Stakeholder Analysis Assoc. Prof. Dr. Wongsa Laohasiriwong Khon Kaen University

Stakeholders Stakeholders are persons, groups or institutions with interests in a policy, program or project.

Stakeholders Primary stakeholders are immediate communities of interest.

Secondary stakeholders Secondary stakeholders are the intermediaries in the process, and may include government agencies and other institutional bodies (click here for more on these institutional groups and the role they can play). These groups seldom think of themselves as stakeholders, because they feel they "own" the process. Similarly research groups sometimes do not regard themselves as stakeholders because they feel they are providing "objective information" or "facts" into the situation.

Stakeholder analysis Stakeholder analysis is the identification of a project's key stakeholders, an assessment of their interests, and the ways in which those interests affect project riskiness and viability.

Stakeholder analysis It contributes to project design by identifying the goals and roles of different groups, and by helping to formulate appropriate forms of engagement with these groups.

Stakeholder Analysis In a stakeholder analysis we look at "the stakeholder", "the relationship". Different types of relationship need different kinds of processes; some need more input to maintain. Stakeholders similarly can be quite specific, such as individuals or geographically identifiable groups of people. Others are more 'amorphous' and we have to think more laterally about how we are going to establish and maintain a relationship with them.

7 Steps in Stakeholder analysis Step 1: Confirm the initial development problems, possible target area and/or sector, and the beneficiaries.

7 Steps in Stakeholder analysis Step 2: Prepare a blank stakeholder table.

7 Steps in Stakeholder analysis Step 3: List all the stakeholders on cards and sort them by categories of stakeholders, e.g., population groups, Public sector organizations (including local government agencies), Civil society, private sector, donor agencies. Place each group on a separate row (column 1).

7 Steps in Stakeholder analysis

Step 4: Discuss the interests of each group with reference to the development problem— how and why they are involved. Complete one card for each group reflecting their dominant interest (column 2).

7 Steps in Stakeholder analysis Step 5: Clarify how each group perceives the development problem (column 3). Use one card per group and state the perceived problem as clearly as possible. The phrase should be a negative statement and not an implication of a solution, e.g., roads are poorly maintained (correct), no road maintenance system (incorrect).

7 Steps in Stakeholder analysis Step 6: State the resources a group puts forth in support or in opposition to the development problem. Resources are financial and nonfinancial. While formal organizations have both financial and nonfinancial resources, population and civil society groups have predominantly nonfinancial resources. These can include labor, political influence, volunteers, votes, strikes, and public pressure (column 4).

7 Steps in Stakeholder analysis Step 7: List the mandates or formal authority that stakeholder shave to carry out a particular function. Generally, population groups, such as low- income groups, farmers, and women, do not have mandates (column 5).

7 Steps in Stakeholder analysis

Name of the Group Stakeholder’s Interest Perception of Problems ResourcesImportantInfluenceMandate Stakeholder analysis table