04/28/23

Stakeholder Analysis

Rationale

Stakeholder – any individual or institution whose interests or stakes are affected by technical innovations or policies introduced, or may affect the utilization of the same innovations or implementation of a policy introduced in a community.

e.g. farmer, barangay council, extension worker, national agencies, cooperatives, bank, businessmen, NGO

Rationale

Different stakeholders have different objectives, which are at one time complementary & at another conflicting.

Central elements of Stakeholder Analysis are: Teamwork Focused collection of information Qualitative analysis Strategic decision-making Social organization of innovations

Procedure

1. Prepare for the Stakeholders workshop

Know what the stakeholders workshop is all about, what its purposes are, who are involved, why these people are involved, & what are the expected roles they hope to undertake during the workshop

2. Team building

Team building exercise is aimed at making the participants or actors coming from various walks work together, & together experience & realize the importance of communication & team work.

3. Define the problem being addressed by a proposed program or policy

What is the problem? Who declared the problem? Who thinks the problem is important? Why? What is the history of the problem? What are the causes of the problem? Who are affected by the problem? Are the problems urgent? Who holds the keys to solving the problem?

4. Identify relevant actors and their objectives

- Actors become relevant because others bring them in as relevant

5. Trace diversity in actors’ objectives.

- Different actors aim at different development objectives.

- Identify the convergences & divergences among relevant actors identified.

> What is the development objective of each actor? What is the rationale for such objective?

> What areas are their objectives similar? Different?

> What strategies do they employ in operationalizing their objectives?

6. Analyze the stakeholders' roles/functions, interests, strengths, weaknesses, area of cooperation and/or conflict

- Who are the actors more relevant to achieving successful implementation of the proposed program or policy? Why?

- Describe the actors’ relevant activities, convergence and resource coalitions?

- Who has contacts with whom (gaps & overlaps)? Why?

- What are the actors’ strengths & weakness with respect to stimulating performance?