Initiatives with larger numbers of objectives, investments, and participating stakeholder groups all reported significantly higher numbers of positive outcomes, suggesting significant value in the core precepts of the integrated landscape management approach.
Hospitals with a participating stakeholder varied in size and location (Table 1).
It is envisioned by all participating stakeholders and ICTM participants that the biobank initiatives will become the future gateway to discover new frontiers within life science, patient care and catalyzing the two way road of TM [29].
Areas addressed at this session involving 53 participants included: analysis of stakeholders; needs of the participating stakeholders; involvement of stakeholders in network activities; science-policy interface.
Sometimes these costs can be subsumed within the existing budgets of the convenor and the participating stakeholders.
A very functional tool for providing organizational support throughout the process is, for instance, to install secretariat-like bodies responsive to the individual needs of participating stakeholders.
A USDA spokesman said: "By law, USDA's agricultural marketing service [the division that employed Glasshoff, then the USDA's head of shell eggs] is charged with providing oversight, ensuring fiscal responsibility, program efficiency, and fair treatment of participating stakeholders.
Using a responsive evaluation approach this study was based on interviews with participating stakeholders and transcripts of the CoP meetings with 13 professionals, project managers and patient representatives.
Two more specific criteria can be distilled from the aim of capacity building: (1) the diverse participating stakeholders should have the chance to learn not only how to approach different information and knowledge properly, but also how to integrate and synthesize different kinds of knowledge in a scientifically sound, collaborative and policy-relevant manner (internal capacity building).
Further directions to improve and expand the process are also discussed, with attention paid to the design of the process as it relates to promoting an implied concept of "goodness" or "fairness" of compromise along with the ability of the process to incorporate advanced interactive technology to improve knowledge retention and understanding of the participating stakeholders.
For the detailed list of participating stakeholders, see Appendix B.
