Stakeholder Analysis - Design and Dissemination - Lecture Notes, Study notes of Development Economics

Download Stakeholder Analysis - Design and Dissemination - Lecture Notes and more Study notes Development Economics in PDF only on Docsity! Stakeholder Analysis • Blank set of Stakeholder Analysis sheets, to be filled out by project teams. • Stakeholder Analysis example that’s been filled in for an afterschool program. (Source: Jennifer Rietbergen-McCracken and Deepa Narayan “Participation and Social Assessment: Tools and Techniques.” Washington DC: The World Bank, 1998. p. 91-93. The complete document is available for free online at http://www- wds.worldbank.org/) Summary of Stakeholder Analysis Process Realize that when a development project fails, it’s not necessarily due to the technology, but rather that all the people involved haven’t been brought together in the right way to create and support the project. Stakeholder analysis is a way to identify and understand the needs and interests of people affected by a project. The analysis goes through four steps to identify the stakeholders, understand their interests, influence and relationships, and devise a strategy for how to incorporate the stakeholder in the project’s design. Very often the people most affected aren’t given a voice in constructing a project. How often are students given a voice in planning their education? Docsity.com Sometimes stakeholders will be supporting your project. Other stakeholders may have reasons to block your project. You need to take all these into account. Step 1: Identify the key stakeholders. Who are the vulnerable groups? Step 2: Identify the interests and impacts of these stakeholders. Are they supporters, opponents, neutral? What are their relationships? Step 3: Assess their relative importance and impact on the project? Use a matrix that identifies both their importance and their influence. Those stakeholders with higher importance and influence will want to be involved more intensively and earlier in the process. Docsity.com