Stakeholder analysis in urban-planetary health research: The Key Group Approach

The final approach and toolkit includes a step-by-step process over three rounds of iterative and integrated research activity, combined with supporting checklists, principles, categories and questions. Teams seeking to involve stakeholders in urban development or similar planetary health research can use these to interrogate their samples in order to understand both representativeness and alignment to programme theory and mission. No context is the same, so each approach needs to be tailored to suit. We describe common principles, and an example of how the toolkit was applied in our research study. We reflect on the process using the points for discussion identified, and demonstrate how analysing our sample in this way helped us to understand and identify both strengths and limitations.