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Program of fight against pooverty
Togo underwent an economic crisis of more than four
consecutive years due to the political troubles, worsened by the devaluation
of CFA franc of 50 % in 1994. The consequences rising from this situation
felt on all the levels (state, companies, households), and especially
of the social layers with low incomes. It's within the framework of
a support for the economic revival of the country that the Association
initiated and launched its Campaign Against Poverty in Togo. The elaboration
of such program concerns our will to place human in the center of all
the actions of development and chosen a durable human development to
make a success of a humanly satisfactory community.
The program is based on a complete diagnosis of the current situation:
poverty in Togo is characterized primarily by the unemployment and the
weakness of the income of existing employment, which involves ipso facto
problems of access with food and a salubrious dwelling. Poverty touches
especially the rural zones with knowing the rural and country workers
as well as the underprivileged social groups. The strategy of this program
rests primarily on actions identified like having to contribute to the
agricultural development thus involving a reduction of poverty. The
increase of the agricultural production is the engine of the economic
development in the agricultural economics. The improvement of agricultural
production and the rural development are effective means to improve
the condition of poor population.
The Campaign Against Poverty initiated
by the Volunteers Without Borders pursues the following goals:
1-To Converge
Resources Towards Agriculture And The Rural Development:
The Association put a premium on the consultations
with the poor rural populations in the design, the development and the
evaluation of the programs and projects of development. The Association
supports the initiatives of development of resources for agriculture
and the rural development, the increase of the productivity, which will
lead to high rural incomes and which will improve food safety. Rural
education is done by the members of Association in collaboration with
Professors and Student graduate of Agronomy. The recipients of this
education are the small farmers and farmers. The goal of this education
is to make it possible to the farmers and small farm to have a better
knowledge of the farming techniques, agricultural methods, a better
land use, cultures and cattle. The policy agricultural economy of the
Association put a premium on: -
the training and control in the creation and the development of the
companies and micro companies; the information of the small farmers
and farmers on the possibilities and of sources of investments and of
finance.
- the promotion of the agricultural produce;
- the evaluation and management of the projects: The goal of this section
is to take along the small farmers and farmers to make increase their
income while passing by the creation of companies and micro companies
and by maintaining the development of those.
2-To Provide
The Complement Necessary To The Exchanges And The Farm Initiatives:
The programs of micro credit make
the credits accessible to the populations with low income, stimulating
the development of small companies .The Association develops an understanding
plan to provide an assistance of micro credit and will initiate new
efforts of micro credit to improve the capacity and the output of the
agricultural production. This plan includes :
a financial and institutional support for the small farmers and rural
contractors, the farm co-operatives thus farmers organisations; The
accord of micro credit to improve the agricultural productivity; this
plan will be made as follows:
- A -Study of the Country Project: By this study, the Administrator
of the Program of Micro Credit will note the subject of the project,
his importance and anticipated and potential results and the possibilities
of success of the project. The Micro Credit will be made if the Administrators
of the Programs Micro Credit and Rural Development consider the Project
Country acceptable and favourable according to following points': -
the realisation of the Project -the importance of the Project in the
development and the prosperity of the recipient and his community.
- B - Granting of the Micro Credit: After favourable judgement, the
Micro Credit will be granted and paid completely or partly according
to the required amount and the needs for the realisation of the project.
- C - Follow-up and institutional Support: After according the Micro
Credit, the Administrator of the Program Agricultural and Rural Development
will co-ordinate with the profit farmers of Micro Credit a strategy
of follow-up and support throughout the realisation of the project.
3-To establish
New Relations of investments:
The Association encourages and works
with the Institutions investing in the emergent developing countries
and markets to extend their co-operations and operations to the NGO
and the Voluntary Organisations which work directly with the rural populations.
- The Association can extend its services, including the loans and gifts
to serve the needs for the women, the small farmers and the small rural
companies.
This structure of private investment based on the concept of the participation
in the development recognizes the importance Organizations of farmers
and in the development and provides them the support necessary to their
development and prosperity. In addition to the main program of agricultural
development, the Association initiates three subroutine whose priority
activities also contribute them to the lowering of poverty.
4-Creation of Employment
and distribution of incomes to the profit of the populations low in
rural and urban areas:
In rural areas a series of activities was identified
referring itself: - with the improvement and the development of the
agricultural production, of breading and fishing; - with the rehabilitation/construction
of infrastructures of communication - with the .environment/forestry
for the safeguarding of the natural resources.
In urban areas a series of activities was identified referring itself:
- with the rehabilitation/construction school and medical infrastructures
- with the purification - with the creation of technological competencies
by programs of assistance with the young people without employment and
promotion of private enterprise.
5- Improvement
of social services to the poor populations:
One distinguishes here three components
with priority series of identified activities :health and the nutrition:
care of primary health, maternal and infantile health, nutrition and
hygiene, fight against the AIDS and the MST. The alimentation and the
purification: preparation of programs of social housing built with materials
local and accessible to the poor populations; cleansing with a support
with the creation of public WC- Basic Education, Elimination of illiteracy
and vocational training.
6 - Measurements
of accompanying to stabilize the fight against poverty:
This subroutine is primarily devoted to female promotion,
the underprivileged and vulnerable groups, the reinforcement of the
Community capacities and of frame of the basic initiatives. It covers
a formation of activities l referring to children, with the support
of the female groups, with the installation of data bases and mechanisms
of follow-up of poverty.
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