The National Agency for Grassroots Development Support (ANADEB), in collaboration with its partners: the World Bank and the French Development Agency (AFD), visited, in the municipalities of Grand Lomé, the registration points of vulnerable households wishing to benefit from cash transfers. This action, which is part of the implementation of additional financing activities for the Social Safety Nets and Basic Services (FSB) project in Lomé, enabled them to see firsthand the effectiveness of this operation.
Whether in the district of Agoutè Kpokpomé, in the Commune of Agoè Nyivé 6, of Fidokpui in Agoè Nyivé 4, of Atiégou in the Gulf 1, of Adamavo in the Gulf 6, of Nyékonapkoè in the Gulf 4, etc vulnerable populations, in this case women, were present, to register, in order to benefit from cash transfers. The objective of this operation is to provide poor households and communities with better access to basic socio-economic infrastructure, social safety nets and opportunities for economic inclusion. The specificity of this project is that it takes into account, this time, the urban environment. This is why Greater Lomé was selected for the pilot phase.
According to the Director General of the National Agency for Support to Grassroots Development (ANADEB), Ms. Mazalo Katanga, the project targets 45 poor neighborhoods in communes 1, 4 and 6 of Agoè Nyivé and Golfe. According to him, the identification of beneficiaries goes through several stages, namely: voluntary registration of categories of targeted households, survey of registered households, community validation of the results of the survey and registration of selected households. on the Novissi payment platform for issuing payments. Regarding voluntary registration and the household survey, she added that they are organized in two phases. First, the pilot phase which covers 10 neighborhoods and the scale-up phase which covers 35 neighborhoods. ” We are going to do the experiment in the six municipalities of Grand Lomé where we are going to accompany 45 districts. At the end of the registration and survey process, 26,250 beneficiaries will take part in the project “, she pointed out. For her, this project aims to increase the income and consumption of 125,000 targeted rural and urban households and therefore their ability to cope with shocks. To this end, it invited all the households of the 35 neighborhoods of the scale phase to register until April 11, and to prepare to welcome, in the following days, the INSEED survey agents.
For the social sectors project manager at AFD, Ms. Tatiana Maniez, this is an opportunity of paramount importance for them to come and see what is happening on the ground. ” We are delighted, the WB and the AFD, to support ANADEB in the field for this registration phase. We hear about it at meetings, but haven’t had a chance to visit yet. We have seen that it is a real success with many people and more particularly women who come to register voluntarily. We are sure that we will be able to target all the vulnerable people of Greater Lomé “, she added.
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