Togo: Mining Governance and Development Project

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The development objective of the First Phase of the Mining Governance and Development Project for Togo is to streamline the institutional arrangements of key organizations in the extractive industries to strengthen their efficiency and accountability for effective management of the sector. The project comprises of three components. The first component, mining governance, transparency, oversight, and efficiency will support enhanced management and monitoring of mineral development activities in Togo, starting from licensing of initial exploration activities to supervision of mining and eventual mine closure. It consists of following six sub-components: (i) mining cadastre and national geological database; (ii) transaction advisory services for assessment of mineral development proposals; (iii) mineral production monitoring and oversight; (iv) organizational development of the ministry of mines and energy (MME); (v) strengthening of corporate governance structures of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in the mining industry; and (vi) management of artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM). The second component, environmental, social, and economic development from mining operations objective is to support conditions for mining sector activities to contribute to sustainable socioeconomic development. It consists of following three sub-components: (i) higher education sector support and public access to information about mineral development; (ii) environmental and social management of mining operations and support to community development platforms; and (iii) infrastructure and economic linkages from mining. The third component, project management and coordination, including preparatory project financing will support the project implementation unit (PIU), based in the MME, in the management of fiduciary, disbursement, monitoring and evaluation (M and E), and other project implementation activities.