Stakeholder analysis

This is important if we are to take into consideration and somehow respond o those actors who may feel jeopardise by and resist change. It is also important to distinguish primary stakeholders, those who benefit from an intervention or programmer. Stakeholder analysis is used to understand who the key actors are more or less a given up issue and to gauge the importance of different groups interests and potential influence. It also serves to highlight groups who are most affected by a given issue and least able to influence the situation.How to use this framework Stakeholder analysis should be focused on a single issue, e. G. Girls education or recruitment of child soldiers. It can serve as an analytical framework for processing data or as a data collection exercise to be done in the field based on review of existing information (documentary review) in group meetings through key informant interviews (centrally or in the field). It can serve in an assessment exercise, in a programm er monitoring exercise (e. G. To further probe positions/ interests as the programmer advances) and in an military rank (e. . How have interests changed, supporting or impeding programmer progress). What it can tell us Identify different groups that can be sources of information Interpret perspectives provided by each group Identify who could positively or negatively influence programmer responses To support realistic programmer planning and management, data collectors must mind carefully within the group of primary stakeholders, recognizing that this group is not uniform, but include sub-groups with different characteristics (e. G. Omen, children, leaders) and at the wider group of actors that readiness positively or negatively influence a situation. A do no harm perspective (see content sheet Do no harm) must foresee which non- remarry stakeholder groups might seek to benefit from a programmer at the expense of primary stakeholders Direct capacity-building efforts A capacity-bu ilding approach to the projects should seek to increase primary stakeholders influence all over the achievement of a stopping point (I. E. Move primary stakeholders towards sector 1 in the Venn diagram on the next page).Representing stakeholders as a Venn diagram cardinal circles distinguish stakeholders Primary stakeholders (those who will benefit from an intervention) are represented inside the dotted oval The wider context of stakeholders is presented by the larger oval. Two axes (influence/be influenced and cajole/lose) divide the diagram into four areas domain 1 Those who can influence the situation and benefit from it examples Outsiders local and international Nags, political factions Primary stakeholders influential actors (e. . Leaders). Sector 2 Those who are influenced by the changes and will benefit from it examples Primary stakeholders Non-primary stakeholders who will nonetheless gain from the projects outcomes. Sector 3 Those who cannot influence the achievement o f a goal and will be effected negatively by it examples Primary stakeholders and outsiders whose status or relative wealth are changed by an activity.