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. 2021 Mar 31;16(3):e0248914. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0248914

Table 4. Codes, categories and themes of election process and challenges of implementing collaborative governance.

Code Sub theme Theme
 • Code 1. Elected by community Active advertisement of vacant position Open, democratic, transparent, inclusive process with community involvement.
 • Code 2. Communication was through community leaders
Representation of different groups
 • Code 3. Distribution of posters
 • Code 1. Elected to represent the youth
 • Code 2. As in charge of facility automatically makes me the secretary
 • Code 3. Elected as chairman
 • Code 4. Women represented gender category
 • Code 5. There was a pastor
 • Code 6. The women represented the gender category
 • Code 7. People propose names
 • Code 8. People voted…. with most votes took the day
 • Code 9. We were selected through proposal and seconding
 • Code 10. Was elected to represent people with disabilities
 • Code 11. We were selected through proposing and seconding by show of hands
 • Chairman must have a degree Available criteria for different responsibilities though not understood by all Attributes
 • Vice- chairman must have a degree
 • Code 1. Project treasurer shall have knowledge in finance and administration matters
 • Code 2. People propose names
 • Code 3. As in charge of the facility I automatically became the secretary
 • Code 4. No established criteria
 • Code 5… kind of services such a person can offer, behaviour, ability to bring people together and how they respond when there is a problem.
 • Code 1. As a civil servant, I am answerable and not the committee because they are just community members and have no roles as civil servants. Unclear clarification of roles and responsibilities: It can be deduced that the community members do not clearly know their roles and responsibilities Challenges
 • Code 2… to make decisions contrary to their wishes
 • Code 3. to stand my ground because I will be answerable.
 • Code 4. have to do according to the rules and regulations of the government
 • Code 5. role is a bit passive without their signatures there is nothing that will go through.
 • Code 6. Other places, the ward administrators are beginning to play a major role and, in some accounts, only the two of you will sign. This is probably political malice. Other interests
Conflict of interest
 • Code 1. Before the budget that you make as a committee is approved, the …… should stamp. He was involved. That was a rule some months back from the office of the …. I don’t know what happened. There might have been some corruption issues. We just do what we are told. Lack of structures for appropriate stakeholder involvement
 • Code 2 they should not intrude so much as to being mandatory signatories, or the daily running of the facility. Maybe they should be involved in county development projects worth millions
 • Code 6….This creates a loophole it is important to have legislature correct
 • Code 6 Vested interests, arrogance, representation through prerecessions is hard to come by, misuse of funds by some committee members, community members do not have capacity, lack of resources, delayed funding