National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools

Some questions...

1) Does your Public Health Unit/Agency use a particular stakeholder mapping approach/tool/exercise?

2) How does your Public Health Unit/Agency assess whether partnering with X organization is worthwhile or not?

3) How do you Public Health Unit/Agency determine "partnership gaps?"

The Ontario Public Health Organizational Standards (Standard 5) have Ontario Health Units revisiting how/and who we partner with...

Hi Ross,

Great questions! I can promote this new thread in our next DialoguePH weekly message so that other network members can log-in and respond.

Ross, I want to direct you to a discussion thread from last Spring that discussed tools that can be used for stakeholder mapping. The thread is available here: http://www.nccmt.ca/forum/en/topic/140/tool-for-assessing-stakeholder-perspectives/1.html

Thanks,

Kirsten

Thanks Kirsten - the RNAO tool was helpful!

Any suggestions on tools for stakeholder mapping outside one's organization/agency? I've seen this called:

- sector mapping
- Force field analysis
- market share

Thanks,

Ross

Hi Ross,

I wanted to share another resource in the Registry that might be helpful. The International Development Research Centre (IRDC) developed a knowledge translation guide, The Research Matters KT Toolkit: A Resource for Researchersl, which contains a section on Context Mapping (Section II: The Audience: The Context and the Contacts). Context mapping looks at the environment in which we work to better understand the people, influences and other forces (political, social, cultural, etc.) that have a bearing on how we work and what we are able to achieve within that context.

This section provides an overview of stakeholder analysis, force field analysis, and influence mapping (p. 55 – 62). I believe these mapping techniques look at both an organization’s internal and external environments. Within this section, there is also a listing of additional resources to check out (p. 57 – 58).

I did a quick check on some of these resources, and I thought these two were particularly helpful:

Hovland, H. (2005). Successful Communication: A Toolkit for Researchers and Civil Society Organizations. Available from: http://www.odi.org.uk/Rapid/Tools/Toolkits/Communication/Index.html

Schmeer, K. (1999). Guidelines for Conducting a Stakeholder Analysis. Bethesda, MD: Partnerships for Health Reform, Abt Associates Inc.

To see a summary statement on this resource, click here.

Hope that helps!
Sunita

Very helpful - thanks Sunita!