The document outlines a stakeholder mapping analysis for the UDW conference in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, led by Farah Ahmed, a research coordinator for IMPACTS-Asia. It poses key questions regarding critical stakeholders, beneficiaries, decision makers, and potential roadblocks, and suggests using a visual approach with colored post-its to categorize and link stakeholders according to their influence. Additional resources and tools for stakeholder analysis are provided, including references to matrices and frameworks from various organizations.

1. Photo:KannanArunasalam/IWMI
Name : Farah Ahmed
Research Coordinator for Impacts-
Asia
Date: 27.01.2016
Event :UDW Conference
Location: HCMC, Vietnam
Stakeholder Mapping Analysis

2. Questions that need to be discussed
Questions to keep in mind while discussing –
Q1.Which stakeholder is critical to be onboard for this project?
Q2. Which stakeholders are a direct beneficiaries to your research outcome?
Q2.Which stakeholders are the next users who could influence the ministries to initiate project level
activity?
Q3. Who are the key decision makers to implement the outcome of this project?
Q4. Who are the key partners to this project who might also be the roadblock to our outputs?
Q5. Who are the potential drivers of change?
Q6. Which stakeholder/individual is a champion to lead?

3. • Place your outcome in the center/top
• Use post-its with different colors to identify/
categorize the next users
• Place them accordingly based on their
linkages
• Identify key influencers, decision markers,
change managers, roadblocks, critical
stakeholders
• Identify the champions within the next users
and linkages
• Rearrange the next users closer to the
outcomes, who you think are the most
influential next users to achieving your
outcomes
Stakeholder Analysis
Exercise
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4. Additional references
Possible resources/tools listed
• Alignment Interest Influence Matrix (ODI, www.odi.org.uk/.../428-presentation-4-method-
alignment-interest-influence-matrix.ppt
• Stakeholder analysis (World Bank,
http://www1.worldbank.org/publicsector/anticorrupt/PoliticalEconomy/PDFVersion.pdf)
• Social network analysis (ODI-FAO,
http://www.foodsec.org/DL/course/shortcourseFK/en/pdf/trainerresources/PG_SNA.pdf)
• CIPPEC toolkit -Who should we work with? Define actors and alliances
http://www.vippal.cippec.org/media/publicaciones/biblioteca/guia05_ingles_cippec_planificacionde
laincidencia.pdf