As far as possible, staff in malaria control programs and participating health departments will be trained and supported to collect and analyse the data from their own site.  The malaria control program manager, or his designee, will be responsible for the evaluation of his province's malaria control program.  Although local capacity building within the Malaria Control Programs is critical, the importance of this evaluation mandates that well trained site managers would mentor and support these programmes to ensure feasibility of the evaluation and reliability of the data.  By the completion of the evaluation, capacity should exist within each site for the ongoing evaluation of each malaria control program.
		Three levels of human resource development are envisaged, namely in service training of malaria control program staff and local health care professionals, pre-service and in-service training of dedicated study staff, and postgraduate degrees.

Three levels of human resource development are envisaged, namely in service training of malaria control program staff and local health care professionals, pre-service and in-service training of dedicated study staff, and postgraduate degrees.

Fields in which pre-service training will occur include: data collection (drug utilisation, costing, clinical and parasitological outcomes, Malaria Information Systems), standardisation of PCR methods, socio-behavioural evaluation techniques, and cost-effectiveness modelling.

Effectiveness of training will be evaluated on an ongoing basis to ensure valid data collection, and for accreditation of successful candidates.  Training will be repeated and reinforced as required.

Concerns regarding generalisability of study results outside of the study areas have been expressed, as the intensive capacity building possible in a study may not be feasible within a routine malaria control program.  Wherever possible, representatives from other African countries will be included in the training programs and feedback sessions through their participation in the regional malaria meetings.  This study aims to establish key requirements for the successful  implementation of combination therapy, which could be used to support regional implementation of CAT