Worksheet: Date May 18th – May 24th 2015

Practitioner’s Guide: Basics of stakeholder analysis

Team-Assignment Week 3

1. List below your major stakeholders identified with relation to your land

Stakeholder Name / Type of Stakeholder 1 / Description 2 / Relationship to the land 3
Committee on Environmental Protection under the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan / National Government / It deals with policy issues at national level, collects reports and statistical data on regular basis from its branch offices at provincial, regional and district levels. Coordinates with other relevant State Committees and ministries in an effort to mainstream environmental protection principles and sustainable use of natural resources. / Developing draft national laws and regulations on natural resources management (principles/rights/responsibilities) and environmental protection (including land use) to be revised and adopted by Parliament. Organizing national/international conferences and events on a/m issues. Steering implementation of international donor-funded relevant projects. Promotion of sustainable use of natural resources, including land.
Ecological department of Muminabad district administration / Local authorities at district level / The ecological department is under the supervision of the Committee on Environmental Protection under the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan. The ecological department controls proper use of natural resources including land, water and air. It is concerned with overuse and improper use natural resources and is empovered to take cases to court for fines and charges. It also issues permissions for use of these natural resources. In case of air the vehicle drivers have to pay on quarterly basis (through issued permissions) for air pollution. Also concerned with land erosion, degradation, deforestation and loss of land resources. / Enforcement of land use related laws and regulations at local level. Issuing permissions/certificates on land use related activities (reforestation, use of land for constructions, factories). Has more responsibilities related to natural resources management (including land) and environmental protection at local level.
Land use committee of Muminabad district administration / Local authorities at district level / Primarily is responsible for zoning and determining land use types. It develops land use plans at district and sub-district levels and has key role in allocation of lands for various uses. It issues land use certificates for private individual owners and association of farmers. The land reform process is still underway in Tajikistan and therefore, potential changes are subject to adoption. / Develops land use plans for various uses at district, sub-district and community levels, facilitates allocation of land, issues land use certificates. Responsible for more tasks related to land use.
Forestry department of Muminabad district administration / Local authorities at district level / It is in charge of controling use of forest resources in wooded areas of Muminabad district. Its primary concerns are reforestation challenges, controlling fruit trees harvesting and wood producing from all the trees. In order to remove a single tree it gets permission from the local ecological department. / Protects wooded lands and their resources. Promotes and facilitates reforestation, but also aims at increased production of timber, limited varieties of fruits (nuts, almonds, etc) and surplus wood (seasonal accessive branches or parts of trees).
Orchard users / Private, individual farmers / Income generation-oriented Individual farmers / Produce fruits, surplus wood, improve land productivity through various means. Pay land use and fruit production taxes.
Users of cultivated lands (irrigated & non irrigated) / Private, individual farmers / Agricultural goods producers interested in productivity of land, increased production outputs and decreased production costs / Improve land productivity to increase agricultural production at limited area of land. Pay land use production taxes.
Users of pasture land (non-irrigated) / Private, farmers or individuals / Livestock farmers or indvidual livestock owners interested in land productivity and increased fodder output / Manage use of pasture land and fodder production at limited are of land.
Users of wood / Private (individuals) / Individuals concerned with availability of wood for various purposes i.e. timber for household level construction, wood for heating and cooking at households during winter period when electricity supply is limited / Less concerned with land use, but interested in increased production of and processing wood for various uses at household level.
Livestock Committees / Community level committee of livestock owners / Community representatives concerned with availability of adequate amount of grass and drinking water for communal herds at public pasture lands / Promotes rotation grazing of pasture lands belonging to certain community. In charge of decision-making at community level on use of pasture lands
Association of Livestock Committees / Civil society organization / Umbrella organization of livestock owners in charge of protecting the rights and interests of the member livestock committees at district level / Directly does not deal with land use, but represents individual and group/s of pasture land users and livestock owners at district and sub-district levels.

1 e.g. Government, Private, and civil society

2 e.g. Land user groups, concerned with land or economically profitable exploitation, and/or conservation and/or preservation.

3 Level /Role/Policy context

2. Selection of method you used to categorize your identified stakeholders:

·  Interest-influence matrices

·  Radical trans-activeness

·  Stakeholder-led stakeholder categorization

·  Q methodology

Explain why you choose the selected method?

We selected the interest-influence matrices method to categorize our identified stakeholders. One of the primary reasons we chose this method is level of influence the stakeholders can have. The other important feature is that this method also defines the level of interest. The interaction between or among the stakeholders can also be illustrated through this method. In our case the Committee on Environmental Protection under the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan, which primarily deals with policy making issues at national level, does not directly interact with individual land users at field. Whereas the ecological department of Muminabad district directly controls the use of land resources by individual users and companies. The other advantage of this stakeholder mapping method is that eases the stakeholders’ analysis by showing a clear picture of their level of influence, interest and interaction, thus is greatly contribute in developing a Stakeholder Engagement Plan with clear division of rights, responsibilities and mandates.

3. Name the method you intend to use to map your stakeholders?

·  interest-influence matrix

·  Venn Diagrams

·  “4Rs” tool

·  Others (…..)

We have used the interest-influence matrix method to map the stakeholders we have defined.

4. Name the tool you choose to investigate the relationships among your identified stakeholders?

·  Actor-linkage matrices

·  Social Network Analysis

·  Knowledge Mapping

We have chosen the actor-linkage matrices tool to investigate the interaction among/between the stakeholders we have determined.

Explain why you choose the selected tool?

We have chosen the actor-linkage matrices tool for its simplicity, flexibility and use of table to defining the interrelation of the stakeholders that we have determined. Characterization of the interrelations by simple, but still important, terms was another reason we have chosen this tool. The other advantage of this tool is that it can be utilized in an open field using flipcharts (or whiteboard) and markers with direct involvement of individual stakeholders such as farmers, land owners and representatives of concerned local state agencies (district/sub-district administration departments).

5. Explain how you plan to prioritize the identified stakeholders in relation to their engagement, role, importance and influence over your land work?

(Map out the possible stakeholders (likely to have great impact on the project) and to detect the main relevant ecosystem services via assessing their stakeholders’ interest with justification for inclusion of stakeholder and the expected role of the stakeholder in the MOOC work. The output could be formed in a matrix of ecosystem services, beneficiary groups, and stakeholders involved and their interests)

# / Stakeholders / beneficiary groups / Ecosystem services
Supporting / Provisioning / Regulating / Cultural
1 / Users of cultivated lands (irrigated & non-irrigated) / X / X
2 / Orchard users / X / X / X
3 / Users of pasture land (non-irrigated) / X / X
4 / Livestock Committees / X / X
5 / Forestry department of Muminabad district administration / X / X / X
6 / Users of wood / X
7 / Land use committee of Muminabad district administration / X / X
8 / Association of Livestock Committees / X / X
9 / Ecological department of Muminabad district administration / X / X
10 / Committee on Environmental Protection under the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan / X / X

This table shows the role and relationship of the identified stakeholders with ecosystem services that the land resources in the two target watersheds provide. The priority rate is focused on direct benefits of the stakeholders from the ecosystem services, especially tangible and material benefits. The direct relationship of the stakeholders with the ecosystem services of the land is also prioritized. Since the levels of influence and importance of the stakeholders are defined in the sections above, this table does not provide details on these aspects.

Along with the analysis outputs of the above, this table will be used in the further works of the MOOC. For this it will be further elaborated and utilized in development of the Stakeholder Engagement Plan.

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