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Relative to governmental stakeholders, the responses to indicated lower levels of involvement for non-governmental stakeholder groups. According to the self-assessment survey, the private sector and interest groups have been treated similarly across all stages of the policy process relative to other stakeholder groups. The main focus of their involvement has been on information exchange and consultation, but more active forms of involvement have also been reported. For example in policy development, 10 and 11 countries (out of 27) have reported active involvement of the private sector and interest groups, respectively. Also in monitoring and evaluation of adaptation policies, countries have reported the involvement of interest groups to be slightly more active relative to the private sector. The implementation stage has offered some opportunities for involvement of the private sector and interest groups, but deeper forms of involvement have been used in less than a fifth of the responding countries (Figure 2.14).