The IAAF Regional Development Centre organized its first ever IAAF Technical Officials and Certification System (TOECS) Level I Lecturers Course held exclusively for women participants.

            The course was held from April 28 until May 3, 2009, at the Madya Athletics Stadium in Bung Karno Sports Complex, in Jakarta through classroom and field sessions.

Maurice Nicholas of Singapore and P. Solomon of Malaysia delivered the materials to 15 participants from 13 countries -- Bangladesh, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Iran, Laos, Malaysia, Maldives, Myanmar, Pakistan, Singapore and Sri Lanka which sent one representative each;  India and Indonesia both sent two participants to the event.

            The classroom sessions included introduction to IAAF Development Program and TOECS, guidelines for the conduction of practice/implementation, guidelines for the conduction of theory classes and guidelines for the use of audio-visual aids. Materials on evaluation methods and techniques, officiating philosophy and course administration were also provided.

For the field session, participants were involved in ways to manage a competition, preparing the competition equipment as well as placing competition technical officials. The participants, for example, focused on time-keeping, start and hurdles in the running events.

Assessments for participants were done through classroom presentation, competition equipment preparation and written examination.