Peer-Reviewed Assignment -APA 6E Guide. To complete this assignment, the following instructions must be followed: The Rubric: read the attached peer-reviewed research paper in its entirety inyour own

Copyrighted©Material – Dr. John Bosire, PhD, LSS MBB Chapter Goals and Objectives Overall – students will learn and understand: ▪ consequences of complexity in the real -world, and meaningful ways to understand and manage such situations ▪ the implications of complexity and that many social systems are unpredictable by nature, especially when in the presence of structural change (transitions) ▪ natural tendency to criticize the approaches that ignore difficulties and pretend to predict using simplistic models ▪ that managing a complex system requires a good understanding of the dynamics of the system in question — to know, before they occur, some of the real possibilities that might occur and be ready so they can be reacted to as responsively as possible. Copyrighted©Material – Dr. John Bosire, PhD, LSS MBB 9 . Stakeholder Engagement in Policy Development: Observations and Lessons… ▪ identification of stakeholders, and the selection depends on the goals of engaging stakeholders. ▪ appropriate selection of stakeholders to involve can evolve over time, the identification and engagement of stakeholders is a continuous process ▪ stakeholder involvement to elicit views and interests in matters – during the process, notable shift to engage stakeholders to ensure commitment and facilitation building ▪ consensus among the stakeholder tools can take many different forms:

Copyrighted©Material – Dr. John Bosire, PhD, LSS MBB 9 . Stakeholder Engagement in Policy Development: Observations and Lessons… ▪ use of technology: important factor matching tools to objectives and capabilities of involved stakeholders ▪ stakeholder identification methods – purpose centric ▪ desk research, surveys, interviews, and stakeholder or interests mapping tools are useful approaches ▪ iterative stakeholder identification often helps create a more complete array of relevant stakeholders; combination with relevant literature shows purposes for stakeholder engagement that guide the selection of stakeholder types. ▪ transparency of the process, facilitating adoption, improve usefulness and usability of tools, enhance legitimacy, and purposes of stakeholder engagement Copyrighted©Material – Dr. John Bosire, PhD, LSS MBB References:

Janssen, M., et al. (eds.), Policy Practice and Digital Science, Public Administration and Information Technology 10, DOI 10.1007/978 -3-319 -12784 -2_1 Copyrighted©Material – Dr. John Bosire, PhD, LSS MBB