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Togo

WFP Togo Country Brief, February 2025

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In Numbers

  • 20,864 people supported with emergency food assistance through e-vouchers

  • 15,718 school children assisted with hot nutritious meals

  • US$ 6.8 million six-month net funding requirements (Mar – Aug 2025)

Operational Updates

• The October 2024 Cadre Harmonisé analysis indicates that 621,723 people face severe acute food insecurity (IPC 3+). Projections for June–August 2025 suggest that 624,560 people may experience emergency levels of acute food insecurity if no assistance is provided.

• The northernmost Savanes region is the worst affected by emergency levels of acute food insecurity. Between October and December 2024, 175,063 people face a crisis and emergency levels acute food insecurity (IPC 3+), representing 14.3 percent of the total population of the region with 225,129 people projected to reach these levels by June–August 2025.

• The spillover of the Sahel conflict has caused an influx of refugees into Northern Togo and has internally displaced thousands of people. Overall, 41,939 refugees and asylum seekers and 10,171 IDPs have been identified and/or registered by the Government and UNHCR as of February 2025.

Emergency Food and Nutrition Assistance

• In February 2025, WFP completed the final cycle of its three-month e-voucher pilot phase and launched a new three-month cycle in the Savanes region. The final cycle of the pilot phase supported 10,862 individuals, including refugees, internally displaced persons, and host communities. To prevent malnutrition, Super Cereal Plus was also distributed to 669 children aged 6 to 23 months and 480 pregnant and breastfeeding women and girls during this cycle. The first cycle of the new three-month phase reached 10,002 individuals across the Tône and Cinkassé prefectures, with refugees accounting for 60 percent of the beneficiaries