Table 5.

Relevant stakeholders identified across the three countries

	Afghanistan	Bangladesh	Uganda
Community level	Local community leaders and health councils – support for the scorecard programme	Village doctors – main target of intervention	Village health workers (village health teams) involved in implementing the intervention
	Local NGOs that helped to implement the project	Villagers, as users of the proposed mHealth technologies	Health facility staff, including officers in charge
			Savings groups, involved in helping households save for deliveries
District and provincial level	Provincial Public Health Directors important in terms of coordination and providing support to facilities		District local councils, district health officers and sub-county councils
National	Community-based Health Care Department at Ministry of Public Health, which became the champion for the community scorecards	Technical Advisory Group for ICT in health (formed by ICDDR,B during 2014)	Ministry of Health, especially the Reproductive Health Division and the Planning Department
Private sector actors		Private for-profit firm that initially provided the call centre service
		Other projects and companies running mHealth interventions in the same regions