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Title: | Framework for Reaction: the politics of evaluating North America's first safe injection site |
Authors: | Sterling, Joan Susan |
Advisor: | Baines, Donna |
Department: | Social Work |
Keywords: | Social Work;Social Work |
Publication Date: | 2005 |
Abstract: | <p>Program evaluation is inherently political, and the evaluation of a state-sponsored injection site for drug users especially so. Stakeholder analysis is one element of a comprehensive evaluation, one that usually takes place after the program has been in operation for some time. In the case of the City of Vancouver's decision to establish such a site, it was clear that there was already stakeholder opinion prior to the opening of the site. This study examines pre- and post-trial stakeholder opinion by reviewing media and other accounts of the pre-trial public debate, and by interviewing six major stakeholders eight months into the trial. Special attention was given to the issue of how to include the voice of a marginalized population in a stakeholder analysis, and four principles were proposed as a means to guide the stakeholder analysis piece of the initial evaluation of this highly controversial initiative.</p> |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/9779 |
Identifier: | opendissertations/4870 5893 2069530 |
Appears in Collections: | Open Access Dissertations and Theses |
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