Conducted Master Trainer Training for lecturers and nurses from target nursing colleges and collaborative hospitals.

The project plans a cascade-type capacity-building approach to train "Master Trainers (MT)" at the target nursing colleges and cooperating hospitals for on-site training. As the first step of the cascade, the Master Trainer Training (1st batch) for MT development was conducted over a period of 12 days from February 13 to 28 for 34 participants. The second batch will be held in August this year, and a total of 64 master trainers are planned to be deployed to the target nursing colleges and collaborative hospitals.

The project requested each college and hospital to select candidates who meet the following criteria: master's degree or above, English language skills, ICT skills, communication skills, and management skills such as teamwork, etc. Candidates were screened by the project, and after consultation with the Directorate General of Nursing and Midwifery (DGNM), each target college and its collaborative hospital, they were selected as candidates for Master Trainers. The trainers for this training were the principals of the target nursing colleges and nursing superintendents of the collaborative hospitals, faculty members of the National Institute of Advanced Nursing Education (NIANER), target hospital nurses in the first phase of the project (CBNS-I) ^{＊ 1,} and the faculty of the Grameen Caledonian College of Nursing. They collaborated with project experts to prepare teaching materials, group work, and practical exercises and conducted training mainly in Bengali on the day of the training.

Many conventional government-led training programs consisted of classroom lectures, but in order to disseminate training methods that could be immediately applied in actual educational and clinical settings, the classroom lectures were limited to 15 to 20 minutes and more time was devoted to discussions, group work, practical skills training, presentations, and other activities to achieve participatory training. Participants rated the training quality very highly, with 94% of them rating it "good" or higher and 6% rating it "average," indicating that the participants themselves were very satisfied with the training. Some of the principals of the target colleges were so interested in the training after attending once that they came back at their own expense even though they had not accepted a lecture, or some of the nursing superintendents came to the training every day, even on days when they were not in charge of lectures.

On the last day of the training, all participants gave a 3-minute presentation on the topic of reviewing the MT training and their action plans for capacity building to be implemented in their own colleges/hospitals in the future.

This training is not in the form where participants can receive a certificate only if they participate, but rather a system where participants who meet the certification criteria become master trainers based on a comprehensive evaluation of post-test results, attitude in group work, practical skills, teamwork, presentation, and other aspects of the training. Certified participants will soon receive a certificate and an MT Trainer badge.

*1: Dhaka Medical College Hospital