We recommend that research and capacity building aiming to prepare for PES-schemes embrace a wider range of local knowledge and understandings of ecosystem functions than those immediately considered for payment schemes.
Within the health system, capacity building aims to strengthen skills, knowledge, resources and existing infrastructures in order to more effectively tackle challenges or problems [ 2].
This research has an increasing social science component, and a strong capacity building component, aiming to enable better management of resources at the district level to improve the livelihoods of the rural poor.
It aims to promote capacity building for, and the dissemination and impact of, research both on and for policy [ 20].
National level: analysis and reporting National level: analysis and reporting Scope: The aim of capacity building workshops is to enable participants to gain skills to do equity analysis and/or to interpret equity data, and to incorporate these practices into health priority setting.
Mentoring was a key capacity building activity on the project and this was aimed at strengthening the skills and competency of the participants to conduct advocacy programme.
Indeed, of the 14 structures in charge of R4H represented, 7 had participated in a multi-country project and 6 had taken part in networking activities on a routine basis with the aim of fostering capacity building.
National EPI's function as a series of inter-related components (i.e. vaccine supply and quality, surveillance, management, communication and advocacy, logistics and capacity building) that aim to improve immunisations coverage and reduce child morbidity and mortality [ 3].
A declared aim of both surveys was local capacity building.
This study aims to evaluate a team-based approach to research capacity building (RCB) in primary health using a validated quantitative measure of research capacity in individual, team and organisation domains.
