• 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 |