Table 2.

Methods used to enhance capacity for increasing use of evidence in policy cycles

	Enhancing individual capacity	Enhancing organizational capacity	Enhancing institutional capacity
Bangladesh, ICDDRB	Three-day workshops for policy makers, programme managers and practitioners: how to conduct literature reviews, how to evaluate evidence, how to write policy briefs.	Regular seminars between researchers and policy makers. Improved digital communications by email and text messaging.	RPCC established within government institution. Multimedia activities including website hosting.
Gambia, CIAM	Three-day workshop for Parliamentarians, plus training programmes for health journalists	Strengthening of infrastructural capacity (information technology hardware, internet routes, etc). Established web-based repository of information.
India, CORT	Training programme for different cadres of health staff; topics included: sources of data, indicators, communication skills and use of evidence in policy making. Follow-up visits with trainees undertaken.	Incorporation of evidence-policy topics into training modules of post-graduate health-training institutes.
India, SATHI	Three-day training courses (four over the course of a year) for local planning and monitoring committees. Content focused on health rights, health inequalities, use of data.
Nigeria, NAS	Training workshops for health care managers, focused on health policy analysis, health systems and governance, advocacy, health economics and evidence in policy making	Biannual policy retreats with researchers, policy makers, managers.	Lagos State Ministry of Health established a Health Policy-Research Committee with commissioning, review and advisory functions.