The cross-sectoral research priority setting process consisted of a 'training-of-trainers' workshop, a demonstration workshop, and seven priority setting workshops delivered to representatives from public and private research and development institutions, universities, non-governmental organizations, and other agencies affiliated to COSTECH.
To ensure coherence across these workshops, it was decided to start off with a training-of-trainers workshop, training the facilitators of the eight planned sectoral workshops.
Over 60 participants attended the demonstration workshop, including 15 participants from the training-of-trainers workshop.
To augment the standard capacity building workshop, complementary 'training of trainers' (TOT) sessions provide advanced participants with training about the application of workshop material, including advice about how to facilitate subsequent workshops and educational events at the country level.
Therefore, although 12 ministerial bodies participated in the training-of-trainers workshop, only eight sectoral workshops were held.
The representatives from the training-of-trainers workshop met with COSTECH staff and workshop facilitators a day prior to the three-day workshop to address process issues and identify their roles in specific workshop sessions.
This study capitalized on existing expertise in teaching surgical skills at MUHAS, a result of CNIS annual training-of-trainers workshops in surgical skills since 2003.
The training-of-trainers workshop proved to be a useful strategy to train people for their roles during the sectoral workshops.
In January 2010, 13 HCWs were trained as facilitators during a training-of-trainers workshop.
A two-day training-of-trainers workshop, in which 21 experts participated, was held in April 2011 in Arusha, Tanzania.
