This document provides guidance on stakeholder analysis, which is an important tool for conservation projects. It defines stakeholders as those with interests in natural resources or who will be impacted by a project. Conducting stakeholder analysis can help identify key stakeholders, potential conflicts, engagement opportunities, and appropriate engagement strategies. The analysis should be done at the start of a project during planning and situation analysis, and continued throughout the project cycle to engage stakeholders and monitor engagement effectiveness. The key steps in analysis are: 1) Identifying stakeholders and their interests; 2) Assessing influence, importance, and impact on stakeholders; and 3) Identifying engagement strategies. Workshops, interviews and focus groups can aid analysis.
The concepts and processes on how to perform project stakeholder management according to PMBOK Guide 6th edition. You'll find key concepts and terms, identify stakeholders, plan stakeholder management, manage stakeholders, and monitor stakeholders.
The concepts and processes on how to perform project stakeholder management according to PMBOK Guide 6th edition. You'll find key concepts and terms, identify stakeholders, plan stakeholder management, manage stakeholders, and monitor stakeholders.
The Stakeholder Engagement tool helps ensure that the appropriate stakeholders in decision processes have been identified and involved.
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PMP Chap 13 - Project stakeholder management OverviewAnand Bobade
PMP Chap 13 - Project stakeholder management Overview
When working on a project, there are many people or organizations that are dependent on and/or are affected by the final product or output. These people are the stakeholders of a project.
Stakeholder management involves taking into consideration the different interests and values stakeholders have and addressing them during the duration of the project to ensure that all stakeholders are happy at the end.
This branch of management is important because it helps an organization to achieve its strategic objectives by involving both the external and internal environments and by creating a positive relationship with stakeholders through good management of their expectations.
Stakeholder management is also important because it helps identify positive existing relationships with stakeholders. These relationships can be converted to coalitions and partnerships, which go on to build trust and encourage collaboration among the stakeholders.
How you are perceived internally depends to a certain extent on how all your stakeholders view your service. Don’t miss out on an influential group just because they are not an obvious counterpart. Use matrix-type thinking to evaluate the impact of each stakeholder segment, and target them according to their influence.
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The Stakeholder Engagement tool helps ensure that the appropriate stakeholders in decision processes have been identified and involved.
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PMP Chap 13 - Project stakeholder management OverviewAnand Bobade
PMP Chap 13 - Project stakeholder management Overview
When working on a project, there are many people or organizations that are dependent on and/or are affected by the final product or output. These people are the stakeholders of a project.
Stakeholder management involves taking into consideration the different interests and values stakeholders have and addressing them during the duration of the project to ensure that all stakeholders are happy at the end.
This branch of management is important because it helps an organization to achieve its strategic objectives by involving both the external and internal environments and by creating a positive relationship with stakeholders through good management of their expectations.
Stakeholder management is also important because it helps identify positive existing relationships with stakeholders. These relationships can be converted to coalitions and partnerships, which go on to build trust and encourage collaboration among the stakeholders.
How you are perceived internally depends to a certain extent on how all your stakeholders view your service. Don’t miss out on an influential group just because they are not an obvious counterpart. Use matrix-type thinking to evaluate the impact of each stakeholder segment, and target them according to their influence.
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27 June - 1 July 2016. Asaba, Nigeria. Workshop organised by the PAEPARD supported consortium: Knowledge transfer towards cost–effective poultry feeds production from processed cassava products to improve the productivity of small-scale farmers in Nigeria
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Stakeholder Involvement In Evaluation Planning
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Stakeholders are the people that are at stake on the evaluation. They are individuals that have interest in or are impacted by evaluation and its results. I would consider involving stakeholders in health program planning. Stakeholders have the ability to provide ideas and aidin the creation of potential solutions (Ferreira,et al., 2020). In most cases stakeholders are from various backgrounds; they therefore look at issues from various perspectives.this allows opposing viewpoints to be expressed and also discussed. Engaging stakeholders from the planning stage, maximizes the chance of project success through the final execution. They may as well aid in preventing unforeseen problems (Michnej, & Zwolinski, 2018). They have a great influence on the community of animal lovers, thus it is imperative to have an advocate instead of an adversary.
I would consider facilitating stakeholder’s involvement through maintaining open communication. The stakeholders need to be updated on the organization’s core purpose. It is essential to be consistent in the messages, and use them to show employees how they fit in the plan as well as how their contributions have aided in shaping the decisions made (Smith, 2017). Individuals that know what is expected as well as how they contribute tend to be more engaged and committed in comparison to those that do not. It is essential to ensure that the stakeholders know where they fit in. engaging employees in the planning process aids in building ownership in the firm.
References
Ferreira, V., Barreira, A. P., Loures, L., Antunes, D., & Panagopoulos, T. (2020). Stakeholders’ engagement on nature-based solutions: A systematic literature review. Sustainability, 12(2), 640.
Michnej, M., & Zwoliński, T. (2018). The role and responsibility of stakeholders in the planning process of the sustainable urban mobility in the city Krakow. Transport Economics and Logistics, 80, 159-167.
Smith, P. A. (2017). Stakeholder engagement framework. Information & Security, 38, 35-45.
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Stakeholder
Analysis
October 2005
Resources for Implementing the WWF Standards
2. Contents
What Is Stakeholder Analysis?............................................................................................ 1
Why Stakeholder Analysis Is Important ............................................................................. 1
When to Use Stakeholder Analysis ..................................................................................... 1
How to Develop and Use Stakeholder Analysis................................................................. 2
1. Identifying the key stakeholders and their interests (positive or negative) in the project ..........2
2. Assessing the influence and importance of each stakeholder as well as the potential impact of
the project upon each stakeholder .................................................................................................4
3. Identifying how best to engage stakeholders ...........................................................................4
General Lessons............................................................................................................................5
References............................................................................................................................. 6
This document is intended as a resource to support the implementation of the WWF Standards of
Conservation Project and Programme Management. Stakeholder analysis is an important
component of many of the steps in these standards.
This document may change over time; the most recent version can be accessed at:
https://intranet.panda.org/documents/folder.cfm?uFolderID=60976
Written by: Bronwen Golder, WWF-US and Meg Gawler, ARTEMIS Services.
Edited by: Foundations of Success
Please address any comments to Sheila O’Connor (soconnor@wwfint.org).
3. Stakeholder Analysis
What Is Stakeholder Analysis?
A “stakeholder” can be defined as:
Any individual, group, or institution who has a vested interest in the natural resources of the
project area and/or who potentially will be affected by project activities and have something
to gain or lose if conditions change or stay the same.
Stakeholders are all those who need to be considered in achieving project goals and whose
participation and support are crucial to its success. Stakeholder analysis identifies all primary and
secondary stakeholders who have a vested interest in the issues with which the project or policy is
concerned. The goal of stakeholder analysis is to develop a strategic view of the human and
institutional landscape, and the relationships between the different stakeholders and the issues they
care about most.
Why Stakeholder Analysis Is Important
Ultimately, all projects depend on selecting stakeholders with whom they can jointly work towards
goals that will reduce or reverse the threats to your key conservation targets.
A stakeholder analysis can help a project or programme identify:
• The interests of all stakeholders who may affect or be affected by the programme/project;
• Potential conflicts or risks that could jeopardise the initiative;
• Opportunities and relationships that can be built on during implementation;
• Groups that should be encouraged to participate in different stages of the project;
• Appropriate strategies and approaches for stakeholder engagement; and
• Ways to reduce negative impacts on vulnerable and disadvantaged groups.
The full participation of stakeholders in both project design and implementation of is a key to – but
not a guarantee of – success. Stakeholder participation:
• Gives people some say over how projects or policies may affect their lives;
• Is essential for sustainability;
• Generates a sense of ownership if initiated early in the development process;
• Provides opportunities for learning for both the project team and stakeholders themselves; and
• Builds capacity and enhances responsibility.
When to Use Stakeholder Analysis
Stakeholder analysis can be undertaken throughout all stages of the project cycle, but it definitely
should be undertaken at the outset of a project or programme. In particular, during the Define phase,
stakeholder analysis is a crucial component of situation analysis (Step 1.4 in the WWF Standards of
Conservation Project and Programme Management). As you go through your situation analysis,
stakeholder analysis provides a preliminary identification of key stakeholders, indicating who is
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important and influential and how they can be involved in the programme. During the Design phase
(Step 2.1), a detailed stakeholder analysis, involving all key stakeholders, will help shape the
development of strategic actions and inform risk analysis. In the Implement phase (Step 3.4, in
particular), stakeholder analysis will help identify who, how and when stakeholders should be
involved in project/programme activities. Later, during the Analyze/Adapt and Share phases, the
stakeholder analysis serves as a reminder, providing a benchmark against which projects can monitor
and evaluate the effectiveness of their engagement with stakeholders, both supportive and opposing.
Stakeholder analysis is also an appropriate time to explore whether or not gender will be a factor in
the elaboration and implementation of future efforts. It is well documented that discrimination by
gender is likely to diminish the impact and effectiveness of projects and policies. Furthermore, the
inclusion of women as stakeholders has the potential to achieve both better management of the
resource base and improved community welfare. Gender analysis involves the assessment of:
• The distribution of tasks, activities, and rewards associated with the division of labour at a
particular locality or across a region;
• The relative positions of women and men in terms of representation and influence; and
• The benefits and disincentives associated with the allocation of tasks to women and men.
How to Develop and Use Stakeholder Analysis
Given the potential impact of stakeholder attitudes and influence on the success of a project, it is often
best to ensure a wide scope of the stakeholder analysis during the Define and Design phases to make
sure that legitimate stakeholder interests and concerns are effectively addressed during the Implement
and Analyze/Adapt phases.
There are a number of ways of undertaking a stakeholder analysis. Workshops, focus groups and
interviews are three common approaches. During the course of the project cycle you may use all three,
matching the technique to the evolving needs of the project. Whatever approach is used, there are
three essential steps in stakeholder analysis: 1) Identifying the key stakeholders and their interests
(positive or negative) in the project; 2) Assessing the influence of, importance of, and level of impact
upon each stakeholder; and 3) Identifying how best to engage stakeholders. We describe key
questions to ask at each of these steps and provide an example of a tool.
1. Identifying the key stakeholders and their interests (positive or negative) in
the project
As outlined in the Basic Guidance to Situation Analysis, any given threat or opportunity factor has
one or more stakeholder groups associated with it. To analyse stakeholder groups, you can thus either
start with your situation analysis and think about the key stakeholders associated with each, or start
with an analysis of the stakeholders and then link them to specific threat and opportunity factors.
Some of the key questions you should ask at this step include:
• How are the threatened project targets being used? By whom? Who is threatening the
conservation target?
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• Who is most dependent on the resources at stake? Is this a matter of livelihood or economic
advantage? Are these resources replaceable by other resources?
• Who possesses claims – including legal jurisdiction and customary use – over the resources at
stake? Are several government sectors and ministry departments involved? Are there national
and/or international bodies involved because of specific laws or treaties?
• Who are the people or groups most knowledgeable about, and capable of dealing with, the
resources at stake? Who is managing these resources? With what results?
• Are the stakeholders and their interests geographically and seasonally stable, or are there
migration patterns?
• Are there major events or trends currently affecting the stakeholders (e.g., development
initiatives, land reforms, migration, population growth)?
• Has there been a similar initiative in the region? If so, to what extent did it succeed? Who was
in charge and how did local stakeholders respond?
A useful tool for this first step – identifying the key stakeholders and their interests – is given in the
table below. Begin by brainstorming all possible stakeholders using the above questions as a guide.
Then research the human environment. Talk to various stakeholders, and ask them who they would
see as potential stakeholders for the initiative in question. Your list of stakeholders may grow or
shrink as your analysis progresses, and your understanding deepens. Next try to learn about each
stakeholder group in as much depth as possible.
To fill out the first column in the matrix below, list the stakeholders in relation to the above list of
questions. Number your stakeholders for easy reference. Then describe the stake or mandate of each
stakeholder in the second column. The mandate refers to the nature and limits of each stakeholder’s
stake in the resource (e.g. livelihoods, profit, lifestyles, cultural values, spiritual values, etc.), and the
basis of that stake (e.g. customary rights, ownership, administrative or legal responsibilities,
intellectual rights, social obligation, etc.). For each stakeholder, describe their potential role in the
project in column 3. Then note in column 4 if the stakeholder is marginalized, e.g. women, indigenous
peoples, ethnic minorities, youth, or other impoverished or disenfranchised groups. Marginalized
stakeholders lack the recognition or capacity to participate in collaboration efforts on an equal basis,
and particular effort must be made to ensure and enable their participation. In the last column decide
who are the key stakeholders, i.e., those who – because of claims over or direct dependence on the
resources, or their power, authority, or responsibility – are central to the initiative at hand. Their
participation is critical.
Table 1. Stakeholder Analysis Matrix
Potential Role in Margina-
Stakeholders Stake / Mandate Key?
Project lized?
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2. Assessing the influence and importance of each stakeholder as well as the
potential impact of the project upon each stakeholder
Key questions for this second step in a stakeholder analysis include:
• Who is directly responsible for decisions on issues important to the project?
• Who holds positions of responsibility in interested organizations?
• Who is influential in the project area (both thematic and geographic areas)?
• Who will be affected by the project?
• Who will promote/support the project, provided that they are involved?
• Who will obstruct/hinder the project if they are not involved?
• Who has been involved in the area (thematic or geographic) in the past?
• Who has not been involved up to now but should have been?
To continue with the second step of the stakeholder analysis – assessing the influence, importance,
and level of impact upon each stakeholder – a simple grid is shown in Figure 1 that can be useful for
thinking through how different types of stakeholders might be engaged. It organizes stakeholders
according to their likely influence over decisions to be made, and the likely impact of project
decisions upon them.
This analysis can be done using pieces of paper or cards on a table top or wall with the matrix written
up on flipchart, as follows:
1. Identify stakeholders and write them on cards (one per card).
2. Organize and agree placement of cards on the matrix.
3. Consider relationships (e.g. responsibilities, rights, levels of conflict) within and between
stakeholders in each area of the matrix.
4. Consider potential strategies (approaches, methods) for engaging different stakeholders in
each area. The approaches in indicate common (but definitely not exclusive) approaches of
engagement.
The following questions may prove useful when considering where stakeholders sit on the
Influence/Impact analysis quadrant):
• Are they likely to influence the success or failure of your project?
• What is their relationship with WWF?
• What is their relationship with the project?
• Where are they now versus where you think they should be on the Influence/Impact quadrant?
3. Identifying how best to engage stakeholders
Finally, the third step involves determining how to involve the different stakeholders. Different types
of stakeholders will be engaged in different ways in the various stages of the project, from gathering
and giving information, to consultation, dialogue, working together, and partnership.
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Figure 1. Stakeholder Analysis Grid
Note that the lines of the grid are not hard and fast boundaries – they are for guidance only.
This third step in the stakeholder analysis is covered in Step 3.4 of the Standards, which focuses on
partnerships. Determining who needs or wants to be involved, and when and how that involvement
can be achieved provides the basis for developing collaborations. Once stakeholder views are
understood, a decision can be made on whether to pursue collaboration.
The importance of the process in planning and conducting successful collaborations cannot be
overemphasized. Good-faith efforts are often derailed because the parties are not skilled in the
collaboration process, and because insufficient attention is given to designing and managing it. Using
an inclusive, transparent approach during project development and implementation will help build
ownership and commitment. If it is not possible or realistic to have all key stakeholders involved from
the outset, then a process for gradual involvement may be needed.
General Lessons
The increasing scope and ambition of many projects require a commitment to dialogue and
collaboration with a diverse range of stakeholders. Dialogue that is open and transparent is critical to
long-term success. Resource managers have learned a number of lessons in stakeholder collaboration,
namely that:
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The goals of any collaboration venture must be clarified before engaging stakeholders. Goals
help identify and target those interests that need to be represented in collaboration processes,
and those that can be left out.
It is fundamental that enough time be budgeted to explore stakeholder views, values and
perspectives so that an understanding of the human and institutional landscape can be established.
All key stakeholders must be involved in the design and implementation of policies and
projects if successful results are to be achieved.
Deciding who is “inside” or “outside” a collaboration process will always be relevant to
project outcomes and to their sustainability.
It is important that stakeholder participation not be exclusive, or controlled or dominated by
any one group.
All stakeholders will come to the process with their own biases.
Stakeholder collaboration is a process that requires the opportunity and space for participants
to listen to and learn from one another. It is important to create spaces for stakeholders to
come together to develop and share their visions and agendas.
Monitoring and evaluating the nature of the collaboration is as important as measuring
specific project outcomes
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Analyzing the Context of Projects and Programmes. World Conservation Union, Gland,
Switzerland. Available from:
http://www.iucn.org/themes/eval/documents2/situation_analysis/approach_and_method.pdf.
WWF. 2000. Stakeholder Collaboration: Building Bridges for Conservation. WWF Ecoregion
Conservation Strategies Unit, WWF US, Washington, DC, USA.
WWF. 2003. Ecoregion Action Programmes: A Guide for Practitioners. Section 3 Engaging
Stakeholders and Partners. WWF International, Gland, Switzerland. Available from:
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https://intranet.panda.org/documents/document.cfm?uFolderID=51380&uDocID=51065.
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Available from:
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