TOGO GOVT. ALLOCATE FUNDS FOR CLEAN WATER PROJECTS

Togo will devote CFA18 billion to clean water projects this year. The budget was set under the 2024 finance bill and aligns with the country’s ambition to achieve universal coverage by 2030. 

Compared to the amount set last year, CFA17 billion, the new allocation (provisional) is up by 5.8%. 

The funds will help advance the national water supply strategy launched in February 2021. In detail, they will enable the launch of the PASSCO3. This is the third phase of a project that aims to improve sanitary conditions in the schools and villages of the Kara and Savanes regions.  

Under the PASSCO3, 850 boreholes equipped with human-powered pumps will be built in the targeted regions. Subsequently, over 200,000 people will be able to drink potable water by the end of 2025.

Part of the allocated funds will also help improve the water supply in Lomé, the capital. It will serve to equip and connect the 40m3 per hour borehole at Apédokoe to the new 1,300m3 water tower under construction at Sagbado.

The operational phase of the Togo Urban Water Security Project (PaSH-MUT), launched in October 2023, could also be launched. Through this project, six autonomous drinking water supply systems in outlying areas of Lomé will be set up.

According to recent data communicated by the Minister of Water and Village Hydraulics, the national coverage rate by the end of 2022 was 67%.

SOURCE: TogoFirst