Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if her Department will make an assessment of the access that women and girls have to education in Togo.

Girls in Togo have lower enrolment rates than boys and are more likely to drop out of schooling. The Togolese Government's education strategy up to 2025 is focused on achieving universal primary education, extending coverage in rural and poor communities, reducing illiteracy, and developing quality secondary, technical, vocational, and higher education courses.

The UK Government was pleased to welcome the President of Togo, Faure Gnassingbé, to the UK in 2021 for the Global Education Summit, which raised $4 billion to support the education of vulnerable children worldwide. An upcoming education conference in December, being organised by UK education stakeholders in Lomé, will bring together key education players from the UK and across West Africa to discuss ways of ensuring that education systems meet the future needs of the 21st Century.