The main task of the meeting - the design of innovative training responses to specific national development needs - resulted, in the first instance, in the design of a project outline sheet covering 14 key areas. This analytical tool was formulated and agreed upon at an early stage of the meeting. Individuals or small workshop groups then applied this analysis either to innovative projects which had been introduced recently in countries represented at the meeting or in the design of completely new training activities based on the participants' extensive knowledge of national development needs in Island Developing and Other Specially Disadvantaged States.