In order to recruit suitably large numbers of patients, and because individual randomisation was unlikely to be acceptable to stakeholders, cluster randomisation was used [ 14].
A formal effectiveness evaluation will be conducted via focus-group discussions with key stakeholders, including cluster community leaders, study co-ordinators, project officers and study participants after the intervention to assess the implementation of the intervention, to evaluate the sustainability and identify enablers and barriers.
The overall objective of the project is to gain insight into the perceptions, experiences and understandings of cluster headache from the perspective of three key stakeholder groups: the cluster headache patients, GPs and neurologists.
Overall, we found a great deal of correspondence between different stakeholder groups' average cluster ratings, such that a strong correlation existed from group to group on the conceptual areas that emerged as being of highest importance and those considered less important, indicating similarity in the stakeholder-derived patterns across the elements of the evaluation framework.
"Uganda's achievements in fighting the epidemic cannot be attributed to a single stakeholder or even a cluster of stakeholders, but the collective efforts of all".
We also analysed the response of key stakeholders individually (not clustered per hospital) as stakeholders may have possible differences in views on ASP interventions (even within hospitals).
Country preparedness activities include planning for emergency staff deployment, pre-positioning of strategic supplies and preparation of pre-approved contracts with local implementation partners (such as water trucking companies) and suppliers, as well as advance coordination arrangements with government partners and other stakeholders through the cluster approach.
Many clearly recognizable co-development clusters of business stakeholders faded in 2014 towards a more uniform picture.
Tools commonly used Generic – brainstorming, STEEP analysis, clustering, matrices, system dynamics, and stakeholder analysis [2].
As an alternative to complex, technologically sophisticated LUP models that local stakeholders cannot use or replicate, a communication platform supporting negotiations among multiple stakeholder groups was tested in a village cluster in Luang Prabang Province in northern Laos.
