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Tools: Stakeholder Analysis Tool (SAS)

Stakeholder analysis means many things to different people. It can be a useful way to understand who is affected by, and who has the power to influence, water management decisions, i.e. the stakeholders

There are a number of reasons to perform stakeholder analysis:

  1. To understand who’s in and why (descriptive approach)
  2. To influence and manage stakeholder relationships (instrumental approach)
  3. To legitimise stakeholder involvement and empowerment in decision-making processes, and to ensure representation of under-represented or marginalised groups (normative approach)

Perhaps the most important reason to perform stakeholder analysis is to facilitate the processes of social, economic and environmental change and adaptation necessary to achieve sustainability.

Stakeholder analysis using the I3s tool involves the steps shown in Figure 1, below.

The context for the stakeholder analysis needs to be identified beforehand, through discussion or meetings possibly supported by cognitive mapping (C-map tools) or simulation (Splash) tools. The stakeholder analysis support (SAS) tool is then applied to:

  1. Identify stakeholder and their stake
  2. Differentiate between and categorise stakeholders
  3. Investigate relationships between stakeholders

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