Table 1.

Governance groups in PRIME

Name of governance group	Main function	Frequency of meetings	Chairperson	Members
PRIME Management Group	The decision making body of PRIME and ensuring the achievement of objectives	Quarterly with at least one face-to-face meeting per year	Chief Executive Officer	PRIME Chief Executive Officer (CL), Research Directors (VP, MT), Country Principal Investigators and Ministry of Health partners, 1 representative from each partner. Research Uptake Officer, Programme Manager
PRIME Management Team	Overall leadership and responsibility for the day to day management of the PRIME	Weekly	Chief Executive Officer	PRIME Chief Executive Officer (CL), Research Directors (VP, MT), Research Uptake Officer, Programme Manager
Consortium Advisory Group	Provided external guidance to the programme and reviewed programme of work and progress	Twice a year	Independent external	Ten inter-disciplinary senior research and policy experts, at least one from each participating country, who are independent of PRIME, funders and the PRIME Chief executive Officer (CL), Research directors (VP, MT), Research Uptake Officer, Programme Manager
Country Management Groups	Overall responsibility for the implementation of the programme in each country	Every 1–4 weeks	Country Principal Investigator	Country Principle Investigator(s), Ministry of Health partner. Country Project Manager
Community Advisory Board	Guidance and independent monitoring of the implementation of the programme in the (sub)district	2–3 times per year	Independent external	Composition varies in each country but generally senior district Officials or community leaders, religious/faith leaders, traditional healers, people with lived experience of mental illness and/or their carers