Presidential custodians: H.E. Bola Ahmed Tinubu, President of Nigeria, and H.E. Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé, President of the Togolese Republic.
This brief now sits inside the wider SPS operating model rather than defining it. Its relevance is in showing how a difficult cross-border theatre can still be organised around production, logistics, and jobs rather than crisis management alone.
The operational emphasis is modular industrialisation: agribusiness corridors, agroforestry, social housing, and adjacent digital infrastructure that can widen livelihoods and reduce the economic precarity that fuels insecurity.