512. The various women leadership training programmes carried out by government actors and civil society helped to establish a female leadership for the promotion of gender in Togo. The community-based approach to promote women's leadership led to a change of negative perceptions at the grassroots level about the emergence of women in leadership positions. 513. All of these combined actions yielded significant results:     - the number of seats occupied by women in the National Assembly increased between 2007 and 2013, from 11.11% to 17.58%. Their representation in the government in 2016 was 20.68%; the appointment of two women to the positions of 2nd and 3rd Deputy Speakers of the National Assembly (2013); in 2010, for the first time, a woman represented a political party in the presidential elections; the appointment of a woman to head two institutions of the Republic (Mediator of the Republic and HCRRUN); the recruitment of women into the police force from 2005. There is a total of 350 women, representing 8% of the workforce. There are senior officials among these women:  9.8% of police commissioners are women;  7% of assistant police officers are women;  Six women currently head police stations;  the entry of women into the gendarmerie and the army since 2007. Currently, there are 580, representing 5% of recruits;  women's participation in peacekeeping operations: in 2014, 31 women soldiers including 18 in the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire and 13 in Mali participated in external operations, 4 women of the security forces are deployed in Mali (2) and Darfur (2) ;  the involvement of women in the various political and socio-political crisis management meetings, for instance the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission (CVJR) which was composed of eleven (11) members including (4) women;  in small numbers at the level of the traditional chiefdom (3 women canton leaders out of 387 and 3 women village heads out of 4487). They are increasingly presented as community leaders. 146