Our framework for implementation includes components for community members who take on roles as services users (demonstrating clear benefits, allowing a trial period and ensuring high levels of confidentiality) or service providers (training in project management and securing sustainable funding).
The training continued until all providers in each project district had an opportunity to attend training.
We have coped with this limitation by including a care provider in the project management team, but nonetheless, when developing this application further for a different implementation setting, care providers need to be involved.
A cross-sectional study was conducted with providers in 24 QUALMAT project sites.
An estimated 92% of providers in the sentinel project area participated in MIIS; among these, 89% were private provider sites and 11% were public provider sites.
Involving representatives from a professional association of private providers in the survey project from the initial planning stages was cited as a crucial success factor in one country where the response rate was high.
The partial decentralisation of the IM clinic, although not initially planned for, was a change that turned out to facilitate the participation of CT providers in the IM project, chiefly by not having to split their days between different locations.
There are 12 approved providers in two areas - "project management", such as advice on legal and financial issues and transfer of staff, and "educational services", which includes school policy, curriculum advice and staff recruitment.
We've been fighting this battle for a while so, if the project cannot get the critical mass of adoption of users and of providers in the beginning of the project it will be hard for the project to continue or exist as a collaboration model.…there needs to be an economic incentive for partners".
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