Author Details An evaluation study on the relevance and effectiveness of training activities in Northern Uganda Luigi Cicciò1 MPH, Strategic information director, lciccio@numatuganda.org Med Makumbi2 MDevEcon, Chief of party, mmakumbi@numatuganda.org Diana Sera3 BSc, Monitoring & evaluation manager, dsera@numatuganda.org 1, 2, 3 NUMAT/JSI, Gulu, Uganda. Correspondence: L Cicciò, PO Box 946, Gulu, Uganda  Author contribution: Luigi Cicciò: original concept, designed the project, collected data, wrote the first draft. Med Makumbi: original concept, devised survey tool, contributed to drafts. Diana Sera: devised survey tool, contributed to drafts. Citation: Cicciò L, Makumbi M, Sera D.  An evaluation study on the relevance and effectiveness of training activities in Northern Uganda. Rural and Remote Health 10: 1250. (Online) 2010. Available: http://www.rrh.org.au Received: 12 June 2009 Revised: 14 October 2009 Accepted: 19 February 2010