The project in the Good Governance / Decentralization sector aims to strengthen secondary cities (Phase I: Zio, Kloto, Tchaoudjou, Phase II: Zio, Kloto, Tchaoudjou): Ogou, Lacs, Sotouboua, Koza, Tône) through the promotion of local economic circuits, particularly through the sustainable operation of the economic infrastructure made available, and to improve local governance in order to help supply the population of the three cities with economic infrastructure, basic public services and political participation at the communal level, so that they become regional growth poles and contribute to improving the living conditions of the populations.

This project of the German Financial Cooperation (FC) consists of three main components:

1. Construction or rehabilitation of priority economic infrastructures already identified for the first phase, especially markets and / or bus stations (in project management delegated by AGETUR-TOGO);
2. Capacity building and support to communal administrations and other relevant local actors, closely coordinated with GIZ, in the following areas: project identification and participatory infrastructure planning (through a local coordination committee and an innovative citizen-based monitoring-evaluation system), execution of calls for tenders, project management (in project ownership assisted by the Consultant for Communal Infrastructure), technical control, supervision and control of works, revenue generation and collection, financial management and control, implementation, management, operation and sustainable maintenance through examples of infrastructure financed by the German Financial Cooperation;
3. Creation and animation of a sustainable innovative citizen-based monitoring-evaluation system to promote transparency and accountability of communal administrative procedures as well as local participation. In concrete terms, citizens are invited by the local radio to send messages on certain communal themes (to be defined by the local coordination committee) via SMS, or by calling a central number.