Table 4. Participants Written Comments at the End of the Evidence-to-Policy Workshop for Policy-Makers in Ebonyi State .

1. The workshop is an eye opener to the context of influencing policy direction at our levels ensuring best practices and encouraging team/collaborative approach.

2. The workshop is been very interesting but there is no time to digest the papers well. We need more of this programme.

3. The lectures were well-packaged and educating.

4. I appreciate the organiser for their elaboration and in-depth knowledge about EIP.

5. My observation is that this course should be extended to more days not only one day.

6. This training is very good for policy influencers like us.

7. Political stakeholders should be involved in this project because this will enable them realize their role and collaborate with us.

8. This training is very educating and brain storming and must be continued.

9. I am better informed now about the global best practices of health policy-making.

10. The papers presented were all master piece in my every day activities.

11. Interesting and eye opener in policy-making decision process.

12. Workshop of this kind should be organised regularly for us to be masters in the process.

13. Bureaucracy and administrative bottleneck often impede us from acting and going what we are supposed to do what will you do about these things?

14. This health policy programme should be organised least every 3 months for us to be well-equipped in the rudiments policy-making.

15. This programme should be sustained by organising it every month.

16. This is very beneficial to policy-makers and influencers.

17. More political advocacy in order to help us break through with its implementations.

18. Some knowledge are not very adequate.

19. This has increased my knowledge on policy brief especially its collaborative nature.

20 .This is very vital for us the policy-makers and periodic interaction like this should be encouraged and sustained.

21 .This workshop is what we need to be part of.

22. The presentations are very friendly and understandable we pray for the presenters for more wisdom.

23. There must be more practical approach this than academics because the rivals between politics and needs will not give us a favourable ground to implement this evidenced-based policy-making process.

Abbreviation: EIP, evidence-informed policy-making.