We work with different strategies and mechanisms to identify key stakeholders:
– CABs: we have organized some community advisory groups to identify those strategies to approach the rights stakeholders
– Informative meetings
– We brainstorm formal and informally with different stakeholders that we already have from other projects and research
– We review other researches, societies’ guidelines, standards and recommendations…
– We also try to think out of the book including other stakeholders not so common on this field, but collaborating to help in the research’s development
And we map them and plan our long-term relationship.
The assessment of each stakeholder’s importance to the project use to be based on ratings from the project team members of the stakeholder’s perceived power, proximity and urgency. We use different tools for the mapping managing.
As Anne was telling us during the webminar media involvement is crucial for these trials, not only to informa about the trial existence but also about specific information related an issue, not still available in the country as PrEP. We use some social media information resources and also we are involving other community media resources (mostly online) to disseminate information but also how things are going with these trials. But in this cases, the situation is a little bit weird because the community involvement is getting lower and sadly this is not an important issue for the most part of the other stakeholders and media.
