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Table 3 Characteristics and operations of health facility management committees

From: Are Health Facility Management Committees in Kenya ready to implement financial management tasks: findings from a nationally representative survey

 

Non-municipal

Municipal

Total

 

Dispensary

Health centre

Dispensary

Health centre

 

N

144

65

21

18

248

 

%

%

%

%

%

 

(95% CI)

(95% CI)

(95% CI)

(95% CI)

(95% CI)

Facility has HFMC

97.8

97.9

80.2

94.4

97.2

(92.3 - 99.4)

(91.2 - 99.5)

(10.7 - 99.3)

(40.4 - 99.8)

(93.0 - 98.9)

Of those with HFMCs

N

140

63

18

17

238

 

Median

Median

Median

Median

Median

[IQR]

[IQR]

[IQR]

[IQR]

[IQR]

Median number of committee members

10

9

8

9

10

[9-11]

[8-11]

[7–9.5]

[9-11]

[9-11]

Median tenure (years)

3

3

3

3

3

[3]

[3]

[3]

[3]

[3]

 

%

%

%

%

%

(95% CI)

(95% CI)

(95% CI)

(95% CI)

(95% CI)

HFMC included all types of members specified in Gazette (see Table 1)

58.0

81.1

51.4

58.8

61.4

(39.2 - 74.8)

(65.7 - 90.5)

(8.9 - 92.0)

(7.8 - 96.0)

(44.7 - 75.8)

Percentage of all committee members that are female

30.8

28.6

33.3

33.3

30.0

(23.1 - 40.0)

(23.1 - 33.3)

(22.5 - 50.0)

(28.6 - 50.0)

(23.1 - 40.0)

Percentage of ordinary community committee members that are female

40.0

40.0

40.0

50.0

40.0

(30.0 - 50.0)

(33.3 - 50.0)

(37.5 - 50.0)

(30.0 - 60.0)

(31.3 - 50.0)

HFMCs with written constitution

55.4

38.5

60.0

76.5

53.5

(34.4 - 55.3)

(27.3 - 51.0)

(9.7 - 95.4)

(27.0 - 96.6)

(44.0 - 62.8)

HFMCs with fixed tenure

92.7

92.2

71.2

80.0

92.0

(82.4 - 97.2)

(82.4 - 96.8)

(10.1 - 98.2)

(5.4 - 99.6)

(83.6 - 96.3)

One or more ordinary community committee members trained in facility or financial management

15.5

26.7

20.2

29.4

17.5

(6.9 - 31.3)

(7.8 - 61.0)

(3.4 - 64.9)

(3.7 - 81.8)

(8.7 - 32.1)

Held full committee meeting in the last quarter

76.6

86.3

70.2

76.5

77.9

(58.8 - 8.2)

(75.0 - 3.0)

(20.5 - 95.6)

(15.2 - 98.3)

(62.9 - 88.0)

Held executive meeting in the last quarter

48.0

61.6

44.2

29.4

49.8

 

(39.5 - 56.6)

(42.7 - 77.6)

(9.8 - 85.2)

(5.1 - 76.3

(41.4 - 58.1)

  1. CI = confidence interval; HFMC = health facility management committee; and IQR = inter-quartile range.
  2. Source: In charge interviews.