Objectives: The objectives of the project are to: 1. promote active health improvement in the rural areas of Sierra Leone by developing a network of resource centres, each staffed by a health promoter within an existing library, health clinic or other community setting; 2. locate, repackage and/or develop healthcare materials to suit various levels of users in the community; 3. collaborate with and support health workers within communities; 4. evaluate the impact of the resource centres. Training programmes are also being delivered for health professionals and librarians in the retrieval and dissemination of research-based health information. Methods: Six topic areas were chosen by the project team: safe drinking water and diarrhoea prevention, Malaria, HIV/AIDS, safe motherhood and family planning, immunisation, and nutrition. A set of Evidence Briefings, summarising recent research evidence for the topic, were developed and educational materials for community use were collected. Relevant Cochrane reviews are included. The Malaria Evidence Briefing includes summaries of nine reviews with live links from the online version. These are of value to health professionals but not to health promoters in communities, where the messages need to be repurposed to visual and verbal forms relevant to the local culture and language. Results: Cochrane reviews have been adapted using spoken messages and a song and dance skit, and posters and leaflets developed within Sierra Leone are in use. We will provide illustrations of these materials and present case examples of current use. A brief description will be given of the project evaluation plans with the baseline data collected on malaria prevention knowledge within communities. Conclusions: Cochrane reviews can be locally adapted to be of relevance and significance to communities.