This workshop focused on group process skills, problem solving, and clinical decision-making skills, as well as on the skills needed to train new trainers. Other topics included change leadership (to prepare the participants for their role as change agents), transfer of learning, performance improvement, and preservice education.

At the beginning of the workshop, participants shared their experiences with conducting training in their own or other countries. They also presented their efforts to implement their action plans aimed at improving MNH clinical practices at their worksites.

Women, Children, Health.

The MNH Program was designed help ensure that women and newborns survive pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period. As part of an effort to develop a sustainable approach to meeting regional needs for skilled providers, the MNH Program started the Regional Expert Development Initiative (REDI) in 2001. REDI establishes core groups of maternal and neonatal healthcare experts and trainers in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). The workshop described here is part of this REDI initiative.

The Program "develops" experts - like those who attended the workshop - by updating their evidence-based maternal and newborn healthcare practices, standardising their clinical skills, and enhancing their training skills. Addressing leadership skills is central to this expert development process. As part of their participation in the initiative, experts commit to an action plan to change selected maternal and newborn healthcare practices at their respective institutions.

A directory of the 16 professionals who attended the workshop, including contact information, is available (see contact information below).