The model, known as the LIAM (LIveability Assessment Model), is applied to a group of stakeholders selected among local experts and landscape planners in an Umbrian study area (Italy).
To this end, we define agent-based modeling and offer potential uses for it in typical evaluation activities, including: engaging stakeholders, selecting an intervention, modeling program theory, setting performance targets, and interpreting evaluation results.
The stakeholders selected included high influence stakeholder (with a high degree of interest on the ecosystem services׳ state and with an important influence into the environmental decision making process) and low influence stakeholders (with a high degree of interest on the ecosystem services׳ state and with a low influence in environmental management).
As part of a large-scale regionally funded collaboration in the Lombardy region of Italy, we report on processes through which a team of stakeholders selected, translated and culturally adapted, planned, implemented and evaluated the Life Skills Training (LST) school-based drug abuse prevention program, an evidence-based intervention developed in the United States.
The stakeholders selected for interview was determined in collaboration with the national CJF, depending on availability, geographical distance and other factors.
The survey respondents were drawn from a non-random purposeful sample of key stakeholders selected by lead MDAST project collaborators in each country (Division of Malaria Control in Kenya, Vector Control Division in Uganda, and the National Institute for Medical Research in Tanzania).
5, 9– 12 Semi-structured key informant interviews were conducted with 15 stakeholders selected because of their experience in the design, implementation, and evaluation of both small-scale and national level CHW programs in a range of low-income settings.
This work reports the results of semi-structured interviews with 15 international stakeholders, selected because of their experiences in CHW program implementation, to elicit their views on strategies that could increase CHW motivation and retention.
International stakeholders, selected for interviews based on their range of programme and research experience in diverse settings and continents, also identified supervision as a key intervention to improve the retention and motivation of CHWs [ 13].
We carried out four focus groups and thirteen semi-structured interviews with various park stakeholders to select attributes from six categories: the four categories of ecosystem services (supporting, provisioning, regulating, cultural), infrastructure, and land use types.
