1) What is your experience with stakeholder mapping? How do you use stakeholder maps at your site? Discuss how you (and your colleagues) determine the importance of involving one stakeholder versus another. For example, how do you determine who constitutes your CAB?
Even thought I had said something on that topic yesterday, I think I forgot to mention that type or nature of the studies are also considered while you are recruiting CAB members or any other stakeholders, like for examples, if you do studies on family planning, you will need to include all health facilities in charge of family planning from grass root administration to the high level, which is Ministry of health. In Rwanda, all activities are decentralized, like for example, health facilities in charge of family planning are from Sector level to the Ministry level, and they work closely, as researcher you need stakeholders from each level, those from sector level, to help you in recruitment and retention of participants, those from Ministry level are to help you to make sure that study end with success, and they are also policy makers, which are an important part for research especially during dissemination of the study results.
As regards of stakeholder mapping: let take an example of High HIV incidence community mapping:
Sorry, I tried to use a table here which would be more visible on what I would like to share but it is not working. During community mapping, I think there are some important things to consider: With the example below community components, we may think of questions to direct or to prepare us on best way to chose community. From each example of community component and its created questions, we may obtain anticipated outcomes.
1. Community component: 2. Questions 3* Outcomes/discoveries/ observations/ problem areas.etc
*People: * …………………… *………………………………………………………………….
*Opportunities: *……………………. *……………………………………………………………
*Group: * ……………………. *…………………………………………………………….
*Community services: *………………………… *…………………………………………………………….
*Source of information: *……………………….. *…………………………………………………………….
*Employment and Industries: * …………………….. *…………………………………………………………….
*Cultural identity: *……………………… *…………………………………………………………….
