Table 3.

Program actors across the sites

Site	Resource team	User organisation	Core team
Kisii	Merlin project coordinator (overall supervision); Programme managers, IEC Officers, Monitoring and evaluation officers, field team	District Public Health Officer (coordination, logistical support, supervision and awareness creation); District Medical Officer (supervision); Divisional Public Health Officers (facilitators and trainer)	Three Merlin officials and three PHOs from the programme site
Kwale	Government officers from the Division of Malaria Control (DoMc), (strategic policy direction and facilitating funding); Researchers (technical support).	District Public Health Officer; District Medical Officer; Divisional Public Health Officers all with similar roles as described above	District PHO
Bungoma	USAID officials (designed and funded programme); Centres for Diseases Control (CDC) officials (part of initial team that designed the intervention and conducted operational research); AMREF officials (technical support); IEC specialists (designed and developed IEC materials).	District Public Health Officer; District Medical Officer; Divisional Public Health Officers with similar roles like Kisii	Five members from resource team and five different district health departments (nutrition, medical records, pharmacy, public health, social work)