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Question

Sometimes stakeholders have different priorities and perspectives. One group might think that the purpose of after-school programs is to help students do better in schools, and another group might see the purpose as helping students improve their social skills, while another may see it as "childcare" while the parents complete their workday. Taking into account all stakeholders perspectives mean acknowledging and exploring the effects of the program on all these outcomes. This provides a more complete picture of the program's true effects, enabling decision makers to make more informed decisions than if they only explored outcomes important to one stakeholder. The greater number of knowledgeable stakeholders you can include, the more concept you will have from those closer to the situation. That added information will strengthen the quality of your research and your ability to build a knowledge map that is useful to that community for understanding, collaborating, and working together to solve their shared problems. Collaboration Collaboration is working purposefully with others toward goals that are shared and/or goals that are interrelated (different but mutually supporting). Collaboration is critical for effective research and for positive social change. By adding more concepts and casual connections to the map, the stakeholders.