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| Workshop on stakeholders’ capacity building on "Gender and Water" Concept |
With financial support from Both ENDS, ANCE organised a workshop entitled WORKSHOP ON STAKEHOLDERS’ CAPACITY BUILDING ON "GENDER AND WATER" CONCEPT this Tuesday, May 25, 2010 in the Conference room of the Ministry of Environment. This workshop was attended by several NGOs, departmental organisations and research organisations.
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Workshop on stakeholders’ capacity building on "Gender and Water" concept
With financial support from Both ENDS, ANCE organised a workshop entitled WORKSHOP ON STAKEHOLDERS’ CAPACITY BUILDING ON "GENDER AND WATER" CONCEPT this Tuesday, May 25, 2010 in the Conference room of the Ministry of Environment.
This workshop was attended by several NGOs, departmental organisations and organisations related to the civil society.
During the workshop two (2) communications were presented, namely:
- Gender and gender construction mechanism
- Right to water internationally and in Togo
The first presentation focused on "gender and construction mechanism" and was presented by Professor NUBUKPO Komlan, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Lome and former Minister of Tertiary Education and Scientific Research of Togo.
The second presentation focused on the "Right to water internationally and in Togo." This communication was presented by Mr. Ebeh Kodjo Fabrice, Director of ANCE-Togo.
This workshop was also attended by Mr. Martin Hoogland, a representative of Both ENDS in Holland.
Each communication was followed by a debate which led the participants to ask questions and give their views on the theme of the workshop. A total of three (3) working groups have been formed to fully apprehend the theme of the workshop and contribute to the establishment of an action plan on the right to water Togo.
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- ANCE launches the biodiversity forum in West Africa
ANCE-Togo organizes a biodiversity forum in West Africa from August 18 to 21, 2010 at Hotel IBIS in Lome, Togo. This forum will group together about 70 participants from the 15 West Africa countries. Participants will be representatives of NGOs, research institutions, agencies and government institutions and sub-regional institutions such as ECOWAS, WAEMU, ECOWAS Investment Bank, the United Nations Organisations based in West Africa as UNDP.
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ANCE launches the biodiversity forum in West Africa
Many crops such as such as millet (Pennisetum glaucum), sorghum (Sorghum bicolor), African rice (Oryza glaberrima), cowpea (Vigna unguiculata), bambara bean (Vigna subterranea), yams (Dioscorea cayenensis-rotundata, Dioscorea dumetorum, Dioscorea bulbifera), fonio (Digitaria exilis) and many others (Abelmoschus esculentus, Citrullus lanatus, Solenostemon rotundifolius) originate from West Africa.
Other plant species introduced from America as maize (Zea mays), groundnut (Arachis hypogea), cocoa (Theobroma cacao), sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) or form Asia as banana (Musa spp), mango (Mangifera indica), taro (Colocasia esculenta) and rice (Oryza sativa) have developed new characters.
Many tree species, medicinal plants and other wild species similar to cultivated forms are also endemic. One could cite for example: Andansonia digitata, Butyrospermum paradoxum, Balanites aegyptiaca, Dacryodes edulis, Faidherbia albida, Irving gabonensis, Parkia biglobosa, Tamarindus indica, Cola sp, Blighia sapida, etc...
Other herbaceous wild species are endemic in the sub-region: deflexa Brachiaria, Panicum laetum, Dactyloctenium aegyptium, Paspalum scrobiculatum, Oryza barthii, Cenchrus biflorus, Digitaria iburua, Echinochla stagnina while others are used as traditional vegetable leaves: Hibiscus , Solanum, Amaranthus, Celosia, Corchorus etc..
Experiences of biodiversity conservation since the colonial period have produced disadvantageous even disappointing results. That is why botanists in Sahelian countries during their workshop on "The flora, vegetation and biodiversity", held in Senegal in 1998, recommended that consideration be given to appropriate strategies to ensure preservation in situ or ex situ of plant species for which the pressure is too high (Ba et al., 1998). In this sense, plans and projects have been developed in several countries. Many studies have been conducted on traditional uses of plant resources by the populations, the roles of the different actors involved and the socio-cultural practices transmitted from generation to generation aiming at balancing the needs of genetic resources use by human being and the need for their preservation.
Four main reasons are the basis of the loss of biological diversity in West Africa. These are anthropogenic causes, legal causes, institutional causes, scientific causes.
a) The main anthropogenic causes are population growth, traditional practices of agriculture, bush fires, overexploitation of biological resources, poaching, habitats destruction etc… Natural causes such as climate changes, silting up of rivers result from these anthropic causes, etc…
b) At legal level, the causes of the loss of biological diversity are: the character sometimes inappropriate, incoherences, inadequate and the poor or non-enforcement of laws, laws and regulations relating to natural resource management.
c) At institutional level, there are few qualified officers operating in the field of biological diversity in West Africa. It is also regrettable to note a lack of coordination and synergy between the existing technical services in the different sectors and which responsibilities are poorly defined.
d) There are shortcomings in the knowledge of the Togolese biological diversity elements, but also a shortcoming of impact studies for development projects likely to affect biodiversity.
To resolve this increased loss of diversity in West Africa, several actions are conducted by both NGOs and the government to promote conservation and sustainable management of natural resources and promote sustainable development. But the results of these different initiatives don’t seem to turn out as well as they might have because of the absence of an open and democratic exchange of information and discussion framework. Especially, at the level of NGOs, the actions are isolated and the experiences results are not shared between the different stakeholders. There isn’t also any favourable framework to show the convincing results of researches on biodiversity, the results of conservation actions, etc. To overcome these shortcomings, it becomes urgent to promote information sharing and the coordination of activities among organisations of the civil society, States, private companies and development partners working in the field of biological diversity in Africa West. This first forum is held under the theme "Biological diversity and Sustainable Development in West Africa".
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- Hippopotamuses threatened for disappearance in Togo
 Losing habitat is the first factor which threatens survival of hippopotamuses in the low- plain of Mono. Farmers increasingly transform the natural wetlands landscape for farming. The floodplain is systematically leveled; fallow is burned in the dry season for food crop, market gardening and exploitation for sugar cane, palm oil tree and teak. Thus, migration ways of hippopotamuses are cultured and forests galleries which are other shelters of hippopotamuses along the river are destroyed for their ligneous resources and for space.
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Hippopotamuses threatened for disappearance in Togo
Losing habitat is the first factor which threatens survival of hippopotamuses in the low- plain of Mono. Farmers increasingly transform the natural wetlands landscape for farming. The floodplain is systematically leveled; fallow is burned in the dry season for food crop, market gardening and exploitation for sugar cane, palm oil tree and teak. Thus, migration ways of hippopotamuses are cultured and forests galleries which are other shelters of hippopotamuses along the river are destroyed for their ligneous resources and for space.
Night fishing activities occur in the rivers and they are also major causes of stress for hippopotamuses. Hippopotamuses have difficulty to survive when the natural habitat becomes dominated by farms and fishing.
Conversely, hippopotamuses damage harvests few times ago. This damage is intense in the rainy season, a period in which hippopotamus disperse in the floodplain. Surveys conducted by ANCE in 2005 in the region enabled to assess the damage caused by hippopotamuses to harvests annually. Damage to cassava, cotton and maize was assessed along the river. Cotton represents the most destroyed crop followed by maize and cassava. Palm oil tree, taro, tomato, onion and pepper are also destroyed by animals. Farm data show that a high percentage of harvests (30 to 70%) is destroyed within the first 100 meters from the river. Hippopotamuses also frequently destroy nets and other fishing traps that are set on their way or in the aquatic vegetation during their pasture
Several people reported that they have been pursued by hippopotamuses in the river once at least during fishing while navigating during the same survey, waterway constituting the most used transport mode through the border. Sometimes, hippopotamuses’ migration ways cross roads and this also causes several accidents. These recurrent conflicts will drive residents to kill hippopotamuses and thus threaten the survival of these animals already threatened with drastic reduction of their vital spaces. If a solution is not found, hippopotamuses will disappear in Togo about 2025.
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- Information workshop on the impacts of Bt cotton
 More than twenty participants from institutions of the Ministry of Agriculture Livestock and Fisheries, Ministry of Health, Ministry of High School and Research; the Togolese Institute of Agricultural Research (ITRA), the Institute of Technical Support Council (ICAT), the New Togolese Cotton Company (NSTC), NGOs working with farming organizations and a dozen journalists attended a workshop entitled "Awareness workshop on the environmental and socioeconomic impacts of Bt cotton” this Friday, January 22, 2010 in the large conference room of the Ministry of the Environment.
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Information workshop on the impacts of Bt cotton
More than twenty participants from institutions of the Ministry of Agriculture Livestock and Fisheries, Ministry of Health, Ministry of High School and Research; the Togolese Institute of Agricultural Research (ITRA), the Institute of Technical Support Council (ICAT), the New Togolese Cotton Company (NSTC), NGOs working with farming organizations and a dozen journalists attended a workshop entitled "Awareness workshop on the environmental and socioeconomic impacts of Bt cotton” this Friday, January 22, 2010 in the large conference room of the Ministry of the Environment.
During the workshop, four (04) papers were presented namely:
• The first paper entitled "Quote on GMOs" aimed to refresh the memory of the participants on the context of GMOs.
• The second paper focused on "the socioeconomic impacts of Bt cotton"
• The third paper which theme was "the environmental impacts of Bt cotton growing"
• The last paper called "Bt Cotton and biosafety"
A discussion followed each paper and it led the participants to ask questions and give their views on the theme of the workshop. For most participants, it became necessary for an inventory to be made to know the situation of cotton growing in Togo and the level of various scientific researches in this field. It is therefore necessary to make a comparative study of Bt cotton and conventional cotton that is grown in Togo. This study will enable to see what decision Togo must take.
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- Towards the creation of a forum on mangroves in Togo
 With financial support from IUCN-NL, ANCE organised several consultative meetings with stakeholders in charge of conservation and sustainable management of mangrove resources in Togo. The first meeting took place in June 24, 2009 and the in last December 29, 2009. These meetings brought together around the table about fifteen actors in charge of the restoration and sustainable management of mangrove ecosystems and associated wetlands formations. The actions taken so far by the various stakeholders have always been isolated initiatives without their specificities or their results are not necessarily provided. The theme was therefore “information”. These meetings were discussion meetings on the possibility to establish a partnership between stakeholders and the need to improve interactions and data exchange between different stakeholders.
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Towards the creation of a forum on mangroves in Togo
With financial support from IUCN-NL, ANCE organised several consultative meetings with stakeholders in charge of conservation and sustainable management of mangrove resources in Togo. The first meeting took place in June 24, 2009 and the in last December 29, 2009. These meetings brought together around the table about fifteen actors in charge of the restoration and sustainable management of mangrove ecosystems and associated wetlands formations. The actions taken so far by the various stakeholders have always been isolated initiatives without their specificities or their results are not necessarily provided. The theme was therefore “information”. These meetings were discussion meetings on the possibility to establish a partnership between stakeholders and the need to improve interactions and data exchange between different stakeholders.
These meetings brought together around the table about fifteen actors in charge of the restoration and sustainable management of mangrove ecosystems and associated wetlands formations. The actions taken so far by the various stakeholders have always been isolated initiatives without their specificities or their results are not necessarily provided. The theme was therefore “information”. These meetings were discussion meetings on the possibility to establish a partnership between stakeholders and the need to improve interactions and data exchange between different stakeholders.
These meetings have perfectly fulfilled the expectations of everyone and have been very rich in information on the policies of each partner for the protection of mangrove ecosystems. The most encouraging is to see the motivation shown by all parties, although their field of intervention is not necessarily related to mangroves.
The available tracks to have an in-depth debate of partnership have been generally accepted and even approved. The debates were particularly constructive to clarity the terms of the partnership.
Do not forget that the list of participants is not exhaustive. It can be completed when the foundations of the partnership will be clearly defined. However, it is appropriate to retain a limited number of participants for the meetings (15 people maximum) and this to avoid dissipation of the debate.
To give a time for reflection before making the initial decisions, it was decided to hold another meeting on December 29, 2009 at 9am. It will be held once again at the headquarters of ANCE.
ANCE thanked the organisations that responded to its invitation and congratulated each of them for the motivation they have shown. We recall that our aim is not to be put forward, but to organise a common policy of NGOs involved in the fight for sustainable management of mangroves.
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- ANCE-TOGO makes pressure for adoption of the law on tobacco control.
 ANCE-Togo organized this Friday, December 11, 2009 a press conference on the topic “The National Assembly must vote the bill regulating the production, marketing and consumption of tobacco products in Togo”. This press conference was organized at Hôtel Ibis in Lome with the financial support of CTFK and it knew the participation of 52 journalists coming from the public and private media of Togo.
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ANCE-TOGO makes pressure for adoption of the law on tobacco control.
ANCE-Togo organized this Friday, December 11, 2009 a press conference on the topic “The National Assembly must vote the bill regulating the production, marketing and consumption of tobacco products in Togo”. This press conference was organized at Hôtel Ibis in Lome with the financial support of CTFK and it knew the participation of 52 journalists coming from the public and private media of Togo.
The purpose of this press conference was to make pressure on the National Assembly of Togo for adoption of the national law on tobacco control. Indeed, since April 16, 2008 the Togolese Council of Ministers had adopted the bearing bill regulating the production, marketing and consumption of tobacco products in Togo. This bill was sent to the National Assembly for study and adoption. But this bill did not integrate all the relevant provisions of the FCTC. This is why ANCE made a lobbying near the National Assembly to stop its adoption. With the financial and technical support of CTFK, this bill was revised and today it meets the international standards on tobacco control.
ANCE and all its partners urge the National Assembly to adopt this law before the end of December 2009.
According to the Executive Coordinator of ANCE, Dr Ebeh Kodjo, tobacco kills hundreds of Togolese citizens each year. The prevailing rate of tobacco addiction among young people is 14% and generally, the prevailing rate of tobacco addiction in Togo is 31,3%. Moreover, the illicit trade of tobacco products makes Togo lose more than 15 billion francs CFA each year.
The adoption of this national law on tobacco control by the National Assembly enables to save human lives and promote sustainable development of our country.
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