Quality Promotion: The WAQSP trains the resource persons of Togolese private companies members of FOPAO, on the ISO 9001 version 2015 standard

From 22 to 24 May 2019, the West Africa Quality System Programme (WAQSP) initiated a training workshop for the benefit of about twenty resource persons from private companies’ members of the Federation of West African Employers’ Association (FWAEA). The work took place in the National Council of Employers of Togo with the effective presence of the representative of the European Union, the representative of the Minister in charge of quality and the representative of UNIDO at the opening ceremony.

At the opening of the works, on Wednesday, May 22, Mr. Coami Laurent TAMEGNON, President of the National Council of Employers of Togo, recalled that it was at the request of FWAEA companies that the WAQSP organized the workshop in collaboration with the Togolese Ministry of Trade, Industry, Private Sector Development and Promotion of Local Consumption. He informed that the workshop's objective was "... capacity building of private sector companies in quality management, including women-led enterprises and associations. Training on this standard is of paramount importance to our companies in the current context of accelerating change, increasing complexity and market hardening due to fierce competition, and ever-increasing demands from quality and safety ". For Mr. Koffi Vinyo MENSAH, Director of Private Sector Development and representing the Minister in charge of Quality, the Government of Togo is well aware of the challenges faced by national companies, and it is right that it had adopted, as of 2009, framework law n°2009-016/PR on the organization of the national scheme for the harmonization of standardization, accreditation, certification, accreditation, metrology activities and environmental protection and quality promotion in Togo. "This law suggests in its article 8: the introduction of the quality approach in the structures of the public administration and in those of the private sector", said the authority before inviting all the member companies of FWAEA to engage in the quality process, to participate in the Quality Award, which offers many advantages for companies. Finally, he expressed the gratitude of the Government to the European Union, the ECOWAS Commission and UNIDO for their valuable contribution to the development of quality in Togo.

At the end of the training, the participants stated that they had developed quality management skills with the promise of becoming more involved in the quality process and competing in the Togolese Quality Award for future editions.

This program is funded by the European Union with the technical support of UNIDO, the implementing Agency

The views expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect those of the Commision of the European Union

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Quality Promotion: The WAQSP trains the resource persons of Togolese private companies members of FOPAO, on the ISO 9001 version 2015 standard | ECOWAQ

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