It depends on the type of public engagement you need to assess: is it dialogue-based, such as public deliberation, or is it a form of engagement that is not dialogue-based, such as voting or volunteering? Given the broad range of ways people can be engaged, there is no single recipe for evaluating the effectiveness of stakeholder engagement in general. That said, Gene Rowe and colleagues have provided a helpful framework for evaluating the effectiveness of primarily dialogue-based public engagement exercises, and they have analyzed the evaluation framework for reliability, validity, and limitations (see attached article). Their work was developed through public debates about genetically modified food crops in the United Kingdom in 2003.

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Amanda

It depends on the type of public engagement you need to assess: is it dialogue-based, such as public deliberation, or is it a form of engagement that is not dialogue-based, such as voting or volunteering? Given the broad range of ways people can be engaged, there is no single recipe for evaluating the effectiveness of stakeholder engagement in general. That said, Gene Rowe and colleagues have provided a helpful framework for evaluating the effectiveness of primarily dialogue-based public engagement exercises, and they have analyzed the evaluation framework for reliability, validity, and limitations (see attached article). Their work was developed through public debates about genetically modified food crops in the United Kingdom in 2003.

Hope this helps!

Amanda

Thanks a lot, gabriela and amanda, 

for providing these references and the more concrete questions and descriptions. Both articles are helpful in framing and addting to our work and I appreatiate the discussion on that.

best regards Frieder