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Step 1: Identify Stakeholders & Organize Your Steering Committee

What is this step?

Community-based evaluation is about facilitating relationships with people who have a stake in refugee sponsorship. We use the word "stakeholders" to describe these individuals or groups. This step builds a plan around stakeholder engagement.

This step asks the question: who are these stakeholders and how do we meaningfully involve them throughout the evaluation? There are three categories of stakeholders to consider: people with lived experience, influencers, and sustainers.

Identifying and engaging stakeholders from the beginning helps to build the trusting relationships that are needed for a successful evaluation.

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What do you need to do?

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Map your stakeholders to understand who you should involve in the evaluation

Form your steering committee who will guide each step of the evaluation

Consider involving newcomers as peer researchers on the research team

Start thinking about how else to involve stakeholders in later phases of the evaluation (e.g., as research participants, in feedback sessions, helping to implement recommendations)