Table 2.

Overview of methods and participants

Method	Country	Number of participants
In-depth interviews	Ghana	4 districts (DG1 and DG2): 11 DHMT members (4 F; 7 M)
	Malawi	4 districts (DG1 and DG2): 11 DHMT members and 1 District Council (4 F; 8 M)
	Uganda	6 districts (DG1 and DG2): 15 DHMT members and 1 HR officer (6 F; 10 M)
Scale-up assessment	Ghana	3 NSSG members (1 F; 2 M); 5 RT members (2 F; 3 M)
	Malawi	2 NSSG members (1 F; 1 M); 5 RT members (3 F; 2 M) Additional stakeholders: 1 government, 1 UN organization and 1 bilateral donor (1 F; 2 M)
	Uganda	1 RT member and 1 NSSG member (2 M)
Country research team reflection	Ghana	4 research team members (1 F; 3 M)
	Malawi	4 research team members (4 M)
	Uganda	3 research team members (2 F; 1 M)

DG = district group.