Resources / Global Sanitation Fund Sanitation Sector Status and Gap Analysis for Togo

Summary

In doing so, the review describes the country's current sanitation and hygiene status, relevant national policies, the organization of the sector, constraints and opportunities for the GSF, and knowledge gaps that the GSF will help fill. The National Sanitation and Hygiene Policy and the water supply and Sanitation Policy in farming and semi urban areas constitute the main reference documents as far as Sanitation and Hygiene issue in Togo is concerned. Several orientations contained in these documents of policies are in compliance with the principles of Global Sanitation Fund notably, the demand led approach, the participative approach, the gender approach, the results centred management etc. All this constitutes the opportunities that can permit to optimize the chance of success of the programs that will be financed in the future. Nevertheless, it is important to clarify the roles and responsibilities of the ministers in charge of Sanitation and Hygiene sub sector in order to reinforce their intervention as well as that of the National WASH Coalition in view of the success of the actions to undertake. Otherwise, the Government has elaborated a strategic plan of implementation of the national hygiene and sanitation policy and a program of water and sanitation in the framework of the reach of the MDGs. For the same purpose, a strategic document of poverty alleviation has also been elaborated, which was followed by the conception of a priority action plan for the period 2009-2011, including a shutter for water, hygiene and sanitation. All these documents constitute supplementary assets in view of the support of the Global Sanitation Fund aiming at the alleviation of poverty in Togo. It is also necessary to mention that, since May 2009, the ministry of health has engaged a process of actualization of the National hygiene and sanitation policy with the support of UNICEF. The current process which aims at enabling the elaboration of an actualized hygiene and sanitation policy should come to an end by November 2009. It should make room for the adaptation of the provisions contained in the previous policies to the contest of the integrated management of water resources, to the climate changes, to the decentralization, and the setting up of the poverty alleviation strategy.