Table 1.

Tailoring of the service users and caregivers short-course delivery and target participants to country context

	Ethiopia	India	Nepal	Nigeria	South Africa	Uganda
Target audience	Service users and caregivers in the existing PRogramme for Improving MEntal health care project, district and primary care health centre heads and district health office planners	Service users and caregiver organisation at national and state level; service users and caregivers in Sehore district, Madhya Pradesh	Service users and caregivers from several primary health centres in the Chitwan district and staff from service users organisation in Kathmandu	Service users and caregivers	Service users from several primary health care facilities in the Dr Kenneth Kaunda district	Service user organisations/groups; leaders in service user organisations
Goals	Increased awareness of the meaning and potential benefits of involvement of service users and caregivers and receptiveness to the concept; equipping service users, caregivers and primary health centre heads/district health office staff with a framework for engagement acceptable to all	Awareness on system issues involving community advisory board group and other service users/caregiver organisations in advocacy	From the workshop we hoped: (a) to develop an appropriate, common and contextually suitable term for the word ‘service users’; (b) to discuss the findings of the capacity-building studies and develop common consensus on various aspects of service users involvement in Nepal	Short term: improve awareness and equip with advocacy skills and evidence; long term: empower to engage service providers, facility managers, government agencies, mass media and the general public	To improve awareness of the importance of service user advocacy to improve mental health services and to empower service users to engage in such activities	Short courses; advocacy sessions at both national and district levels
Plan for Emerald resources	Multifaceted intervention to increase service users involvement in mental health services and systems at the grass-roots level (feasible and relevant to be integrated into plans for mental healthcare scale up)	Workshops with national and state-level organisations	Workshops/group sharing	Capacity-building workshops	Capacity-building workshops including workshop materials	Modules, video, summary notes
Duration, days	2 for service users/caregivers; 1 for primary healthcare leads	1	3	2	1	1