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Table 3 PPA workshop method: opportunities and challenges

From: Participatory policy analysis in health policy and systems research: reflections from a study in Nepal

Opportunities

Challenges

• Context suitability and acceptability

• Stakeholders’ influence on the process

• Possibility to generate comprehensive qualitative evidence

• Influence of power and literacy dynamics

• Ability to bridge gaps in understanding of practical/technical and political aspects of health/health system

• Raised expectations of researchers’ ability to address issues

• Applicability beyond “data collection” – PPA as intervention