The Occupational Herbalist Training Programme is a competency-based course developed by the Natural Chemotherapeutics Research Institute (NCRI) under the Ministry of Health, Uganda.

It equips herbal practitioners, entrepreneurs, and traditional healers with scientific and practical skills for cultivating, processing, formulating, and marketing herbal medicines safely and ethically.

Objectives:
– Build capacity of herbal practitioners through structured, DIT-accredited training.
– Promote safe, standardized, and sustainable herbal medicine practices.
– Strengthen local innovation, product quality, and entrepreneurship in natural therapeutics.
– Foster collaboration between traditional practitioners and modern scientific institutions.

Duration: Approx. 9–12 months (3 Levels).
Certification: National Occupational Herbalist Certificate (DIT).