Table 3 Findings and recommendations
From: Barriers and drivers to stakeholder engagement in global mental health projects
Findings | Recommendations |
|---|---|
The importance of understanding context | Invest in high quality formative research |
Look for opportunities to “build back better” | |
The nature of engagement | Invest adequate time and funding to support engagement and trust-building |
Create opportunities for meaningful and active engagement by service users, providers and policy makers | |
Promote formal and participatory engagement of service users and evaluate outcomes of this engagement | |
Leverage existing resources and relationships | |
Communication and dissemination | Invest in informed mental health awareness raising and communication strategies |
Create mechanisms to support engagement from program inception | |
Invest in capacity development opportunities to support knowledge translation and communications activities by researchers | |
Invest in activities that promote mental health awareness and capacity building among policy makers |