| Awareness, commitment, integration into guidelines and routine practice: |
After the course, I published a paper. This helped my boss to understand what OR is OR has been identified as an important tool for informing policy and practice OR has now been included in our organisation’s policy, and we have an OR agenda for the coming year Research guidelines have been developed Monitoring and evaluation guidelines are being developed for the programme All staff are being encouraged to conduct and publish OR More human resources are being allocated for OR in our projects |
| Capacity building and communication between researchers: |
Monitoring and evaluation activities are now performed more efficiently by our team. We are using EpiData† as well as spreadsheets The data management skills learned during the course enabled me to perform sophisticated data extraction and analysis; the results were presented as posters in international conferences and important programme meetings OR training for staff at provincial level has meant more human resources for OR More OR research is being conducted by junior researchers |
| Partnerships and communication between institutions: |
Partnerships were built with the National Tuberculosis Programme and the World Health Organization for conducting OR New partnerships have been built with different institutions We are currently discussing with partners about starting to provide OR training New research partnerships have been established with several international institutions |
| Funding and facilitating the research process: |
The budget for OR has been incorporated into all new projects and grants Resource mobilisation for OR was enhanced through our Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria grant I was involved in writing a proposal for funding for OR projects and training |
