Summary of WFP assistance:
WFP has been active in Togo since 1968 and resumed activities in 2005 after a 10 year interruption. WFP implemented various operations in the most vulnerable regions of Togo to help improve the food security and nutritional status of the population. WFP has provided assistance to internally displaced people, refugees and vulnerable populations affected by flood emergencies and the high food price crisis. Additionally, in response to the Sahel crisis, WFP is actively involved in logistics and port operations to facilitate the transit of shipments to the affected countries in the Sahel region.
Within its social protection plans, the government has prioritised school feeding as a means to retain children and encourage enrolment in pre-school and primary schools. WFP's expertise in the areas of school feeding, procurement (including local purchases) and logistics has been requested to assist the government in developing and leading a national school feeding programme relying on local purchases.
WFP focuses efforts on supporting the Government of Togo's capacity development for future implementation of a sustainable school feeding programme. In collaboration with the WFP Centre of Excellence against Hunger in Brazil, the country office has been working with the Government of Togo to establish an appropriate institutional framework to manage the school feeding programme.
In 2013-2014, WFP supported the national counterpart in conducting a survey on food security, nutrition and vulnerability of people living with HIV and Tuberculosis to make updated data available. Based on the outcomes of the survey and through the UBRAF funding, WFP plans in the coming months to assist the Ministry of health to review the guide of nutrition assistance for people living with HIV to take into account the “Food by prescription (FbP)’’ approach. That review will be conducted in collaboration with UNAIDS and UNICEF.
The school feeding project contributed to the achievement of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 1 and 2.