Activity: Stakeholder Interview
In order to encourage participants to delve deeper into understanding stakeholder perspectives, this activity asks each participant to interview 2-4 different key stakeholders about the program, its model and future evaluation work. Participants should begin by identifying key stakeholders whom they would be interested in interviewing. Possibilities include: program, participants, staff, funders, collaborators and community leaders, among others. Once a list of possible interviewees has been generated, they should each be contacted by the interviewer. During this initial conversation, an explanation of this activity and how the stakeholder might contribute should be provided. If the interviewer plans to record the interview, the stakeholder should be informed of this and a time and date for the interview should be established. The working group should then create a list of questions for the interview based on the list provided in the Appendix, as well as plan for how the responses will be captured. Example questions include, “How would you describe this program?” “What do you think are the most important outcomes?” and “Looking ahead to evaluation, what do you think will be the most important questions to explore?”