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Stakeholder profiles

Stakeholder profiles according to the criteria:

Development vision

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every ENGO have visions and their work is to implement these in reality; expert character; other aspects coulnd’t be checked.

Flexibility and innovation

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creates new ideas and have to look at old ideas; mutual contact within different ENGOs, but have to be a bit extreme to be able to make compromises.

Relationships

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events with different stakeholder; but also confrontational protests to gain publicity (e.g. Greenpeace).

Communication

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a few NGOs informed very quickly about new political situations on their website.

No answers of my direct questions at all.

Transparency

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They need not care about the consequences of their doing as a private actor, but otherwise they get no support by the locals. At least, the locals are informed per internet or events; no negative reports of ENGOs intransparency.

Trust

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information is the base of ENGOs work. Often other stakeholders have only limited understanding for their aims (economy vs. ecology); other aspects couldn’t be checked

Operational effectiveness

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At the end ENGOs have a common aim, but there are different design ideas. Useful EIA enables new power, but are they informed? Sometimes only protest character.

Conflicts

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lack of staff make quick reactions difficult; as the only "lawyer for nature" the view has to be sometimes constricted on ecology.

Resources

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local NGOs (the majority) need money from community or government (one party wants to cut subsidies); international NGOs with a section in this area are relatively independent

selection of ENGOS:

Open questions:

  • There are a lot of missing links. Without knowledge of czech language, it’s almost impossible to judge about ENGOs influence in a certain region. You have to be in a dialogue with them and probably repeat all of the questions again. Although I spend a tremendous amount of time, I cannot guarantee for a good judgement in any case of this table.
  • Deeper studies are too old and deal with the transition after collapse of the SU, not with the problems now.
  • Which role play various centres or institutes for ENGOs ?
  • How are they influenced (science, activists, own experience)?
  • Do they work together beyond workshops etc.? In which way ?

Strategic Options:

1) influencing a stakeholder’s performance:

  • internal management: development of this energy area is a topic for everyone, not only locals; create multilanguage fact sheets to inform other people
  • collaborative relationships: networking, common projects with focusing on important issues to use different views in different eNGOs

2) relationship with other stakeholder: regular meetings with economy and politicians. Offer transparency on your side to gain trust

3) rules for negotiations: discussion about an “enemy image”, should eNGOs rather postulate their points as a passive actor or should they work with companies and have to accept compromises (compare Greenpeace and WWF)

4) new knowledge: german-czech communication; promotion of “Grünes Netzwerk Erzgebirge”, Zelená sít’ Krusné hory (http://www2.ioer.de/natura/uploads/media/Strategiekonzept_dt_final.pdf) or create workshops together (e.g. "Pestrý-Bunt. Freunde für biologische Vielfalt im Erzgebirge/ Krušné hory"; http://www.nachbarnkennen.eu/umwelt/item/naturschuetzer-vertiefen-kontakte (german)); interesting website: http://www.green-triangle.info

resources: I have detailed remarks at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Km2P_Cu0lErOb0h8KP?-Gba7-NFLtigMLMC1C-c5NI5k/edit?pli=1#

-> internet reports

I thought it would support readability to externalize these information. If it is useful to have all of this in our wiki, I can adapt it.

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