Due to growth in utilization and trade in herbal medicine products in Uganda, Natural Chemotherapeutics Research Institute (NCRI)-under the Uganda National Health Research Organisation (UNHRO)-Ministry of health and Directorate of Industrial Training (DIT) an agency of Ministry of education and sports, established collaborations to formalize training of herbalists and herbal medicines processors. This is a means to improve herbal practitioner practice and formalize the sector.

The training is aimed at developing a formal and recognized certification system for herbalists and herbal medicine processors. During the training for delivery of skills, participatory training methods are adopted. These included lectures, tutorials/ focused group discussion/ clustering group presentations/ discussions demonstrations, field work and practicals