Table 4 Description of key informant interview types, recruitment targets and proposed number of interviews per city

Health sector stakeholders

Formal health worker and informal health worker

2 KIIs

To pretest study instruments

Community stakeholders

Community/opinion leaders, traditional leaders (one community leader from each of the three types of settlements)

4 KIIs

To obtain key stakeholders’ perspectives

Formal health sector stakeholders

Heads of primary health care centres, Primary Health care (PHC) coordinators, LGA medical officers, LGA Roll-back Malaria Focal Persons, Public and private sector pharmacists and doctors, and State Malaria Programme Officers

10 KIIs

To obtain key stakeholders’ perspectives

Informal health sector stakeholders

Patent Medicine Vendors, drug peddlers/hawkers, traditional/herbal healers (two separate KIIs from each of the typologies of informal health workers across the three different settlement types)

6 KIIs

To obtain key stakeholders’ perspectives

Total number of KIIs per city: 22