Table 4.

Themes and sub-themes

Themes	Sub-themes
National policies and administration	Gaps between policies and ground realities; allegations of corruption; impact on government spending, professional standardization (or lack of).
Care quality	With mentoring, certain improvements in care provision by maternity staff, quality monitoring systems, and availability of lifesaving medicines and equipment.
Health seeking behaviors	Increased antenatal Care (ANC), increased Skilled Birth Attendance (SBA), increased facility birth, increased immunizations.
Experiences and underlying motivators of midwives and maternity staff	Discomfort related to deployment status and its impact on performance; and providers’, mentors’ and administrators’ appreciation of mentoring.
Health outcomes	Maternal mortality, newborn mortality, improved under five deaths.
Midwifery-led care models	Midwives are lead professionals in delivery of care from pregnancy through postnatal period.