In each neighbourhood, trained polylingual community researchers together with university researchers will map formal and informal provision and infrastructures supportive to health and healthcare.
"People forget the government supported the oil and gas supply chain in its early days: with generous tax incentives, training programmes, strategic infrastructure; and supportive regulation," he said in 2011.
Clinical officers were less satisfied with infrastructure and supportive interpersonal environment than nurses or health aides.
Developments in infrastructure, encompassing supportive research environments and tools (such as accessible data) are less apparent.
Two main dimensions of satisfaction with work environment emerged through the PCA: adequate infrastructure and supportive interpersonal relationships.
This is not to suggest that bus transport is inevitably equally and universally accessible (Rye and Mykura 2009), and indeed the challenges of using buses even where the infrastructure is supportive may marginalise the most socially excluded within a population.
Two dimensions of health workers' work environment, namely infrastructure and supportive interpersonal work environment, explained much of the variation in satisfaction among rural Tanzanian health workers in primary health clinics.
Other studies have highlighted the important role that managers can play in job satisfaction [ 23, 28].While there is some evidence that improved infrastructure and supportive supervision improve retention [ 29, 30], it is worth noting that infrastructural problems themselves limit the amount and frequency of supervisory visits to remote areas.
While sites in both Zamfara and Jigawa met the criteria in terms of population size and supportive infrastructure, the state and local government support among stakeholders was found to be much stronger in Zamfara.
