Affoum, NelsyDry, Marie2025-04-172025-04-172025-04-17https://hdl.handle.net/10986/43095This brief examines two reforms, enacted between 2012 and 2014, that lifted previous restrictions to women’s rights in Togo. Specifically, these limitations prevented women from choosing where to live, from getting a job without their husband’s permission, and from being named head of household in the same manner as men. The reforms to the persons and family code were driven by women’s civil society organizations engaging a wide variety of stakeholders, including the government and the international community. Together, these actors identified strategic agencies and stakeholders sympathetic to the overarching goal of gender equality in order to make greater gender equality a reality. This brief explores this process, while also indicating the remaining barriers to women’s full equality in Togo.en-USCC BY-NC 3.0 IGOGENDER EQUALITYWOMEN'S RIGHTSREFORMSPERSONS AND FAMILY CODECIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONSBriefWorld Bank10.1596/43095