All our training programs are designed to help laboratory personnel acquire and update the skills they need to do their jobs effectively.
For professionals, we help develop and support clinical biology training curricula. Each year, several types of scholarships provide healthcare personnel with the opportunity to obtain a Biology degree (Bachelor, DES, Master, short training in maintenance).
We support ongoing training of laboratory staff and create specific modules designed with input from the network’s experts. Our skills development program includes 14 modules on biosafety, data management, diseases with epidemic potential, biochemistry, hematology and other topics.
These modules, which are available in the three official ECOWAS languages – French, English and Portuguese.
RESAOLAB has a network of more than 200 instructors who have been trained as trainers in engineering, teaching techniques, and the skills development program.
Building and renovating facilities to house laboratory directorates and training centers for lab technicians is essential to provide the best learning conditions. The centers that have been built and renovated by the program provide lab technicians with optimal training facilities (classrooms, multimedia rooms, practical training areas).
RESAOLAB has helped the EPAC (Ecole Polytechnique Abomey Calavi) school in Cotonou to develop a program to teach technicians how to maintain basic equipment in biomedical laboratories.
The Mérieux Foundation, through RESAOLAB, the European Commission Project P48 put in place by Expertise France, and the REDISSE project, has already provided support to organize 4 training sessions, attended by laboratory professionals from across the sub-region.
As part of RESAOLAB’s phase 3, the Mérieux Foundation wanted to enhance the value of this unique training in the sub-region by conducting a survey of the trainees. The results of the survey made it possible to assess the level of mobilization of skills by the participants after having followed the training and to measure its contribution to the national maintenance systems.
Experts and human resource development managers organize national and regional workshops in the 7 RESAOLAB countries. Workshops are designed to reach consensus on how to implement the West African Health Organization (WAHO) regional directives and national training plans.
Helping to develop trained and qualified laboratory professionals