Ghana Past Events

The following are a list of past featured events for Ghana. For more recent featured workshops, see the Ghana Events page. For a list of events in Ghana, see the Events Calendar. 

2008

Web page design for librarians, Consortium of Academic & Research Libraries in Ghana  (CARLIGH), University of Ghana, 15-17 July 2008
This training event, attended by 29 participants from CARLIGH member institutions, resulted in participants developing an institutional web page by the final day.  As this workshop incorporated train the trainer content along with web designing, the skills acquired will be shared by colleagues at the represented institutions. Appreciation of the content and facilitation by John Serbe Marfo and Abednege Corletey as well as opportunities for further development and relevance of the skills acquired were noted in the feedback. 

Sample of the comments received include

  • "I can design a website and even know how to publish a site"
  • "[The workshop was] useful and has motivated me to go beyond what I have"
  • "The programme was well organised and the venue is excellent.  The facilitator and his assistant were very sociable and made the whole programme lively"
  • "I am very grateful for this event and would like to appeal that we benefit from such and more of these events." 

Reviewing Workshop for Journal Editors, Uganda, 2005
This workshop was held jointly with the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases at WHO (TDR) and the Forum for African Medical Editors (FAME) in Entebbe, Uganda, April, 2005. The objective of the workshop was to develop improved reviewing processes and guidelines for the FAME membership and other medical journals and also included a session on how to provide training to their reviewers. The editorial guidelines which were developed during the workshop can be viewed on the FAME website, here.

The 16 participants represented 13 journals from 9 countries

  1. African Health Sciences (Uganda)
  2. African Journal of Medicine and Medical Sciences (Nigeria)
  3. African Journal of Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicines (Nigeria)
  4. Ethiopian Journal of Health Development (Ethiopia)
  5. Ghana Medical Journal (Ghana)
  6. Juba Medical Journal (Sudan)
  7. Malawi Medical Journal (Malawi)
  8. Orient Journal of Medicine (Nigeria)
  9. South African Medical Journal (South Africa)
  10. Sudanese Journal of  Dermatology (Sudan)
  11. Tanzania Health Research Bulletin (Tanzania)
  12. Tanzania Medical Journal (Tanzania)
  13. West African Journal of Medicine (Nigeria)
  14. Sudanese Journal of Dermatology (Sudan)
  15. EMAME Representative (Pakistan)