Table 1 List of Training Courses organised in Health Systems Research by WAHO from 2008 to 2012 in ECOWAS countries
Title | Training of researchers and managers of national programmes in health systems research methodology | Training of researchers and programme managers in Liberia and Sierra Leone in health systems research methodology | Training of health actors in Guinea Bissau in health systems research methodology | Training of health actors in Guinea Bissau in health systems research methodology | Training of Liberian researchers and programme managers in health systems research methodology |
Description | Five days of training in writing health systems research protocols | Five days of training in writing health systems research protocols | Five days of training in writing health systems research protocols | Five days of training in writing health systems research protocols | Five days of training in writing health systems research protocols |
Training period | November 2008, 3 to 7 | November 2009, 2 to 6 | March 2012, 22 to 26 | June 2012, 11 to 15 | December 2012 |
Place of training | Bobo, WAHO headquarters | Banjul, Gambia, CIAM headquarters | Bissau, INASA Headquarter | Lomé, Epidemiology Directorate | Gbanrga, Liberia |
Training language | English, French | English | Portuguese | French | English |
Number of trainees | 30 | 6 | 16 | 20 | 12 |
Trainees profile | Programme managers and researchers from the 14 ECOWAS countries | Liberia and Sierra Leone Researchers and programme Officers | Health workers (doctors, nurses, laboratory technicians, sociologist) | Health workers (doctors, biologists, nurses) | Researchers and programme officers Liberia |
Training materials | WHO/IDRC Document | Social and economic research in tropical diseases resource paper no.3. (TDR/SER/RP/94.2) | INASA Document | WHO/IDRC Document | Social and economic research in tropical diseases resource paper no.3. (TDR/SER/RP/94.2) |
Trainers | Research Director Senior Researcher | Two researchers working in a research institution and a financial manager | Six national researchers | Research Director Senior Researcher | Two researchers working in a research institution |
Training cost | 76,873 US $ | 24,153 US $ | 29,057 US$ | 33,142 US$ | 30,630 US$ |