view to facilitating mathematics and reading, 790.267 reading books and 2.199.878 mathematics books were supplied to pupils attending public primary schools in Togo. At the same time, 28.890 teaching guides for reading and 31.254 teaching guides for mathematics were distributed in all public schools. 278. From 2011 to 2012, more than 6.000 auxiliary teachers received catch-up training. In 2013, 5,000 volunteer teachers received an initial training. Each volunteer teacher trained received a training kit comprising a universal dictionary, conjugation, grammar, spelling and other books, among which were: Knowing How to Write and Grammatical Pitfalls. As part of improving school management, the COGEP (Committee for the Management of Primary Schools) was provided with training on several themes:      Community Procurement and Transparency; Organisation and Community Dynamics; Financial Management; Participatory Monitoring-Evaluation; Repair and Maintenance of School Infrastructure. 3. SECONDARY EDUCATION 279. Access rate to the first cycle of secondary education is 60% and the completion rate (ratio of new entrants in the 4th year of secondary 1 to the population with a theoretical age of entering into the last year of secondary 1) is 37%.This cycle records a gross schooling rate of 62%. 280. However, disparities related to gender and regions do exist. Access varies from 40% for girls in the Maritime Region to 78.8% for boys in the Kara Region for an average of 59.9%. The completion rate, the national average of which stands at 43.9% varies from 16.3% for girls in the Savannah region to 53.6% for boys in the Golfe-Lomé Region and the gender parity index for the GER is 0.75. In other words, for 100 boys, there is an average of 75 girls in Secondary 1. Table No. 17: Access Rate, Gross Enrolment Ratio and Completion Rate per gender and per region in the First Cycle of Secondary Education (2013-2014) Region Access Rate Gross Enrolment Completion Rate 82