3.4.1. Stakeholder Mapping

3.4.1. Stakeholder Mapping

For the stakeholder mapping, the group selected the Area-Stakeholders-Problem approach (Bryson, 2004) where we went through the area and relevant documents available. Thus, we were able to identify the major stakeholders involved and got input from them by conducting interviews and other participatory methods. We used the input we received to formulate a set of improvements for the issues brought to our awareness to build further on our strategic interventions.

We used the Power-Interest diagram (Bryson, 2004) to recognize the stakeholders we need to get in contact with to know more about the area, and the community challenges and opportunities to improve. Trondheim Kommune was viewed as the most powerful stakeholder as most ownership and final decision-making lies with them, while the Svartlamo(e)n residents’ association was identified as a stakeholder with the most interest as it includes people living in Svartlamo(e)n and the changes in the area directly affect them.

Based on our initial findings, we were able to build and revise our initial stakeholder map and formulate it into a Stakeholder Influence diagram (Bryson, 2004), which helped us in understanding the possible influence they have amongst each other which could impact decision making.

Using the stakeholder maps and the subsequent data we collected by interviewing stakeholders and understanding their influence in decision making we were able to list some issues that could be improved. We used the stakeholder Issue-Interrelationship map (Bryson, 2004) to analyze our findings and look at possible conflicts when working with our ideas towards building a proposal.