To evaluate if increased supervision and support of South African Government health workers’ home visits improves maternal and child outcomes: study protocol for a randomized control trial

Table 2 Identification of responsibility for administrative and implementation functions with community health workers (CHWs)

	Standard Care	Accountable Care
Hiring	Local government	Local government
Salary	Local government	Local government
Training	Initial Philani Intervention Model (PIM) training	Initial PIM training and mobile phones provided
Visit documentation	Log sheet	CHW will log home visits in real time on mobile phones and enter information about the pregnant women in a folder for follow up purposes
Supervision	Local government	PIM
Type of supervision	Log sheet	Random supervision visits every 2 weeks including real-time and data-informed feedback; support and reminders will be sent to CHW and supervisors via mobile phones (“flag system”)

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