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Figure 9 Identifying stakeholders, their roles and interests

Capacity
Do they have the necessary
Stakeholder roles capacity?
Stakeholders
What is their role?
Which stakeholder is What contributions can
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the make? Interest
Do they have an interest in
climate change, adaptation
and vulnerability?

Sources: UN HABITAT (2002) in IEA Module 2

members, policy-makers, researchers, experts, civil society, non-governmental organizations and media.
Local community members have valuable knowledge about consequences of climate change impacts
and many of the adaptation options are already familiar to communities, even if they are not explicitly

recognized as helping to reduce vulnerability to climate change. Building on the familiarity of these actions
increases the empowerment of local communities and decision-makers, as they can see themselves as
valuable sources of knowledge for developing responses to climate change.

In order to assure that the different stakeholders are represented, a stakeholder analysis is very

helpful.

The analysis identifies and examines key stakeholders, fulfilling criteria such as representation across
sectors, gender and available capacities. The analysis alone does not guarantee, however, that the
identified stakeholders are going to be active in the process—this may require incentives and strong
leadership.

Stakeholder analysis includes three elements (IEA, Module 2):

1. Key issues or problems that will be discussed throughout this module. Identify stakeholders relevant
to the vulnerability, climate change impacts and adaptation issues.
2. Stakeholder long list. Prepare a detailed list of stakeholders, structured by general categories (such
as public sector and private sector) as well as sub-categories (see Table 1). The list should include
stakeholders that meet any of the following criteria:

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