New FutureLakes report on stakeholders' involvement and powers
New insights on lake stakeholders offers power/interest matrices, overview of lake governance and mechanisms for stakeholder involvement.
FutureLakes' Work Package 2 “Public mobilisation, engagement, and lake governance” is happy to inform that the first scientific deliverable in FutureLakes has been submitted!
Entitled “Stakeholder Mapping: Analysis of Stakeholder Involvement in Lake Restoration in Six European Countries”, it brings a comprehensive analysis of the six FutureLakes Demo lake basins from a stakeholder engagement and participation perspective.
This report is important for the project members, as many further tasks and activities can use it for identifying their stakeholders and audiences. It can also serve as a baseline document, especially for the Greek, Polish, and Norwegian cases that will test the Enhanced Platforms for Dialogue with the Critical Friends groups.
We also hope that the report will receive wider attention of researchers and lake practitioners and policymakers and provide them with theoretical and methodological toolkits for stakeholder mapping and analysis.
Learning and inspiration
This deliverable is very timely for the EU Nature Restoration Regulation (NRR) by presenting learning and inspiration to support good practices in implementing the NRR and achieving greater societal involvement in this policy process.
Other good reasons to read the deliverable is learning across the Demo lake basins. Our six case studies demonstrate significant diversity in lake governance institutions and mechanisms for stakeholder involvement.
Each case has a historical narrative from a stakeholder engagement perspective and is evaluated against the OECD’s framework, categorizing various levels of engagement. Each case has a stakeholder identification table. Altogether, we have identified 220 stakeholders (between 20 and 60 in each case)! The report also provide a Power/Interest matrix for each case study, organizing stakeholders along their influence and focus on the lake restoration process. Finally, there are some interesting conclusions and observations across the cases.