Map Map


8. Informing and engaging stakeholders

Summary

The engagement of stakeholders can help to ensure that appropriate policies are developed and implemented. The following questions could be used to guide decisions about how to inform and engage individuals, groups or organisations with an interest in deliberations about health policies in the preparation and use of a policy brief:

A systematic approach should be used when making decisions about the objectives of informing and engaging stakeholders, about which stakeholders to inform and engage, about how to inform and engage them, and about how to use their input. A worksheet for planning how to inform and engage stakeholders is provided in the ‘Additional resources’ section of this guide. This worksheet addresses the main considerations described in this guide.


Evaluating the guide


As you use the guides, please complete the evaluation form included in the 'Additional resources' section so that the guides can be improved.



Click here to download a printable pdf version of this guide.



This page was last updated November 2011.