Togo

Togo introduced laws on sickness and maternity and family allowances before independence in 1960, and laws on old age, disability and survivors and work injury after independence. In 2013, a social assistance programme named Travaux à Haute Intensité de Main d’Oeuvre (THIMO)—Labour-Intensive Public Works was started to increase participants’ resilience by providing them with employment and income-generating opportunities. The programme had 12,590 individual participants as at 2015, receiving a minimum of US$6.44 and maximum of US$10.73 biweekly. In 2013 a Cash Transfer Programme for Vulnerable Children in Northern Togo was introduced and as at 2015, the programme had 14,828 individual participants.