Table 4.
Staff structure of model LSM program for Vihiga District, Kenya
| Administrative level | Number of staff | Time contributed/ period employed per year |
Role & responsibility | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Part time staff contribution to program | ||||
| International | LSM expert | 1 | 5 months | Advice on technical and programme management. Capacity building, support and trouble shooting. |
| National | Director NMCP | 1 | 1 week | Approval of programme, reading progress reports, signing documents, site visits. |
| Entomologist | 1 | 1 week | Reading progress reports, technical advice, site visits. | |
| Procurement Officer | 1 | 1 week | Central procurement of larvicide and equipment | |
| Provincial | Malaria Control Officer | 1 | 1 week | Engagement in stakeholder meetings. Site visits with NMCP staff. |
| District | Public Health Officer | 1 | 1 hour/week | Involvement in weekly management meetings. |
| Medical Officer | 1 | 2.5 weeks | Involvement in weekly management meetings, sensitization of District health staff. | |
| Full time program staff | ||||
| District | Program manager | 1 | 12 months | Day to day programme management, financial management. Recruiting and training Divisional Heads. |
| Driver | 1 | 12 months | Transport of programme manager, transport of equipment and supplies | |
| Admin. assistant | 1 | 6 months | Administrative duties during intervention and for one month during pre and post intervention phase | |
| Division | Divisional Heads | 6 | 12 months | Field work management, quality control, adult mosquito monitoring, reporting to programme manager. Evaluation and planning subsequent year's intervention. Training of Supervisors and LCP. |
| Location | Supervisors | 26 | 6 months | Recruitment and supervision of LCP, larval habitat spot checks. |
| Valleys | LCP | 367 | 18 weeks | Treating breeding sites with larvicide, reporting to supervisors, collecting larvicide from divisional store. |