Beyond a description of the tasks, facilitators and challenges of supervision, the interviews showed the uniqueness of each supervisor.
We took a deductive approach to qualitative data analysis, examining pre-established topics of interest (such as the perceived purpose, content, and challenges of supervision), while remaining open to emerging themes.
Although both countries eventually embraced CDTI, challenges of training, supervision, logistics and accountability needed to be addressed by the NGDOs and national programmes.
The main reasons for this identified by management of the ACCHS included time constraints due to competing priorities, a lack of staff to cover the duties of health staff participating in CRAFT certification, and the challenges of receiving supervision and support to complete CRAFT certification from a training supervisor from a different organisation located in a town 100 kilometres away.
In turn, resource limitations and concerns over safety and being in a rural setting were raised as some of the challenges to supervision.
He apparently relishes the challenge of restoring supervision to the Bank of England and repairing the banking system.
Even so, it underscores the challenges of overhauling banking supervision and regulation as Ben S. Bernanke, the current Fed chairman, has vowed to do, and comes as many in Congress are pushing to give the Fed even more responsibility for overseeing big financial companies.
We examine the initial experiences of CHWs, their supervisors, and village leaders to understand the strengths and challenges of such a supervision model for CHWs.
Both positive aspects and challenges in the provision of supervision via videoconference were evident in all interviews.
In total, three FGDs were conducted, two in the Internship Stage 1 and one at the end of Pilot Stage 2. Using a guided semi-structured interview, an experienced qualitative researcher (SS) asked the lay therapists involved in the current study about their experiences of the two types of supervision formats, the challenges and difficulties and how these could be addressed.
Resource limitations and transport issues in rural settings have been raised as challenges by supervisors in rural South Africa, and altering the nature rather than the frequency of supervision may be one way of dealing with this challenge [ 16, 17].
