How can multiple stakeholders present challenge to evaluators?

What will be an ideal response?

Evaluators usually find that diverse individuals and groups have an interest in their work and its outcomes for a particular program. These stakeholders may hold competing and sometimes combative views about the appropriateness of the evaluation work and about whose interests will be affected by the outcome. To conduct their work effectively and contribute to the resolution of the issues at hand, evaluators must understand their relationships to the stakeholders involved as well as the relationships between stakeholders. Different stakeholders typically have different perspectives on the meaning and importance of an evaluation’s findings. These disparate viewpoints are a source of potential conflict not only between stakeholders themselves but also between these individuals and the evaluator. No matter how an evaluation comes out, there are often some for whom the findings are good news and some for whom they are bad news.