Hiring of PGS local coordinators

The hiring of PGS advisors took place in Burkina Faso, Togo, Ghana and Sao Tome and Principe. In Ghana a call for the position was sent out after the PGS initial training in June 2018. In Sao Tome a call for the position was sent out after the PGS training in May and the selection process was finalised in August 2018. In Burkina Faso, it was agreed to cooperate with CNABIO who is coordinating the existing functional PGS initiative. CNABio subsequently added another member to the existing PGS team. In Togo, Lazare Yombi from Benin was hired as a consultant to deliver the initial PGS Training. After the training, he continued to be employed as a consultant to perform assessments of the most promising PGS initiatives. Subsequently, also in Togo the recruitment process was finalised, with the employment of a local PGS Advisor completed by December 2018. Currently, in all four project countries the of PGS advisors recruitment process has been finalised.