Stakeholder Engagement

Intensive Stakeholder Engagement is incorporated into most assignments we undertake.  Meaningful engagement is crucial in order to ensure that:

• Key stakeholders’ interests and concerns, particularly those who are most vulnerable, are understood and integrated into decision-making;
• Decisions are based on an accurate understanding of baseline conditions;
• Costly delays and disruptions of projects arising from stakeholder dissatisfaction are avoided.

SE need not be expensive or time-consuming.   Our Stakeholder Engagement & Social Assessment methodology utilizes a highly specialized rapid appraisal approach developed over many years to capture vital socio-economic conditions, issues, complexities and opportunities in a cost and time effective way.

We combine several investigative tools and methods, as appropriate, combining both qualitative and quantitative approaches to provide triangulation.  These include, among others:

• Secondary source materials analysis;
• Identification of “lessons learned” from other organizations/jurisdictions;
• Stakeholder mapping;
• Institutional (organizational) analysis;
• Key informant interviews across many sectors;
• Focus groups;
• Case studies;
• Workshops and seminars;
• Facilitation;
• Targeted quantitative surveys;
• Human resource capacity evaluations;
• Monitoring and evaluation.

Our Stakeholder Engagement and Social Assessment assignments have had direct, demonstrable positive impacts on the success of our clients’ programs and projects.