Actions in Togo

  • Pensions

    Social Protection

    Capacity building of CIPRES in providing continuing trainings to OPS staff in the field of social protection

    Western Africa Togo
    Start activities
    12-12-2022
    End activities
    21-04-2023
    Partner Institution
    Inter-African Conference on Social Welfare [Conférence Interafricaine de la Prévoyance Sociale] (CIPRES)
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional capacity building, Organisational capacity building
    Code
    2022-27
    Description
    The Inter-African Conference on Social Welfare (CIPRES) reached out to SOCIEUX+ in view of reinforcing its Executive Secretariat in training engineering capacities. CIPRES aims to put in place a training center that will provide trainings to technical staff. This action, led by French and Belgian experts, produced a complete training engineering guide tailored to CIPRES needs. The guide includes step by step instructions to do a training design, assessing training needs of an organization, operational aspects of delivering a training, and monitoring and evaluation of training delivery.

  • Social Protection

    Technical assistance for the evaluation of the real cost of health care procedures and the updating of the basic prices for the reimbursement of health care services

    Western Africa Togo
    Start activities
    05/09/2022
    End activities
    24-02-2023
    Partner Institution
    National Health Insurance Institute [Institut National d'Assurance Maladie du Togo] (INAM)
    Type of Assistance
    Organisational capacity building
    Code
    2022-05
    Description
    The National Health Insurance Institute (INAM) of Togo is a SOCIEUX+ long-standing partner. Together, strategic and organizational topics have been addressed, thus enhancing INAM’s role into the management of health insurance, particularly in view of the roll-out of the 2021 Law instituting the Universal Health Coverage (UHC). This Action focused on specific components of health insurance management such as tariffication of health procedures and the assessment of the quality/performance of health service provision covered by the insurance. Experts from Belgium and France helped updating the reimbursement prices of a sample, based on a price-setting methodology that will remain in INAM’s availability.

  • Social Protection

    Soft skills: a strategic challenge for youth employment – e conference

    WESTERN AFRICA Togo
    Start activities
    12/03/2021
    End activities
    30/03/2021
    Partner Institution
    National Agency for the Promotion of Employment [Agence Nationale pour l'Emploi] (ANPE)
    Type of Assistance
    International events (awareness raising)
    Code
    2020-29
    Description
    The online conference « Les soft skills : un enjeu stratégique pour développer l’employabilité des jeunes » organized by the National Agency for Employment of Togo together with SOCIEUX+ and the YouMatch Global Initiative on innovative employment services for youth funded by German cooperation agency GIZ gathered more than 80 participants from 15 African and EU countries to discuss how soft skills – or life skills and competences that are necessary to enter, to maintain and/or change employment, but that cannot be confirmed by formal working experience or diplomas (unlike technical skills) – are changing the labour market of the future and how public employment services can take the advantage of this emerging concept to reinforce the employability of vulnerable groups, including young people, rural population of women. Experts from France mobilized by SOCIEUX+ presented their expertise together with their peers from African Countries.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Training of Trainers for employment counsellors on the development of soft skills for job seekers  [Formation des Formateurs, pour former les Conseillers emploi …]

    WESTERN AFRICA Togo
    Start activities
    05/04/2021
    End activities
    15/05/2022
    Partner Institution
    National Agency for the Promotion of Employment [Agence Nationale pour l'Emploi] (ANPE)
    Type of Assistance
    Human resources management
    Code
    2020-27
    Description
    Experts from Belgium and France conducted a remote assessment of the capacities, gaps and needs of the ANPE Togo, with particular reference to support services available to young entrepreneurs and jobseekers for reinforce their employability through the development of soft skills. Based on the assessment, experts delivered a training of trainers to selected ANPE’s staff.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Support to the revision of legislative and regulatory texts in the fields of Labour and Public Services

    WESTERN AFRICA TOGO
    Start activities
    25/11/2018
    End activities
    01/03/2019
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Public Function, Labour, Administrative Reform and Social Protection [Ministère de la Function Publique du Travail et de la Reforme Administrative]
    Type of Assistance
    Code
    2018-26
    Description
    The Ministry of Public Function, Labour, Administrative Reform and Social Protection of Togo had the objective to fill current gaps and identified deficiencies in the application of the Labour code and in the regulations governing civil servants’ employment. The support provided through French public expertise served this purpose, by first looking into the current regulations and identifying problems, inconsistencies, and bottlenecks; then by drafting a report and presenting its conclusions to selected partners as a way to formulate practical suggestions as to improve the civil servants’ employment system.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Green Jobs Programme development (Renforcement des capacités de l’Agence Nationale Pour l’Emploi du Togo pour la promotion des Emplois verts parmi les jeunes)

    Western Africa TOGO
    Start activities
    21/08/2019
    End activities
    28/05/2020
    Partner Institution
    Public Employment Service [Agence Nationale pour l'Emploi] (ANPE)
    Type of Assistance
    Policy development
    Code
    2019-16
    Description
    The National Agency for the Promotion of Employment (ANPE) of Togo aimed, through this action, to acknowledge possible concrete measures to accompany young people towards green jobs. At first the employability potential of the youth in green jobs has been assessed; in particular, possible skills deficits and gaps between the demand for new or adapted qualifications for green jobs and the current offer of vocational training were identified. On this basis, experts supported the partner in initiating a dialogue with the training institutions to start adapting the training offer to the potential of Togolese organic agriculture. The final activity resulted in a methodology to develop training curricula in the sector of organic agriculture. Participants came. Throughout the Action, experts from France and the Netherlands engaged with peers from the ANPE and various vocational training institutions to identify capacity needs for the green economy as well as to let emerge a network of public and private actors active in the promotion and training on green jobs.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Support to the International Forum on health coverage in the CIPRES area

    Western Africa TOGO
    Start activities
    03/03/2019
    End activities
    03/05/2019
    Partner Institution
    Conférence Interafricaine de la Prévoyance Sociale (CIPRES)
    Type of Assistance
    Code
    2018-32
    Description
    The Conférence Interafricaine de la Prévoyance Sociale (CIPRES) is a long-standing partner of SOCIEUX+. It gathers social security entities from 18 countries, mainly from Francophone Africa. In this circumstance the CIPRES Secretariat requested SOCIEUX+ to mobilize two public experts to share their country experiences and models on the occasion of the annual Forum on health coverage in the CIPRES area. Experts from France and Luxembourg have covered the following themes: an intervention of the financing of universal health coverage and good practices on the governance of organizations running health insurance schemes. The Forum took place in Lomé (Togo) in March 2019.

  • Social Protection

    2nd International Forum on Pensions in the CIPRES zone

    Western Africa TOGO
    Start activities
    22-10-2018
    End activities
    27-10-2018
    Partner Institution
    Conférence Interafricaine de la Prévoyance Sociale (CIPRES)
    Type of Assistance
    Regional events (awareness raising)
    Code
    2018-25
    Description
    The Conférence Interafricaine de la Prévoyance Sociale (CIPRES) is a long-standing SOCIEUX+ partner. It gathers social security entities from 18 countries, mainly from Francophone Africa. In this circumstance the CIPRES’ Secretariat requested SOCIEUX+ to mobilize public expertise to share EU country experiences and models on the occasion of the annual Forum on pension systems in the CIPRES area. A single expert from Lithuania took part to the Forum and delivered a presentation entitled: "Towards new models of pension system: European Union recommendations and comparative analysis".

  • Social Protection

    Improving technical management tools available to INAM

    Western Africa Togo
    Start activities
    02/04/2018
    End activities
    02/08/2019
    Partner Institution
    National Health Insurance Institute (INAM)
    Type of Assistance
    Organisational management (structures & functions)
    Code
    2017-39
    Description
    The experts’ contribution targeted several dimensions of organizational capacities and tools that are key to allow the Institut National d’Assurance Maladie (INAM) of Togo to efficiently run an extension of health insurance coverage to private sector’s workers and aim to full, universal coverage. Among the matters tackled by mobilized teams of experts from France, Italy, and Romania were contracting capabilities and management of agreements with health care providers, costing of medical procedures, and economic and actuarial analysis. The technical assistance has thus provided very specific, methodological and operational recommendations that aim to enlarge INAM’s set of tools and knowledge necessary to efficiently run health insurance.

  • Social Protection

    Support to the “International Forum on Health Coverage in the Conférence Interafricaine de la Prévoyance Sociale Area (CIPRES)”

    WESTERN AFRICA TOGO
    Start activities
    Aug-17
    End activities
    Aug-17
    Partner Institution
    Inter-African Conference on Social Welfare [Conférence Interafricaine de la Prévoyance Sociale]
    Type of Assistance
     International events (awareness raising)
    Code
    2017-19
    Description
    Experts from France and Luxembourg provided two written (paper) and visual (PowerPoint) presentations as background documents for the International Forum on Health Coverage in the CIPRES area, expected to take place in Brazzaville on 4-6 October 2017.

  • Social Protection

    Support to the strengthening of social dialogue and to the extension of social protection in Togo

    WESTERN AFRICA Togo
    Start activities
    apr-17
    End activities
    apr-17
    Partner Institution
    Ministry for Public Function, Labour and Administrative Reform [Ministère de la Function Publique du Travail et de la Réforme Administrative]
    Type of Assistance
    National events (awareness raising)
    Code
    2016-01
    Description
    The Ministry of Public Function, Labour, Administrative Reform and Social Protection of Togo requested SOCIEUX+ support to reshuffle the institutional framework for social dialogue, notably the role of the Conseil National pour le Dialogue social. Deepening the social dialogue is seen as part of an economic development strategy based on greater social cohesion and a fair allocation of the dividends of growth. Experts from Belgium and France have analyzed the current situation and provided methodological recommendations with a view to organising a round table aimed to renew and restart the institutional framework for social dialogue; to this purpose, experts have prepared an orientation note, a proposal of agenda, and supporting documentation.

  • Social Protection

    Support for the set up of universal health insurance

    Western Africa TOGO
    Start activities
    oct-2015
    End activities
    sep-2016
    Partner Institution
    Institut National d’Assurance Maladie (INAM)
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional Strengthening
    Code
    2015-09
    Description
    Experts mobilized from France and Lebanon delivered an analysis of Togo’s Institut National d’Assurance Maladie (INAM)’s institutional organization and capacities. The assessment focused on the challenges faced by INAM in view of the extension of health coverage, clarified the institutional responsibilities, while identifying issues requiring further technical assistance to INAM, such as the preparation of a strategic plan, the enhancement of internal capacities in the field of “risk management,” and the development of a management information system. The first two topics were then addressed by experts through peer-to-peer exchanges with the relevant INAM’s executives and staff, presenting models and good practices applicable to INAM’s context and needs.

  • Health

    Social Protection

    Support to the organisation of a pension forum

    Western Africa Togo
    Start activities
    jul-2016
    End activities
    jul-2016
    Partner Institution
    Inter-African Conference on Social Welfare [Conférence Interafricaine de la Prévoyance Sociale]
    Type of Assistance
    Organisational management (structures & functions)
    Code
    2015-20
    Description
    The Inter-African Conference for Social Welfare (CIPRES) is a regional organisation of fifteen Western and Central African countries created by the Ministries in charge of finances and social affairs in 1993. It formulates common management guidelines for social protection institutions. It also conducts studies, formulates harmonisation proposals on legislations, and facilitates training of managerial and technical staff at the regional level. As part of its thematic responabilities, the CIPRES also responds to the needs of its members for innovative and coherent mechanisms for reforms which will guarantee financial sustainability of pensions. For this purpose, CIPRES decided to organise a a regional pension forum to discuss the future of pensions systems, and to initiate a reflection and an exchange about best possible solutions for mitigating financial risks. European experts mobilised by SOCIEUX participated in the three-day Forum on Pensions for the CIPRES Region, which took place in Abidjan, Cameroon, end of July 2016. They were speakers on European best practices, and participated as resource persons in the debates of the panels on financing of pension systems and policies for the placement of reserve funds, and on perspectives of pension funds for the civil service/public sector, and factors for their viability.