Table 1 Participants, facilitators and support teams of the project activities at different levels

District level:

District implementation committee meetings

Health managers, political heads, assistant district health managers, district senior nursing officers, health educators, biostatisticians, community development officers, secretaries for health to the district councils, resident district commissioners, chief administrative officers, heads of health sub-districts or hospital managers, internal security officers, health information officers, a representative from the NGO forum, local religious leaders, and health accountants

Health managers, senior nursing officers, political and administrative heads of the districts

At least four members of the MakSPH project team; the project team attended all the meetings every quarter

Sub-county level:

Sub-county implementation committee meetings

Administrative and political heads of the sub-counties, secretaries for health to the sub-county council, health centre III managers, community development officers, health assistants, and local religious leaders

Administrative and political heads of the sub-counties

Two district level supervisors (managers), who were members of the DHT

Two members of the MakSPH project team; the project team attended all the meetings every quarter

Community level:

VHT group meetings

VHTs in a particular sub-county; there were 850 villages in the intervention area; every village had 2 VHTs; each sub-county held 1 or 2 meetings depending on the number of VHTs

Health workers, facility health managers and health assistants who provided supervisory oversight to the VHTs

Two district level supervisors (managers), who were members of the DHT

Two members of the MakSPH project team; the project team attended at least 12 VHT group meetings every quarter