Systematic literature syntheses are a key element in the scientific realm, considering steadily growing amount of available knowledge. Involving stakeholders research process brings wide range advantages, like broadening perspectives on problem question, increasing relevance results for policy- and decision-making, public other end-users thus enhancing impact acceptance research. While particip...

Stakeholder participation in environmental management is increasing. Staff of environmental agencies, however, often lack training in communication and in conducting participatory processes. Their interpretation of “participation” is of interest because interpretation affects how participation is practiced. We explored how participation was interpreted within the Soil Conservation Service of Ic...

BACKGROUND Community participation in in health programme planning, implementation and quality improvement was recently recommended in guidelines to improve use of skilled care during pregnancy, childbirth and the postnatal period for women and newborns. How to implement community participation effectively remains unclear. In this article we explore different factors. METHODS We conducted a s...

The value of engaging stakeholders for locally relevant responses and sustainable gains in disease control programs has been increasingly acknowledged. As opposed to a traditional top-down implementation of malaria intervention strategies, community bottom up initiatives require that all stakeholders be identified and strategies of engagement are designed at an early stage of program planning, ...

OBJECTIVE Since 2003, the Chinese National Health and Family Planning Commission (formerly the Ministry of Health) has implemented changes to more effectively communicate risk during public health emergencies. In spite of ongoing improvements, provincial and sub-provincial leaders face barriers, such as established modes of operation, lack of training, shortage of trained risk communicators, an...

If public policy making is viewed as a negotiation process, the complexity of this process will increase roughly in proportion with the number of stakeholders involved, the variety of their interests, the variety of available options, and the time frame within which decisions are to be made. The complexity of the negotiation process also depends on the extent to which information on each of the...

Contaminated sediments and other sites present a difficult challenge for environmental decisionmakers. They are typically slow to recover or attenuate naturally, may involve multiple regulatory agencies and stakeholder groups, and engender multiple toxicological and ecotoxicological risks. While environmental decision-making strategies over the last several decades have evolved into increasingl...

The Whanau Development Project (WDP) is a three-year initiative of the New Zealand Government that gives effect to its “Reducing Inequalities” and “Capacity Building” policies for Maori. The WDP, and its participatory-focused evaluation, put into effect a Ministry of Social Development (MSD) partnership approach to engaging Maori communities and improving social service delivery generally. Twel...

Tourism planning is widely considered to be a highly political process, particularly when tourism is only one of a number of possible land uses and there are numerous stakeholders, with a diversity of interests, all trying to influence the outcome. The winners are typically those holding power, while the losers are often the destination community, who lack sufficient power to influence planning...