Visits | Visit 1—(4 months prior to implementation) | Visit 2—(3 months prior to implementation) | Visit 3—(2 months prior to implementation) |
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Research team | Management team | Engagement team | Technical team |
 Program leads, program manager |  Systems modelling manager, economics lead, evaluation research manager |  Program lead, systems modelling manager, systems modellers | |
Objectives | 1. Rapport building | 1. Rapport building | 1. Rapport building |
2. Political landscape discussion | 2. Participatory process preparation | 2. Early discussion of model scope and decision support priorities | |
3. Identification of key policy makers for site | 3. Identification of key stakeholders that will be part of the model building process | 3. Data preparation and discussion of shell tables | |
4. Determining best methods for community engagement | 4. Identification of super-users of systems modelling | 4. Shell tables will need to be contextualised based on how models will be stratified per region | |
5. Research collaboration agreement review | 5. Evaluation framework preparation | Â | |
6. Site visit plan discussed | 6. Economic data preparation | Â |