Ratings for the Community-Driven Development Project (CDD) for Togo were as follows: outcomes were satisfactory, the risk to development outcome was substantial, the Bank performance was satisfactory, and the Borrower performance was also satisfactory.
... See More + Some lessons learned included: the project was highly effective in providing a quick response to Togo's difficult situation after fifteen years of socio-economic decline. The experience showed that rapid impact on poverty in such a situation can be achieved by a CDD approach backed up by an institutional structure that empowers local communities by decentralizing decision taking and strengthens their capacity through sustained support and capacity building. The principal lesson is that effective poverty reduction through community-level initiatives requires well-structured support and implementation mechanisms together with intensive supervision and capacity building. In the particular case of Togo, the resulting recommendation is that the Government and Bank now need to focus on how to institutionalize, strengthen and finance the functions currently carried out by the central (Technical Secretariat) and regional (AGAIB) organizations to provide the continued investment finance, institutional and technical support and capacity building necessary to sustain the CDD momentum in communities already supported and to extend the CDD approach to all poor communities nationwide.
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Implementation Completion and Results Report ICR2988 MAR 26, 2014
The objective of the Additional Financing for the Community Development and Safety Nets Project for Togo is to provide poor communities with greater access to basic socio-economic infrastructures and social safety nets.
... See More + The additional financing will help finance the costs associated with: (a) scaling up the Projet de Developpement Communautaire et des Filets Sociaux (PDCplus) by increasing support for community infrastructure sub-projects; and (b) providing financing for a new community-based school feeding sub-component, which was supported under the PDC until it closed on September 30, 2013. This project paper also seeks approval for restructuring the PDCplus in order to extend the closing date, reallocate funds, and revise outcome indicator targets in line with the expanded activities.
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The development objective of the Maternal and Child Health (MCH) and Nutrition Services Support Project for Togo is to increase utilization of selected MCH and nutrition services for pregnant women and children.
... See More + The project has two components. The first component is improved utilization of malaria and nutrition services to address malaria in pregnancy through the provision of intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in pregnancy (IPTp) with sulfodoxinepyrimethamine (SP) and free long-lasting insecticide nets (LLINs), to pregnant women attending antenatal care (ANC). It has following two sub-components: (i) support for: (a) malaria control in pregnancy through provision of LLINs and SPs as part of the basic package of ANC services; (b) community-based diagnosis and treatment of malaria; and (c) management, supervision, and behavioral changes to ensure effective utilization; and (ii) community- based nutrition services for pregnant women and young children under five years of age. The second component is strengthening health monitoring and evaluation systems; project management. It has following two sub-components: (i) strengthening the health monitoring and evaluation system, particularly the health management information system (HMIS), including the government's capacity to monitor its MCH programs; and (ii) project coordination and implementation support.
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