Engaging stakeholders with evidence and uncertainty

Increasing evidence use

Sandy Oliver

EPPI-Centre, University College London

Conceptual paper

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This is a conceptual paper presenting a framework to determine the most appropriate approaches to engaging stakeholders given different types and degrees of uncertainty. It will generate a practical guide about choice and application of stakeholder engagement models for impact evaluation and synthesis.

Qualitative work will be carried out to assess different models for stakeholder engagement.

Stakeholder engagement models

The paper will provide practical advice to evaluators and producers of evidence synthesis for enhancing their capability to effectively engage stakeholders. Stakeholder engagement is unanimously considered a key factor influencing the use of evidence for informing decision-making.