The RED approach is a common-sense package for doing that, but in too many countries "doing RED" has become a meaningless mantra, reduced to a one-off training exercise focusing only on the micro-planning component of the approach.
As a one-off training, it is difficult to establish whether the trained teachers are now totally immersed in the required gender skills and are systematically applying the approach in all curricular and extra-curricular activities.
Draseika, whose salary has tripled since he first joined the scheme, has nothing but praise for Workplace's approach: "It's not just one-off training and then they try to get rid of you.
Whether the doses were given throughout the year or concentrated in three months, a one-off training would be held each year for those involved in delivering IPT.
It would also imply regular, as opposed to one-off, training and preparedness measures.
This underscores the need for reinforcing mechanisms to sustain change in providers' behaviour since a one-off training program is not sufficient [ 38].
Furthermore, capacity building is often delivered as one-off training and, without follow-up assistance and mentoring, skills and knowledge acquired during training can be quickly lost.
Five-day one-off training in educational planning and statistics is not enough to build necessary planning capacity of POE and DOE staff.
This suggests that one-off training sessions have not been very effective in sustaining providers' knowledge and good practices, and continuous education and mentoring may therefore be needed [ 27].
Recommendations to introduce the concepts early in the medical course, then using and reinforcing throughout the course is in-line with findings that early one-off training is associated with later poor knowledge [ 16].
The Blue Box has been introduced to teachers with a "one-off" training with little or no follow-up support or replenishment of supplies as they are worn out or lost.
