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Other examples

Further examples and reading on approaches to stakeholder identification include:

The Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) Toolbox of the Global Water Partnership (GWP) features a number of related case studies under the headings:

B1.09 Civil society institutions and community based Organizations
B1.11 Building Partnerships
B2.1 Participatory capacity and empowerment in civil society
C4.2 Communication with stakeholders
C5.3 Consensus building

Public consultation played a major part in the development of the long term Columbia Basin Management Plan and public acceptance of projects for upgrading existing hydropower, developing new capacity and modifying management practices.

Participation of stakeholders played an important part in a wetland conservation program in Senegal supported by IUCN as part of their Water and Nature Initiative. 'The process of adaptive management that combines research, partnerships and negotiations between stakeholders is necessarily complex. The realization that such a project requires a long-term engagement of everyone is therefore paramount".

The Cordillera Highlands Agricultural Resources Management Project was designed to help 82 local communities to develop their own action plans involving participatory community analysis and priority setting. Multi-stakeholder review and ranking of projects at municipal and provincial levels followed to identify which projects would be funded. Further details of the village, municipal and provincial levels of the process are available in Malvicini, C. F. and Sweetser, A. T., 2003. Modes of Participation Experiences from RETA 5894: Capacity Building and Participation Activities II, ADB, (19-21).

In the urban environment, guidance on involving stakeholders has been prepared for UN-Habitat by McCallum, D., 2000. Draft Tool for Stakeholder Identification and Mobilisation. UN-Habitat.

The Ribble basin was chosen as a pilot study for the UK to test public participation in river basin planning as required by the EU Water Framework Directive. This report is the result of the testing that has been running now for 14 months. The Executive Summary can be downloaded here.

Building the institutional capacity of stakeholders through river basin organizations provides a forum for discussion of various development options at a strategic level of planning early in the process. For example, the stakeholder committee established in the Ping River Basin in NE Thailand provides a forum for engagement that is often lacking.

Participation in the resettlement plan for the Nam Theun 2 project in Lao PDR involved a pilot demonstration village and a large number of meetings and workshops. Extensive feedback was provided on the design of mitigation measures.

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