The three-day programme, supported by the Agitos Foundation, is seen as a key way to raise the profile of Paralympic sport and follows an event in Ecuador in March as well as similar initiatives in United Arab Emirates and Tunisia.

It provided "vital preparation" for the region’s Para-athletics officials, including a National Technical Officials course to prepare El Salvador for its first major Para-athletics competition next month.

“For developing countries like El Salvador programmes like this are very important," said course leader Richard Roberts.

“Developing nations have limited experience in hosting international competitions and in full compliance with all the regulations of the sport.

"The first throwing frame in the country was fabricated just two weeks ago.

“El Salvador’s National Paralympic Committee organised and provided very good support for the course, which was taught through a combination of didactic lecture material, numerous photos and a collection of videos by which to visualise what they had learned by discussing the application of the competition rules.

“Many of the National Technical Officials printed the Spanish version of the IPC Athletics rulebook from which they studied.”

Taking place in just over four weeks' time, the Torneo de Atletismo meeting will be the Central American nation's first IPC sanctioned competition, with it billed as an opportunity for them to hone their skills ahead of August's Toronto 2015 Parapan American Games.

Luis Morales Garcia was El Salvador's only competitor at the London 2012 Paralympics, finishing seventh in his heat in the 100m T54 event.

Arizona will play host to the next stop on the IPC Athletics Education Programme with an event decide to coincide with the sixth IPC Athletics Grand Prix of the 2015 series, before another is held on European soil in Nottwil, Switzerland.

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