Overview of Nigeria Branch of South Africa Cochrane Centre Training Programme
The Nigeria Branch of  the South Africa Cochrane Centre provides free training workshops designed to facilitate the process of completing a Cochrane systematic review. The training team offers workshop sessions and courses for authors initiating, conducting, and updating Cochrane reviews.

The workshops and courses we offer are:

• Workshops for Review Authors

• Annual Meeting of Nigerian Contributors to The Cochrane Collaboration

Workshops for Review Authors
Developing a Protocol for a Review
The ‘Developing a Protocol for a Review’ workshop assists authors in the process of initiating a systematic review from the early stages of writing a protocol. The development of a protocol involves designing a review question, determining the intervention, deciding on study criteria, and choosing the outcome of interest. This workshop includes an introductory session on the software used for data management and analysis in Cochrane reviews, RevMan, with a demonstration of the program.

Introduction to Analysis
The ‘Introduction to Analysis’ workshop introduces authors to the methodological issues and concepts of statistics used in conducting systematic reviews. This is an introductory-level workshop that covers the basics of applied statistics within the context of a systematic review. The session addresses issues of bias, data extraction, critical appraisal, heterogeneity, binary and continuous data, summary statistics, and meta-analysis.

Review in progress workshop
 The ‘Review in progress workshop’ is designed to help authors of reviews get their review 'across the line'.
The format for these workshops includes presentations by resource persons and staff of the Nigeria Branch of South Africa Cochrane Centre, facilitated discussions, and practical exercises. The workshops are run in various locations around Nigeria.

For information about dates of' Developing a Protocol for a Review’, 'Introduction to Analysis' workshops, and ‘Review in progress workshop’ as well as how to register please click here( cochranenigeria@yahoo.com)

Open Learning Material
The Open Learning Material continues to be freely available on the web at: www.cochrane-net.org/openlearning/.
The Open Learning Material has been revised in line with current terminology (e.g. ‘author’ replacing ‘reviewer’) to ensure compatibility with the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions.

Annual Meeting of Nigerian Contributors to The Cochrane Collaboration
The ‘Annual Meeting of Nigerian Contributors to The Cochrane Collaboration’ provides an opportunity for Nigerian based members, actively involved in The Cochrane Collaboration, to get together to learn, debate and network.
The meeting is intended to give an overview of some of the major issues of the moment, while the workshops are a forum for training, consultation, methodological research and information sharing.