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Report: women and micro-enterprises in Togo

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Afoua, processor of palm nuts into red oil in the Amlamé region, Togo.

After going through the tontine system in a village savings and credit association, Afoua joined a social microfinance service to start her micro-enterprise.

© Raphaëlle Constant

By: Raphaëlle Constant Follow |

Emmanuelle Bastide

1 min

The contribution of women to the African economy is well established.

Togo depends heavily on the informal sector, where 48% of activities are carried out by women.

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Even if more and more micro and small enterprises are run by women, they still come up against specific obstacles when they embark on entrepreneurship: problems of access to financing, socio-cultural obstacles, lack of confidence in they... Self-financing, informal and formal savings and credit associations or micro-credit agencies remain the main sources of financing for setting up a business.

This hinders their emergence and development. 

So what solutions exist to start your economic activity and especially to get out of the subsistence economy?

What strategy in Togo today for the development of women's entrepreneurship?

How to facilitate the transition of women from the formal economy to the formal sector? 

Raphaëlle Constant went to Lomé and Amlamé, in rural areas, to meet women entrepreneurs: seamstress, palm nut processor, young food entrepreneur or spice trader.

But also actors of the Togolese entrepreneurial sector: incubator of female startups, leadership coach and social microfinance service to understand where the ecosystem of female micro entrepreneurship in Togo is.

This show is a rerun from Friday, April 30, 2021

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