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e conducted. This could potentially lead to an appropriate information sharing programme.E richard.walker@nhct.nhs.ukMaurice YaogoGroupe de Recherche, d'Expertise et de Formation en Santé pour le Développement (GREFSaD),Burkina Faso'Disseminating Immpact research's findings in Burkina Faso through community and civil societynetworks'£30 000Immpact (the Initiative for Maternal Mortality Programme Assessment) carried out multidisciplinaryresearch in Burkina Faso, Ghana and Indonesia from September 2002 to February 2007. The purposewas to provide evidence of the effectiveness of safe motherhood strategies. In Burkina Faso, thelegacy of Immpact is a wealth of data and evidence from seven work programmes, a tool kit to assistthe process of evaluation of safe motherhood strategies (as well as the capacity to apply these tools)and an understanding of how evidence can be applied in determining policy.The objective of this project is to reinforce the capacities of strategic actors (the representatives ofcivil society organisations network, health-specialised reporters network, artists, parliamentariansand local decision makers) to facilitate the efficient dissemination of research results obtained inBurkina Faso by Immpact. This in turn should lead to the effective use of evidence in advocacy,policy formulation, programme design and practice.The project builds on the dissemination of Immpact Burkina results from the Outcomes afterPregnancy research programme activities. This work, undertaken on a small scale on three sites fromonly one of seven research programmes, will be extended to identify means of dissemination of keymessages from all Immpact research findings in Burkina Faso at the whole country level, testingother dissemination tools that fit with the local context.E grefsad_asso@yahoo.fr