Youth is tomorrow's workforce, as such young actors must be privileged socio-economic, cultural and political transformations in the country… However, the Togolese youth has paid a heavy price in the various social and political unrest the country has known for fifteen years.

In Togo, the education and schooling of children… is compulsory and free for all children two years of age to fifteen. This provision is included in the constitution of 14 October 1992.

Despite these provisions, the reality is quite different. Education is not free in Togo. The socio-political environment conducive to school provision (infrastructure, equipment, textbooks and teaching materials, teachers, etc...) no longer follows the growth of the demand for schooling and the education system is facing enormous difficulties in different sectors [...]

The causes of this deficiency are many:

• A chronic shortage of classrooms and overstaffing, especially in urban areas (80 to 120 students per class),

• A lack of textbooks and teaching materials,

• Insufficient and poor operation of laboratories and equipment,

• Colleges for General Education,

• A lack of effective structures of educational guidance and structures,

• Working conditions very unfavorable for the teachers and pupils.

• A lack of resources for the implementation of the training policy and training of teaching and administrative staff.

• A lack of resources allocated to education,

• A lack of teachers.

Financial resources have become very limited, estimates are major part devoted to staff salaries and to a lesser extent to the maintenance of equipment, subsidies and transfers.

In fact only 43% of schools have drinking water while the vast majority (90 %) had no electricity.

Low internal efficiency is also reflected by the low transition rate from primary to secondary school to higher education.

Technical education and vocational training for their part appear as poor parents in the education system when they should be the corridor of the integration of young people into working life.

Apart from the difficulties of education, technical education and training professional are not adapted to the realities of the country… The present educational system does little to prepare young people for the employment and self-employment markets.

Care facilities for young people is poor in the country and are supplemented by health centers [...]The attendance rate of health services for young people is very low. The causes are:

• Inadequate structures supported. According Divisions Information Statistical Studies and Research (DISER) of the Directorate General of Health, in 2002 national health infrastructure coverage is low because 40% of Togo are unable to access all components of essential care, 30 % continue to travel more than 5km or more than one hour's walk access to the nearest health facility.

• The lack of qualified personnel. Unequal distribution of observed available resources, which leads to serious disparities. In the city of Lomé, there are about 53 % of physicians, 42% of midwives and 26% of nursing while in some areas, more than 45% of the units are held by the unqualified personnel.

• The financial inaccessibility to health care. Most often, young people have knowledge limited their health which is summarized in the absence of disease and suffering physics. The psychological and social aspect is completely ignored.

The sector constraints, the most important are:

• Ignorance and/or unwillingness of parents vis-à -vis sexual education and offers of family planning services for young.

• The reluctance of young men to let their women use contraception.

• Inadequate structures to the needs of young people.

The current health situation does not allow for adequate care health young people who have huge health problems.

In 2005, of an estimated 2,700,000 potentially active citizens, the number of people in employment was about 1.8 million. A significant proportion of the population (between one quarter and one third) is excluded from any activity. 72% of jobs are in the agricultural sector, which offers only traditional jobs, precarious nature and with very little remunerative income from this sector, young people cannot be freed from rural poverty. Jobs more or less stable and remunerative represent only 6% of the total; 4% in the private sector and 2% in the public sector. The remaining 22% is provided by the informal sector, which employs the vast majority youth.

One of the characteristics of the Togolese population is its high growth rate. According to the results of Fourth General Census of Population and Housing conducted in 2010, the rate of Togolese population growth is 2.84%. Also one of the major implications of this growth is it’s extremely young population.

An examination of the age structure shows that the Togolese population is young: 43.0% less 15 years and only 3.3% are aged 65 and over. The population of working age (15 - 64) is 53.7%, and this figure is higher in urban areas (59.2%) than in rural areas (50.0%)… This high proportion of young people creates, as we should expect, enormous challenges in terms of care, particularly in terms of sustainable job creation and quality. However in Togo, multiple effects of the macroeconomic context of the 1980s and 1990s, characterized by the implementation of Structural Adjustment Programmes, the devaluation of CFA franc and the political crisis through the country, were not favorable decision initiatives on employment and poverty reduction.

Thus, as in most African countries, the overall employment situation in Togo remains very critical. We note indeed for several years an increasing rise in unemployment and underemployment affecting more severely youth.

Certainly, in recent years there has been a easing of the sociopolitical situation and dynamics of economic recovery, but the requirements for entry into the labor market, as well as the conditions for the exercise of a profession remain particularly difficult. Therefore, it is the young women and young men who continue to bear the brunt of imbalances on the labor market [...]

These guidelines have resulted in many government initiatives to promote the socio -economic integration of young people… However, despite efforts in the absence of a suitable reference framework, the actions suffer from lack of consistency and efficiency [...] It is recognized that a major handicap to the definition of policies and the development of an action plan therefore in favor of youth employment is the lack of reliable statistics on the situation, the key indicators for the youth employment is not known with certainty.