ARCH Stakeholder Mapping Report

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may impact on programme success, categorise stakeholders according to their (potential) role in the project, assess acceptability of the project, set a plan for engaging with stakeholders throughout the project, and account for potential risks to the project and consider appropriate mitigation strategies. 2.1 Methodology A scoping exercise was undertaken to define the methodology. This revealed that stakeholder mapping methodologies varied among projects and contexts, and, as such, there was no one standard methodology in literature (2,3,12–15,4–11) . Nevertheless, most approaches analysed followed the steps of snowballing 2 , and categorising stakeholders according to their power or influence and interest in the project. Therefore, The Global Health Network adapted and developed a stakeholder mapping methodology based on different steps of such similar methodologies in literature and supplemented the steps with an online survey. The ultimate steps were: 1. Defining the initial context and scope of the project and stakeholder mapping 2. Preliminary identification and categorisation of stakeholders 3. Stakeholder mapping workshop 4. Online survey Defining the initial scope of the mapping exercise included defining the types of organisations, the focus of disease area, and the locations of individuals and organisations as well as the scale they work at (for example national/regional/global). ARCH is a global programme that is interested in any health area, and as such, it was agreed that the programme would be open to all actors working in any health areas. Next, we identified anticipated stakeholder categories (researchers, academia, policy makers, policy networks, and health professionals) that were involved in research uptake using guidance from a literature review (2,3,6,8–11,15–17) . Working with the ARCH partners, a list of known and partner stakeholders were invited to a three stakeholder mapping workshops organised by The Global Health Network. For those participants that were unable to attend the workshops, they were invited to take a stakeholder mapping survey containing similar exercises from the workshops. Stakeholder mapping workshop In March 2021, The Global Health Network held three virtual workshops with representatives of the initial stakeholder groups (2,8,9,12) following time zones in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the workshops were hosted virtually, using the Zoom video conferencing system. The objectives of these workshops were to understand: i. how individuals understand the term “research uptake” ii. the roles of different stakeholders in relation to research uptake iii. how different types of stakeholders are perceived iv. the levels of power and interest stakeholders have regarding research uptake v. stakeholder relationships and how they work together In preparation for the workshop, participants were given a pre-workshop exercise in which each participant had to consider the research uptake landscape and stakeholders in their context. On the day of the workshop, an introduction of the programme and stakeholder mapping activity was given to participants. Participants were asked to 2 Identifying a wider list of stakeholders and stakeholder categories by starting with a few stakeholders that identify new stakeholders (19) 4
1) explore what research uptake meant and brainstorm other potential better terms that could be used. 2) identify other relevant stakeholders they thought were involved in some way in research uptake in their context or generally. 3) indicate the stakeholders’ governance levels, key interest, and how they interacted with research uptake. To achieve this, participants used the ‘Mendelow’s Power-Interest Matrix’ (15) ; placing the stakeholders in the matrix they most likely belong to, in order to give a visual representation of their positionality in the project, while noting the reasoning behind that characterisation. High power Low interest Action: Keep satisfied High power High interest Action: Manage closely Low power Low interest Action: Minimum effort Low power High interest Action: Keep informed Both the stakeholder snowballing, and analyses were facilitated using Miro, a virtual-group-writing board. Online stakeholder mapping survey An online form was shared to participants that were unable to attend the workshop with the aim of supplementing the workshop data. The survey was open from 12 th March to 29 th April 2021. Questions sought information about participants’ demographics, how they understood the term “research uptake”, and then asked them to identify stakeholders in research uptake and analysing them according to power and interest in research uptake. Responses were submitted electronically, and subsequently downloaded into an Excel spreadsheet for analysis. An output from this exercise is that we developed a stakeholder mapping tool containing a step-by-step guide to stakeholder mapping in research uptake, that other groups can adapt and use. This tool, and the methodology was adapted from several methodologies identified in the stakeholder mapping methodology scoping exercise. The tool can be downloaded for free. 2.2 Results Workshop Participants: Ten, Eight, and twenty-four individuals attended the stakeholder mapping workshops in Latin America, Asia, and Africa, respectively. A total of 11 responses to the online survey were recorded between 12 th March 2021 and 29 th April 2021. 5
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