The tools in this section offer practical advice and guidance to successfully identify, approach and engage the key stakeholders from the public, private and civil society sectors. They also provide a snapshot of the multi-stakeholder process and suggest ways that barriers and challenges could be overcome.

Transparency around medicine and its supply chain is a sensitive issue. At best, there may be a little existing dialogue between these stakeholders; at worst, they may consider themselves ‘adversaries’. 

Bringing these stakeholders together, building trust and developing an effective working relationship takes time and commitment – but MeTA has shown it to be possible. MeTA has adapted proven methodologies for identifying and analysing the existing groups and understanding their issues, inter- relationships and the drivers that can motivate them to become engaged.

These tools need to be applied sensitively – taking the context of the country into account - but they can help to bring the stakeholders together on terms that they understand and create a new and unique sense of responsibility, accountability and ambition.

Core Tools:

• Assessing Multi-Stakeholder Processes
• Routine Country-Reporting Templates

Additional Tools:

• Computer-Assisted Political Analysis - PolicyMaker 4 Software
• Communication Toolkit