Microfinance Strategy (SNMF) which includes provisions securing women
"economic assets" who are in the majority in the access to financial products offered
by the sector. This is the reason why several programmes and structuring projects
have been developed with microfinance strategies the main beneficiaries of whom are
women. Among these national microfinance programmes and measures feature
prominently:
the project to support groups of economic actvities (PSAEG)
608. This project has three components: equipment support, capacity building and
financing of women's income-generating activities at subsidized rates. With regard to
the first component, 5,000 groups of approximately 45,000 women benefited from
equipment support, in accordance with the needs expressed by these groups.
609. With regard to the second component, group members, most of them rural
women, were trained on cooperative mechanisms and promotion, animal and plant
production techniques, savings and credit management, agri-food processing, animal
traction, rural construction, community life, networking of organizations, group
marketing, negotiation techniques, self-evaluation of activities, development of
business plans or micro-projects, identification of profitable activities, planning for
their implementation, gender, women's leadership and management of microenterprises, processing and conservation of fruits and vegetables. With the last part of
this project, the women were supervised in the networking of their groups, with a
view to setting up mutual savings and credit schemes.
the National Agricultural Investment and Food Security Programme
(PNIASA)
610. It consists of three priority projects in which the gender approach is taken into
account. These are the Agricultural Development Support Project in Togo (PADAT),
the Agricultural Productivity Project in West Africa (WAAPP-Togo) and the
Agricultural Sector Support Project.
Multifunctional Platform Development Programme (PTFM)
611. Carried out by women's groups, this programme is an improved form of PSAEG
started in April 2009 with the support of UNDP. There is therefore the installation of
50 multifunctional platforms in 50 vulnerable localities for 50 women's groups, 9 in
the Maritime, 10 in the Plateaux, 9 in the Centrale, 10 in the Kara and 12 in the
Savanes.
169
Select target paragraph3
Connect to a paragraph
Connect to an entity
Disable highlights
Add to table of contents