Finally, results highlighted the importance of stakeholder mapping at the outset, appropriate timing of stakeholder involvement and ongoing consideration of stakeholder perceptions.
The SDH-Net project activities were organized in three phases, as follows: The first activities undertaken were to establish an overview of SDH from both the local and global perspectives, and to conduct national mapping exercises to assess the needs of the related research systems through the analysis of its characteristics, stakeholders, institutions, and ongoing SDH activities.
This makes validation a process that includes end users as stakeholders, and requires ongoing monitoring of the real-world uses made of test scores.
Stakeholders' and users' ongoing involvement are integral to the successful execution of this proof of concept study.
This will require continued stakeholder engagement and ongoing coordination on the part of the conveners.
The WHO National eHealth Strategy Toolkit emphasizes the need for national level planning, stakeholder engagement, and ongoing monitoring and evaluation to propagate national strategy implementation processes for the use of ICTs to evaluate project maturity for readiness to scale up mHealth [ 1, 2].
These included engaging the main service stakeholders in the planning and ongoing implementation of the project through the Governance Group, distributing summary reports to participants, presentation of a mid-project report at various forums and meetings in the region, and maintaining a project blog.
This research identifies that the future implementation of industrial ecology opportunities requires strong and ongoing stakeholder involvement as described in this paper.
Suggested solutions to these tensions included early and ongoing stakeholder engagement in planning and evaluating health RCS, modelling of impact pathways and rapid assimilation of lessons learned for continuous improvement of decision making and programming.
