Stakeholder analysis: steps
Conducting a Stakeholders Analysis essentially means:
1. Identifying all the relevant groups involved in (directly
involved or indirectly affected by) a given situation
2. Analysing their perspectives (i.e. interests, needs, positions,
resources)
3. Analysing their relationships (with one another, and with
other entities), including evolving dynamics
4. Determining how to engage with such stakeholders and
identify possible opportunities to act.
Stakeholder analysis: Tools
1. Stakeholder inventory: Mapping out international, national and
local actors, i.e. list all relevant actors who can significantly
influence or are affected by conflict.
1. Stakeholder profile: analyzing, for each of the stakeholders :
– Characteristics: typology or nature of the actor/organization
– Interests/needs what interests or needs do they have in relation to the
conflict and how do these interests influence the conflict?
– Positions: what are the relationships among the various actors? What
their positions in the conflict context
– Capacities: what resources do they have to influence conflict either
positively or negatively?
3. Stakeholder Mapping: understanding relationships and dynamics
Example of Stakeholder profile
CPN (Maoist) in mid-2000s (Nepal )
Characteristics
Interests/Needs
• SIZE: About 30.000 militias
INTERESTS: Mainly political
and 100.000 direct
supporters.
• Control of state power
• Socialist revolution
• LOCATION: Rolpa and
through violent regime
other Western districts in
change
the hilly regions.
• ALLIES: Linkages with
Indian Maoist groups
• SCOPE: National
• MEMBERSHIP: Mixed
(voluntary enrolment and
targeted abductions)
NEEDS:
• security - control of the
army
• Political legitimacy and
acceptance by
traditional parties
• Constituent assembly
Positions
Capacities
• MILITARY: Weapon
OFFICIAL POSITIONS
supply by Indian
• Replacement of
Maoists
current political elite
• Removal of Monarchy
• ECONOMIC: resources
• Establishment of
from informal tax
socialist state
revenues in areas under
• Protection of ethnic
control
minorities
INFORMAL POSITIONS: • SOCIO-POLITICAL:
Capacity to influence
• Tactical alliance
political debate in the
possible with either
capital and capacity to
the Monarchy or
disrupt ordinary life
traditional political
through general strikes
parties
(Bandha)
• Acceptance of
democratic republic if
• MEDIA: Extensive use of
transition process is
web and informal media
guaranteed and
to support their action
accepted by India
and for proselytism.
Stakeholder analysis: tools (cont.)
3. Stakeholder mapping: a visual mapping is useful to
understand the relations between different actors
(for example those who are allied or opposed, those
who have shared interests).
Stakeholder analysis exercise
1. Look at the conflict analysis your group developed/your country
context
2. List all relevant actors to the situation
3. From the list above, identify 8-10 key relevant stakeholders,
including 2-3 relevant for the education sector.
4. Conduct a quick profile of each key stakeholder.
5. Produce a visual map of these stakeholders.