Simfeitcheou PRE, PhD Chief of Staff, Office of the Prime Minister Chief Economist (TOGO)

1. China-Africa Poverty Reduction and Development Seminar— China’s SEZs and Poverty Reduction=================================== COUNTRY PRESENTATION Simfeitcheou PRE, PhD Chief of Staff, Office of the Prime Minister Chief Economist (TOGO) Shenzhen, China January 7-13, 2012

2. Plan • Context and makingof Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP) • Poverty traits • Pillars of Stratefy for Poverty Reduction – Complet e (SRP-C) • Framework and financingstrategy • Instutitionalframework and monitoring, implementation and setting up mechanisms

3. Context and making ofPRSP • With the Strategyfor Poverty Reduction – Provisional (SPR-P), Togo has made new tieswith international cooperation and gotfrom IMF a program FPRG (Facility of Poverty Reductionand Growth) • The SPR-P has allowed to achieve the decision point of the HIPC initiative in november 2008

4. Context and making ofPRSP(continued) • The PRSP-C will enable the achieving of the decision point of the HIPC initiative • The PRSP-C will enable also to benefit from important ex Multilateral Debt Alleviation Initiative (IADM) • The PRSP-C will be the federating hub for the country development actions

5. Context and making of the PRSP-C(continued) • Participative Process at three levels • Level one : roadmap • Level two : diagnostic (contributions and regions, GTR) • Level three : concertation for finalizing the PRSP-C (actual stage)

6. Poverty traits • Three approaches to poverty: monetary, non monetary and perception of poverty by people • Monetary approach : level of poverty • *Per adult and per year

7. Poverty trait Monetary Approach of poverty (coninued): Savanes Region the poorest with an incidence of 90,5%, followed by Centrale Region (77,7%), Kara Region (75%), Maritime Region, (69,4%), Plateaux Region (56,2%) and Lomé-Golfe (24,5%)

8. Poverty trait (continued) • non monetary Approach : based on the access to basic social facilities such as education, healthcare water and sanitation • Poverty Perception by people : • « Poverty is the inability of individuals to meet the basic needs related to food healthcare, education, water ,clothing and housing .»

9. Pillars of SRP-C • Four pillars : • Strengthening of governance; • consolidation of bases for a strong and lasting growth; • Capacity building; • Narrowing regional gaps and promotion of grassroots development

10. Piliers de la SRP-C (suite) • 1st pillar : strenghtening of governance (4 major fields) • Strenghtening of political governance • Promotion of corporate governance • Setting up of administrative reform • Strenghtening of economic governance

11. Pillars of SRP-C (continued) • 2nd pillar : consolidation of the bases for a strong and lasting growth • (9 major fields) • Strengthening of structural reforms • Betterment of the doing business • promotion of sources of growth • development of infrastructures backing growth

12. Pillars SRP-C • 2nd pillar : (continued) • Strenghtening regional integration  • Efficacious management of natural resources, environment and life living conditions  • Sharing of growth fruits • Job creation  • Research promotion

13. Pillars of SRP-C (continued) • 3rd pillar :capacity building(5 major fields) • promotion of education system and training   • Development of healthcare System • Betterment of people feedingquality • Betterment of potable water access and sanitation infrastructures • promotion of genderequity and social protection

14. Pillars of SRP-C (continued) • 4thpillar :narrowingregional gaps and grassrootsdevelopment (2 major fields) • Strenghtening of local governance • promotion of local dynamics; • promotion of participative planning of local development • Strengthening of resources mobilisation for the financing of local development

15. Pillars of SRP-C (continued) • 4th pillar : (continued) • Development of regional and local capacities • Balanced Emergence of development poles • Valuing balanced capacity building • Strenghtening of balanced infrastructures of growth sustenance • Project and development programmes spacialisation

16. Framework and financingstrategy Evolution of main aggregates per scenario

17. InstutionalFramework and setting up, monitoring and assessmentmechanisms • The institutional framework of setting up and and monitoring gives room to setting up of various committees and structures namely regional and local committees of participative monitoring

18. National Council of Development Policies and Fight against poverty Chairman : Prime Minister National Assembly State-Donors Committee Interministerial Commitee in charge of Policies to fight against Poverty Chairman :Minister of Finances Network of OSC for monitoring and assessment of DSRP/MDG Technical board running the DSRP Chairman :General Secretary Ministry of Finances Vice chairman: Development Managing Director Permanent TechnicalSecretariat of DSRP (headed by a technicalsecretary) Regional committee of participative monitoring (headed by upcoming governors) Local Committees of participative monitoring (headed by upcoming mayors) Sectorial Committees of DSRP (headed by Ministry’s General Secretary) Instutional Framework and setting up, monitoring and assessmentmechanisms

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