Strategy 2.1: Build workforce capacity at all levels in the health system, among all categories of professionals through the following activities:
2.1.1 Expanding training institutions to increase numbers of mental health professionals
2.1.2 Encouraging tertiary institutions to train mental health professionals
2.1.3 Promoting private sector participation in the training of mental health professionals
2.1.4 Institute continuous professional development of existing staff
2.1.5 Organizing in service training for existing staff
2.1.6 Sensitization/orientation for health workforce including, Professional Nurses, Community health nurses, Medical officers, other Para-medics with regards to the new mental health act and care of mentally ill people
2.1.7 Train volunteers in the community, eg. teachers, traditional and faith based healers for use as informal community frontline workers
2.1.8 Establishing four new 40-50 bed capacity regional psychiatric hospitals in the middle and northern belts.