Stakeholder engagement collection
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In this collection, you will be guided through videos, publications, and toolkits related to effective and meaningful stakeholder engagement when studying the implementation of NCD programmes, policies, and practices.
Learning includes identifying key stakeholders such as patients, healthcare providers, policymakers, and community leaders, understanding their interests and influences, and techniques for fostering collaboration and consensus. Content covers best practices for stakeholder communication, participatory approaches, and conflict resolution in the context of NCDs and LMICs.
This collection provides a structured introduction to stakeholder engagement in implementation research.
- Introduction: First you will be introduced to stakeholder engagement with recommended reading from our ‘Getting started with implementation research’ page.
- e-Hub Programmes: You will then move onto expert-led videos and downloadable materials from both the Fundamentals and Advanced Programmes, covering foundational principles and advanced strategies for scaling interventions and influencing policy.
- Resources and toolkits: The next section highlights key resources, frameworks, and top tips to guide stakeholder engagement efforts.
- Case studies: And lastly, we showcase real-world examples and GACD-funded impact stories to illustrate effective stakeholder collaboration in diverse contexts.
From our 'Getting started...' webpage
Stakeholder engagement is the process of involving and working together with stakeholders before, during, and after the research project. It helps to ensure the project’s relevance to local communities and health systems as well as its sustainability, bridging the gap between research, practice, and policy. Engaging stakeholders is critical from project ideation, throughout the project duration, and afterwards in sustainment and knowledge translation.
Recommended reading:
- The science of stakeholder engagement in research: classification, implementation, and evaluation (Goodman and Thompson, 2017) – click here
- How to engage stakeholders in research: design principles to support improvement (Boaz et al. 2018) – click here
To find out how to get started with implementation research, click here.
From our Fundamentals Programme
We continue with understanding the role and importance of stakeholders in the implementation research process.
In this lecture from our Fundamentals Programme, Lijing Yan explains the crucial role of stakeholder engagement in implementation research, particularly in improving processes, outcomes, and ensuring sustainability.
Next, Ruth Verhey explores the community participatory action research approach (CPAR). In this lecture, Ruth introduces the principles of CPAR, highlighting its focus on promoting health equity through a bottom-up, community-driven approach.
From our Advanced Programme
Next, we move on to highlight key aspects of stakeholder engagement within the context of implementing NCD programmes at scale.
Aneth Dinis explains the key stakeholders to engage when scaling up interventions. You’ll learn how to involve community leaders, healthcare professionals, policymakers, and funders to ensure scalable and sustainable outcomes.
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Next, Adolfo Rubinstein discusses how to engage stakeholders to influence policy changes. You’ll learn practical strategies to bridge research and policy, and how to navigate the political landscape for effective implementation.
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And lastly, you will hear from Monika Martens about the utility of policy dialogues. Monika covers what a policy dialogue is, the benefits to a scale up research project, applying a political science lens, and her top tips for deliver a policy dialogue.
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From our Resources and toolkit library
In this section, we provide a selection of valuable resources to help deepen your understanding and application of stakeholder engagement and participatory research models. These resources are designed to support your work in building effective relationships and ensuring meaningful involvement of all key stakeholders.
Below, you’ll find links to toolkits and frameworks that offer practical guidance, case studies, and methodologies for engaging diverse groups, including policymakers, communities, and Indigenous partners.
NIH Fogarty International Center Toolkit Part 2
This toolkit offers insights into participatory research models and strategies for building strong stakeholder relationships.
GACD Stakeholder engagement resource collection
Explore this resource collection focused on engaging various stakeholders such as policymakers, communities, and implementing partners, with tools for stakeholder mapping.
GACD’s Top tips for engaging policymakers
The GACD team has developed eight top tips for researchers when engaging with policymakers and influencing the policy process.
He Pikinga Waiora Implementation Framework
This framework, centred on Indigenous knowledge, philosophy, and methods from New Zealand’s Kaupapa Māori, provides a co-design approach to implementation.
From our case studies
In this final section of the learning pathway, you will dive into real-world case studies that demonstrate how stakeholder engagement plays out in practice. After exploring various lectures, resources, and publications, these case studies will provide practical examples of how diverse stakeholders have been successfully involved in scaling up interventions, shaping policies, and ensuring sustainable impact. These examples will help consolidate your understanding of the strategies and challenges involved in stakeholder engagement, offering insights that can be applied to your own research and projects.
Scaling up of physical activity interventions at the national level in Brazil
The case demonstrates how involving multiple sectors—government, health, and community groups—was essential to the success of the nationwide expansion of the ‘Academia da Cidade’ physical activity programme.
From GACD's impact case studies
GACD impact case studies highlight where GACD-funded research is helping to drive the changes necessary to tackle NCDs in different parts of the world. Below are three case studies that illustrate the importance of stakeholder engagement.
Scaling-up community-led diabetes and NCD awareness and response in Bangladesh
The project team engaged with governmental, service providers and non-governmental stakeholders at the sub-district, district and national level to explore contextual barriers and enablers.
Strengthening collaboration between healthcare providers and communities for hypertension and diabetes prevention and control in Vietnam
The SUNI–SEA project developed a comprehensive approach, linking community groups, primary health care facilities and decision-makers in a joint programme to improve the prevention and management of NCDs
Transforming Mental Health: Standardising the treatment, prevention, and management of depression in China
The project team collaborated with policymakers from the project’s inception, regularly reporting project progress to the public health department, sharing findings with policymakers, and discussing how they can be integrated into the subsequent health policies and plans.
To access GACD’s growing number of impact case studies, click here.
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