Hi,

Here comes the context:

A stakeholder is someone who has made a significant investment in the
program, either financial or psychological. Taxpayers qua taxpayers areusually below the threshold of significance, unless there has been high visibility and much political discussion (e.g., the space program). Program staff are stakeholders. (A school board that told a superintendent to get an evaluation done of some program in the district is a stakeholder, not a client.)

Celia