What works in Togo
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Evidence snapshot for Togo
Togo has pioneered AI-targeted digital cash transfers to reach its poorest citizens: Novissi used machine-learning models trained on satellite imagery and mobile-phone data to enrol 138,500+ people and disburse ~US$10 million in emergency COVID aid, improving targeting precision by 42% over simple geographic targeting, though this approach still produced 9–35% higher exclusion errors than a full social registry would and excluded anyone without a mobile phone. A successor programme, ASTRE, is now scaling these methods across a permanent social-protection platform, targeting 700,000 households initially and 1.24 million people by 2029. On political representation, Togo's 2013 Electoral Code mandates gender parity in candidate lists (50%), yet women's National Assembly representation rose only gradually from 16.5% in 2018 to 18.6% in 2024, showing that a parity mandate without enforcement mechanisms delivers slow rather than transformative gains.
Drawn from: Novissi: AI-Targeted Digital Cash Transfers and Togo's ASTRE Social Registry · Novissi — AI-targeted emergency cash transfers in Togo · Legislated Gender Parity in Candidate Lists — Togo's 2013 Electoral Code (Article 220)
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Evaluation evidence +0.67
Evidence of impact / measured public value +0.402
Innovation level +0.344
Documented learning +0.276
Demonstrated reach +0.265
Transferability / demonstrated replication +0.229
Sustainability (ongoing) +0.186
Impact on gender equality +0.173
Transparency, fairness & accountability +0.12
Gender-mainstreaming embedding +0.098
Weaknesses
Efficiency -0.517
Curator validation -0.75
Effectiveness -0.811
Evaluated outcomes -0.837
Top good practices here
Novissi: AI-Targeted Digital Cash Transfers and Togo's ASTRE Social Registry · 100
Novissi — AI-targeted emergency cash transfers in Togo · 80
Legislated Gender Parity in Candidate Lists — Togo's 2013 Electoral Code (Article 220) · 52
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