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3.1. Stakeholders Engagement

Globally, a range of measures are used to constructively engage multiple

stakeholders throughout the HTA process. Stakeholder engagement is an iterative
process of actively soliciting the knowledge, experience, value judgment of

stakeholders identified to represent a broad range of direct interests in a particular

issue.

Purpose:
The purpose of stakeholder engagement would be to identify relevant

stakeholders and involve them in the ongoing study to obtain their views, ideas, data

available with them or feedback on the data/information used in the study as well as

any findings from the study.

Types of Engagement
Engagement with stakeholders could be at three levels:

i. Information Gathering – This involves participation of stakeholders in order to

collect information regarding data available to them.

ii. Consultation – This involves the feedback from stakeholders on specific

documents or findings and address them appropriately.
iii. Participation – This involves stakeholder’s participation in certain study topics

actively to ensure their concerns are understood and considered, and to give them

some influence on and ownership of decisions such as to the User Department or

other Government Agencies.

Depending on the nature of interest, expertise and relevance to the HTA study,

different strategies of stakeholder engagement are employed. For example:

 User department participate throughout the study especially during framing the

research question, aims and objectives. User Department along with other

Government organizations are asked to participate for sharing the data available

to them.
 Researchers and clinicians participate often during the course of study, for their

expert opinions and guidance.

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