Togo

The project improves regional collaboration and strengthens socioeconomic and climate resilience in border-zone communities across northern Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, and Togo. Components include community infrastructure and services, institutional strengthening, and regional coordination and knowledge. Activities relevant to nature-based and green infrastructure include afforestation and tree nurseries, construction of small earth dams and ponds, and small irrigation canals and landscape restoration to support livelihoods and risk reduction 

The project was comprehensive, using insitutional capacity building and awareness raising of SLM for DRM, using community-based activities to restore and sustainably manage areas such as the restoration of natural waterways, reforestation of hillsides and watersheds and bush fire control (Savanna, Maritime and Kara regions). Community-Based activities in Cropland and Grazing Land included SLM best practices will be piloted and promoted in targeted areas.

The project objective was to strengthen institutional capacity of targeted institutions to manage the risk of flooding and land degradation in targeted rural and urban areas. The Government of Togo aimed to achieve objective through 1) community-based activities in watershed and flood-prone areas; 2) community-based activities in cropland and grazing lands; 3) community-based sustainable forest and wetland management; as well as 4) early warning, monitoring and knowledge systems and 5) institutional strengthening and awareness raising.