Table 2.

Countries NHRS situation before and after the regional project implementation according to the framework domains

Domains	Indicators	Guinea-Bissau		Liberia		Mali		Sierra Leone
		Before	After	Before	After	Before	After	Before	After
Governance and management	Existence of a map of the research for health stakeholders	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes
	Existence of research policy, plan and agenda	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
	Existence of research coordination system	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
	Existence of national ethical committee	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Existence of health research monitoring system and indicators	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes
Capacities	Existence of training programme in health research	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Number of institutional capacities strengthening activities				1
	Number of persons trained in ethical review		1		26		1
	Number of persons trained in research management MoH		1		2
	Number of persons trained in research methodology		18		32		2		8
	Number of persons trained to Master level in research		0		1		1		0
	Number of persons trained to use HRWeb platform		20		24		28		28
Financing	Existence of budget lines within the MoH to finance research	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No
Diffusion and use research results	Existence of research results dissemination mechanisms	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes

MoH Ministry of Health