Triple L consists of national and international researchers, local authorities, development workers (NGO), farmer representatives and extensionists (field advisors), and the platform has organized stakeholder workshops, field visits, capacity development and initiated students' research projects.
User participation in watershed management raises new questions for watershed research, including how to design appropriate mechanisms for organizing stakeholders and facilitating collective action.
The article provides insights into how to structure and organize stakeholder participation and how to cope with the challenges of complexity, uncertainty, and ambiguity.
Furthermore, these results suggest that the analytical hierarchy process can serve as a useful mechanism for organizing stakeholder input for environmental planning and resource management.
The task of identifying and organizing stakeholder groups within categories thus proved to be a challenging conceptual exercise, and more than mere 'filling in the blanks' of a generic framework.
At the same time a national system needs to be organized including stakeholders from governmental, private, and non-governmental organizations, together with universities and scientific institutions, to assess the situation in Ecuador as a whole and to develop a new framework, for the future.
In April and May 2012, four focus groups, two per language group, were organized with stakeholders from the micro and meso levels of chronic care.
The hospitals organized a stakeholder committee which advised the hospital on strategic policy planning.
Other than for the purpose of investigating the concerns and objections of organized groups, stakeholder hearings should be avoided.
