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Table 5 Stakeholder engagements

From: Capacity building for implementation research: a methodology for advancing health research and practice

Stakeholders

Functions and contributions

Institutions

Stakeholders inside training

Curriculum developers

Designing curriculum

UGSPH, RTCs, etc.

Subject lectures

Teaching/participate in review

University Heads of Department

Managing/monitoring

Students

Evaluating training

Stakeholders outside training

Researchers

Consulting the content/participating in teaching

UGSPH, RTCs

Policy-makers

Participating in curriculum design

MOH, GHS

Health project managers (rural/urban)

Participating in training needs assessment/curriculum design

MOH, GHS

Training managers at ministerial level Control

Control/approvalParticipating in teaching material development

UGSPH, RTCs

Researchers/fellows

Participating in training needs assessmentConsulting/participating in training course design, signing training contracts

UGSPH, RTCs

INGO, LNGO

Consulting/participating in training course design, signing training contracts

WHO, TDR

Sponsor linking

Linking, coordinating activities

Patients

Participating in research activities

GHS

Graduate students

Monitor/evaluating training courses

Universities

  1. GHS Ghana Health Service, INGO international non-governmental organisations, LNGO local non-governmental organisation, MOH Ministry of Health, RTCs regional training centres, TDR Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, UGSPH University of Ghana School of Public Health