The benefit I have experienced from stakeholder engagement are trust and mutual understanding.
In the process of Key Message Development, stakeholders were invited, some stakeholders from an organisation that we partner with, did not show up even after invitations was sent severally to them.When the final draft of the message developed was sent for approval, they rejected it without looking at it. The community engagement team paid advocacy visit to the Director General who was the head of the organization we were working with. When we got there, we gave updates on the study and other activities, leaving the rejected drafts for last,giving him the materials that were developed. After looking at it and asking questions he approved that the drafts can be printed as our key message for the trial. This was March this year.
