Cost Benefit Analysis is an important tool for assisting decision making in a situation of scarce resources, and also assist with the process of prioritization. According to participants, this was the first cost-benefit analysis training that had been conducted in/for their countries in recent times. Moreover, participants reported that cost benefit analysis is not widely undertaken by Government officials, though participants/Governments recognised the usefulness of CBA and were keen to increase its application in country (including for assessment of non-climate change adaptation projects). In the future, workshop materials should be designed to be accessible by people with no economics background, since no economists from some countries participated. The exercises were reported as one of the main strengths/take-away skills learned from the workshop. Many participants were not familiar with the use of excel prior to the workshop which had the effect of slowing down the exercises as well as detracting from the economic analysis elements of the exercises. Participants were very receptive to a participatory exercise which sought to demonstrate how people ‘discount’ future consumption in everyday life.