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Table 4 Categories and themes emerging from the study

From: Governing the implementation of Emergency Obstetric Care: experiences of Rural District Health Managers, Tanzania

CHMT experience on

Categories describing manifest content

Themes describing latent content

EmOC implementation

• Making progress towards better services

A process accompanied by achievements and challenges

• CHMT taking a lead and work with team spirit

• Increased demand for services

• Resource scarcity in term of skilled health workers, funds and time

Working with competing needs

Working together with partners

• Acknowledging importance of partners

Partnership is necessary to make things happen

• Partners play different roles

• A need for clear working arrangements

• A desire for community participation