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Table 1 Summary of roles of stakeholders in KT related to health policy development in Uganda

From: The roles and influence of actors in the uptake of evidence: the case of malaria treatment policy change in Uganda

Stakeholder

Roles

Challenges to overcome

Links that need to be built

CSOs

-Uptake of evidence in policy development and implementation

-Need skills in navigating the political terrain, networking, and engaging policymakers

-Links among CSOs, researchers, and policymakers

-Dissemination of evidence

-Must be provided with clear and simplified formats to avoid misrepresenting the evidence

-Advocating for evidence implementation

-Must be funded independently of the government

 

Policymakers

-Uptake of evidence in policy development

-Capacity to synthesise evidence

-Links between policymakers and researchers

-Establishing platforms for KT and playing a leadership role

  

Media

-Dissemination of evidence

-Need to be provided with evidence in simplified and preferably written formats

-Links between researchers and the media

Parliamentarians

-Dissemination of evidence

-Require targeted dissemination to parliamentarians

-Links among researchers and parliamentarians

-Community mobilisation

 

Communities

-Participation in research processes

-Putting into place community structures to enable their participation in research processes

-Links between communities and researchers

Donors

-Funding research and implementation of evidence

-Governments must establish structures for developing research agendas through inclusive participatory partnerships

 

Researchers

-Evidence generation

-Focusing on academic interests

 
  1. Source: Nabyonga Orem et al. [30].