Togo

For some fifteen years the situation in Togo has been marked by a social and political impasse, economic and financial decline, growing poverty, donors' disengagement owing to the lack of democracy, and serious degradation of the environment and natural resources. Over the last two years, however, a clear determination to reverse this trend has emerged.

The Development Marketplace for the African Diaspora in Europe (D-MADE) is a competitive grant program aimed at funding innovative, small scale development projects which are profit-making, results-oriented and have the potential to be scaled up or replicated.

The program has two components:

The Government of Togo has implemented different recruitment mechanisms to attract qualified members from the diaspora who have scientific and technical skills and those who are interested in creating a Small or Medium enterprise.