness raising campaign.

For 2009, some activities are foreseen that will help the coalition members as well as media partners to develop a more in-depth understanding of the WASH concept and challenges, through a series of training exercises.