| dc.description.abstract | The Regional Technical Assistant, Dr. Nicolas Denormandie, was based at the Regional Coordination Unit of
PACE in Bamako (Mali). He was covering initially seven French-speaking countries within Western and Central
Africa, including 6 coastal countries (Guinea, Cote d'Ivoire, Togo, Benin, Gabon, and Congo) and 1 non-coastal
country: Central African Republic. Following a discussion between RTAs and the regional coordinator during the
CBPP meeting in Conakry (February 2004), a reshuffle of countries covered was set up. A switch between
Congo Brazzaville and Ghana was agreed upon. Then, from November 2004, an 8thcountry was added to the
RTA's coverage, namely Chad, following the reallocation of Dr Andrea Massarelli, former national TA, who
became the Eastern Africa Regional TA. Finally, following the departure in October 2005 of Dr. Hans Krebs from
the PACE project, who was in charge of 5 countries, the 2 RTAs of Bamako were requested to share the
remaining countries which they inherited for their new contracts (with a new coverage of 10 countries each).
Therefore the RTA was attributed 2 additional countries : Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea making a total of 10
countries | |
