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Togo

WFP Togo Country Brief, March 2025

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In Numbers

10,128 people supported with emergency food assistance through e-vouchers

14,961 school children assisted with hot nutritious meals

US$ 8 million six-month net funding requirements (April – Sept 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 faced 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, 43,342 refugees and asylum seekers and 10,171 IDPs have been identified and/or registered by the Government and UNHCR as of 31 March 2025.

Emergency Food and Nutrition Assistance

• The second phase of the three-month e-voucher project was conducted from 18-20 March across five localities in the Savanes region. This cycle reached 10,128 individuals with refugees accounting for 60 percent of the beneficiaries. A total of XOF 81,163,038 ($ 140,664) was distributed in e-vouchers.

• An analysis of retailers’ transactions during the two last e-voucher distributions revealed that 92 percent of the purchases made by beneficiaries were for rice, oil, pasta and beans.