Table 1 Matrix of capacity building strategies in ChRAIC Sudan
ChRAIC approach to capacity building | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Entity targeted | Graduate or post graduate training | Learning by doing | Institutional partnerships between higher and lower income countries | Centres of excellence |
Individual & Community (Local) | ✓ PhD scholarships ✓ Masters students receive PEER and qualitative research training | ✓ Action research using PEER by PhD student ✓ PEER training and research conducted by 14 community women | ✓ ChRAIC PhD student agreement | |
Institution | ✓ Qualitative research and PEER training in Masters Curriculum at UMST | ✓ Renk county senior department of health officials involved in proposal development ✓ Local theatre groups involved in drama for health promotion | ✓ ChRAIC cross country institutional partnership | |
National | ✓ Memorandums of Understanding signed: – UMST and EPILAB – UMST and FMoH | |||
Global | ✓ RCRU as a ‘think tank’ and leading centre for conducting research on maternal and child health in Sudan established. | ✓ IPHE recognised by Women Deliver in 2012 as one of the top ten Educational Initiative Ideas and Solutions for improving the lives of girls and women. ✓ IPHE has also been identified by Training in Tropical Diseases special programme and the WHO as an example of a qualitative implementation research approach for improving the lives of girls and women worldwide | ||