Table 1.
Profile of municipalities where the accountability initiatives are based and participants in interpretive group discussions. Lead defender and field staff from each municipality also participated in follow-up interviews.
| Municipal profile | Participant profile | Sex | Role in community | |||
| Role in initiative | ||||||
| Concepcion | ||||||
| Population: 7000 in 12 km2 | Lead defender | 1 | F | 1 | Women’s CBO | 1 |
| Defender | 1 | F | 1 | Women’s CBO | 1 | |
| Poverty: 81% | Collaborators | 7 | F | 2 | Municipal institutions | 3 |
| M | 5 | Village leader | 2 | |||
| Women’s CBO | 2 | |||||
| Health services: one health centre | Field staff | 1 | F | 1 | ||
| Total | 10 | |||||
| Santana | ||||||
| Population: 7000 in 12 km2 | Lead defender | 1 | M | 1 | Village leader | 1 |
| Defenders | 4 | M | 4 | Village leader | 3 | |
| Urban civil society | 1 | |||||
| Poverty: 85% | Collaborators | 3 | M | 4 | Village leader | 2 |
| Agricultural cooperative | 1 | |||||
| Urban civil society | 1 | |||||
| Health services: | Field staff | 1 | M | 1 | ||
| One health centre, | ||||||
| Four health posts | ||||||
| Total | 9 | |||||
| Tolima | ||||||
| Population: 27 027 in 196 km² | Lead defender | 1 | F | 1 | Urban civil society | 1 |
| Defenders | 3 | M | 3 | Urban civil society | 2 | |
| Indigenous authority | 1 | |||||
| Poverty: 96% | Collaborators | 9 | F | 3 | TBA association | 4 |
| M | 6 | Indigenous authority | 1 | |||
| Village leader | 2 | |||||
| Urban civil society | 2 | |||||
| Health services: | Field staff | 1 | M | 1 | ||
| One district hospital, | ||||||
| Two health posts | ||||||
| Total | 14 | |||||
CBO, community-based organisation; TBA, traditional birth attendant.