Stakeholder Analysis

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Identification and evaluation of individuals or groups who can affect or are affected by a policy or program.

Stakeholder Definition and Identification: Understanding who the stakeholders are, what their roles and interests are.
Stakeholder Mapping: The process of creating a visual representation of stakeholders, their interests, and their level of influence.
Stakeholder Analysis Frameworks: Various frameworks and models for analyzing stakeholders such as the Power Interest Matrix, Salience Model, and Influence-Interest Matrix.
Stakeholder Engagement and Communication Strategies: Establishing communication channels with stakeholders and developing strategies on how to effectively engage stakeholders.
Stakeholder Prioritization: Determining which stakeholders are critical to the success of the policy implementation and prioritizing accordingly.
Stakeholder Management: Process of developing strategies and techniques to satisfy the needs of different stakeholders while ensuring that the policy implementation goals are met.
Impact Analysis: Assessing the potential impact of the policy implementation on stakeholders, and developing strategies to mitigate the negative effects.
Stakeholder Evaluation: Assessing stakeholder engagement and analyzing the effectiveness of strategies implemented in engaging stakeholders.
Stakeholder Influence and Power: Understanding how stakeholders can influence policy implementation, and developing strategies to minimize negative impacts.
Stakeholder Monitoring: Regularly monitoring stakeholder engagement and identifying potential changes in interests or priorities.
Conflict Resolution: Developing strategies for resolving conflicts among stakeholders during the policy implementation process.
Ethics and Responsibility: Analyzing ethical and social considerations that may arise when engaging stakeholders in the policy implementation process.
Stakeholder Capacity Building: Developing programs to build the capacity of stakeholders to participate effectively in policy implementation.
Stakeholder Alignment: Process of aligning various stakeholders in achieving policy implementation goals.
Resource and Budget Management: Establishing and managing resources and budget needed to engage stakeholders in policy implementation.
Political Environment Analysis: Analyzing the political environment and establishing strategies to manage the influence of political actors on stakeholder engagement.
Monitoring and Evaluation: Developing an effective monitoring and evaluation plan to measure the effectiveness of stakeholder engagement strategies.
Contextual Analysis: Understanding the context of policy implementation, which may affect stakeholder engagement.
Collaborative Partnership Building: Building collaborative partnership with stakeholders to achieve policy implementation goals.
Risk Analysis: Identifying potential risks in stakeholder engagement and developing strategies to mitigate them.
Power/interest matrix: This analysis assesses stakeholders based on their level of power and level of interest in the policy issue. Stakeholders are categorized into four groups: high power/high interest, high power/low interest, low power/high interest, and low power/low interest.
Salience model: This analysis explores stakeholder groups based on three dimensions: power, legitimacy, and urgency. Stakeholders are then prioritized according to how salient they are in relation to the policy issue.
Influence/impact grid: This analysis maps stakeholders according to their level of influence over the policy issue and the impact the policy will have on them. Stakeholders are clustered into four groups: influencers, stakeholders impacted significantly, important stakeholders, and stakeholders with low influence or impact.
Participatory mapping: This analysis is a collaborative approach with stakeholders to identify their interests, priorities, and values. This technique enables stakeholders to be actively involved in the policy decision-making process.
Network mapping: This analysis assesses stakeholders' relationships among them and assesses who are key influencers, decision-makers, or brokers.
Descriptive stakeholder analysis: This analysis aims to identify stakeholders based on their characteristics, including their demographics, organizational affiliation, and economic interests.
Attitudinal stakeholder analysis: This analysis is conducted using surveys, focus groups, or interviews with stakeholders to understand their attitudes, values, and perceptions related to a policy issue.
Multi-level stakeholder analysis: This analysis is designed to assess stakeholders at different levels, ranging from individual actors to national and global institutions. This technique enables policymakers to identify the interaction between the different groups involved in the policy issue.
"The process of assessing a system and potential changes to it as they relate to relevant and interested parties known as stakeholders."
"Conflict resolution, business administration, environmental health sciences decision making, industrial ecology, public administration, and project management."
"To assess how the interests of those stakeholders should be addressed in a project plan, policy, program, or other action."
"Stakeholder analysis is a key part of stakeholder management."
"This information is used to assess how the interests of those stakeholders should be addressed in a project plan, policy, program, or other action."
"A stakeholder analysis of an issue consists of weighing and balancing all of the competing demands on a firm by each of those who have a claim on it, in order to arrive at the firm's obligation in a particular case."
"A stakeholder analysis does not preclude the interests of the stakeholders overriding the interests of the other stakeholders affected."
"It ensures that all affected will be considered."
"Stakeholder analysis is frequently used during the preparation phase of a project."
"Stakeholder analysis can be done once or on a regular basis to track changes in stakeholder attitudes over time."
"The process of assessing a system and potential changes to it as they relate to relevant and interested parties known as stakeholders."
"Conflict resolution, business administration, environmental health sciences decision making, industrial ecology, public administration, and project management."
"How the interests of those stakeholders should be addressed in a project plan, policy, program, or other action."
"A key part of stakeholder management."
"Weighing and balancing all of the competing demands on a firm by each of those who have a claim on it, in order to arrive at the firm's obligation in a particular case."
"A stakeholder analysis does not preclude the interests of the stakeholders overriding the interests of the other stakeholders affected."
"It ensures that all affected will be considered."
"During the preparation phase of a project."
"Tracking changes in stakeholder attitudes over time."
"Once or on a regular basis to track changes in stakeholder attitudes over time."