GWP-WA Secretariat working to revamp CWP Togo together with stakeholders

The Togo's Country Water Partnership (CWP) was set up in November 2006. Since its creation, this CWP has never been able to evolve well despite an apparently favorable environment to its development. The authorities and stakeholders in the institutional landscape of the water sector have been calling for the revitalization of the platform and the relaunching of its activities in order to contribute to finding solutions to strategic issues related to water management at different levels in Togo.

A mission led by the Executive Secretary accompanied by the GWP-WA's Communication and Knowledge Management Officer was undertaken to exchange with the key actors of water resources management in the country to better understand their concerns and the actions to be carried out together with GWP-WA to relaunch the activities of the Partnership and give it more visibility. The mission allowed to make an overview of the major actors of the sector in the country.

The participants discussed the current difficulties and the reasons for the non-functioning of the CWP, the major issues of the sustainable water resources management sector were discussed and the main challenges of the CWP identified. The relevance of the CWP in the institutional anchoring of the water sector was recognized and reaffirmed by all the actors met and the major actions to be carried out to relaunch the CWP Togo were identified and discussed. Stakeholders met insisted on and clearly affirmed their availability to accompany the relaunch actions and to work to allow the CWP to play its full role in the institutional anchoring in the country.

Together with actors, the suggestion was made that a group of five institutions be set as  the core group of the revitalization process.