The World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Advocacy and Training in Pharmacovigilance is in charge of advocating for Pharmacovigilance to Ministries of Health and other Health entities across Africa. Our main objective is to provide training in pharmacovigilance to health care personnel and providing technical support to assist countries and institutions in improving PV systems. The centre is situated in Accra, the capital of Ghana. Terms of reference: • Training in pharmacovigilance in African countries for building and strengthening of spontaneous adverse drug reaction reporting systems • Advocacy for pharmacovigilance across Africa either alone or in collaboration with WHO • Promoting the integration of pharmacovigilance into public health programmes • Technical support to national pharmacovigilance centres • Support in communication and crisis management to national pharmacovigilance centres • Acquisition (from WHO, UMC) and distribution of needed literature and technical tools to national pharmacovigilance centres and governments • Research in pharmacovigilance including cohort event monitoring of specified medicines • Assistance in the development and maintenance of pregnancy registers