Stakeholder engagement methods

What is stakeholder engagement?

Stakeholder engagement focuses on involving different people – there are many different ways in which stakeholder engagement can occur, as shown in this section! The importance of stakeholder engagement in low-carbon transitions is becoming increasingly evident

How can Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) support stakeholder engagement?

It is highly beneficial to involve Social Science and Humanities experts in implementing engagement activities, as they can provide valuable insights in creating effective processes, analysing outcomes, and raising issues with decision-makers.

What does this section focus on?

This section provides examples of different stakeholder engagement methods, with this information supporting the use of these methods

Why do we need stakeholder engagement?

Transitions towards low-emission societies drastically change how we live our lives and require engagement of a broad base of people who are willing and able to advocate for change and make personal efforts to reduce emissions.

Citizen science

Citizens participate voluntarily in scientific processes as researchers or data collectors

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Co-creation

Public participation where there is a high-level of citizen involvement

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Serious games

Designed to teach citizens about complex, systemic topics such as climate change

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Storytelling

Storytelling is particularly suited to addressing complex and ‘wicked’ problems

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Transformation labs

Transformation Labs are long-term multi-actor processes focused on social-ecological change

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Deliberative forums

Contemplates lock-ins, actions, and strategies forward to a problem in a constructive manner.

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Transition management

Influence the direction and pace of societal change by enabling new ways of organising, doing, and thinking

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Citizen‘s assemblies

Deliberate on major policy questions and develop collective recommendations

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Multi-actor multi-criteria analysiss

Multi-actor multi-criteria analysis

A way of evaluating several project or policy options through taking stakeholder preferences explicitly into account

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Stakeholder-based impact scoring

Predicting the impact of a policy or project by quantifying and visualising the negative and positive impacts on stakeholders

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Participatory knowledge mapping

Participatory Knowledge Mapping approaches aimed at visualising the relationships and issues within an organisation or community

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Living labs

Involve conducting research activities in a real-life environment. They provide interaction spaces where participants collaborate on new technologies, services, products, or systems.

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Horizon scanning: Delphi exercises

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Stakeholder engagement methods