Tools

The tools included on this website can be the point of departure for discussions and education purposes individually, but our team has found that they are effective when used in 1-2 day workshops with about 20 participants / workshop. 

Full-day workshops are appropriate and may be necessary, if the objectives of a community or a research team in using the PRET are, as intended, to strengthen capacity for (potential) research participants to understand and assert their rights. 

Facilitation of the workshop should not be done by the same individuals responsible for recruitment and consent processes in a research project. This could limit workshop participants' critical engagement with the tools, and the candid discussions of factors shaping decision-making including trust of researchers or a particular project in a particular setting. Facilitation of workshops using the PRET would ideally be led by community engagement experts who do not have a vested interest in successful recruitment to a particular research project for the population receiving the training, community leaders (ideally trained in usage of the PRET by the creators). Workshops also may be supported by the African and Canadian co-leads Nouvet & Kader Konde as needed (contacts below).