To achieve an effective community stakeholder engagement strategy take a systematic approach. This exercise combines all the available tools to help you put all the theory into practice. Tools such as tables and online tables for mapping (alternative) are offered. Note to users: this exercise has been designed to be implemented with a facilitator. Note to users: this exercise has been designed to be implemented with a facilitator.
Please use the table found in the pdf file named Create a Stakeholder Record table (Table 1) attached.
Important Note: Please make sure you update your stakeholder records at least once a year.
This is an interactive tool for trainers to suggest to participants and/ or use during pilot training. Participants can use it to start the mapping of stakeholders related to their organization and the community they are working in.
* These exercises can be used in combination or separately as the trainers see fit. It is recommended that training participants first go through part 2: Involvement of external stakeholders.
https://miro.com/templates/stakeholder-map/ Other tools to make stakeholder understanding and mapping more interactive
https://www.ibm.com/design/thinking/page/toolkit/activity/stakeholder-map
Please use the table found in the pdf file named Stakeholders Engagement and Understanding Questionnaire (Table 2) attached to complete this step.
Step 3: Choose your engagement steps and techniques
To complete this step, please use the table found in the pdf file named Engagement Techniques (Table 3) attached.
Step 4: Final External Stakeholder Card (optional)
Please use the table found in the pdf file named Engagement strategy steps and techniques (Table 4) attached.
Trainees can fill in this card if they wish after or while they are making all their decisions regarding ways to engage their stakeholders and chosen strategy
The purposes of these exercises are to help trainees think about their stakeholders (the actors they collaborate with in their communities) and start thinking about building partnerships with them.
Before you start doing the activity it would be a good idea to have them brainstorm about projects and partnerships they would like to start or any real-life experiences of partnerships they have tried to build and it did not work out. In that way, they can think of real work scenarios and apply their experiences to the theoretical background offered here.