Analysis of stakeholders’ implementation of the National Strategy for sustainable utilisation and conservation of animal genetic resources in Poland. The study, based on the customised questionnaire, was aimed at evaluating the contribution of relevant stakeholder groups in the implementation of Strategic Priorities and specific tasks identified in the Action Plan to the National Strategy. The analysis shows that breeders associations and other organizations entrusted with herd book keeping, as well as agricultural universities, are significantly contributing to the implementation of the National Strategy. In addition, significant involvement in implementation was reported by regional authorities (Marshal’s Offices in voivodships) and extension services. Public administration and governmental agencies proved to be heavily engaged in implementation and enforcement of specific areas of the Action Plan.
This paper examines the shoreline management planning policy in England and its suitability for ameliorating the diverse environmental problems associated with Nigeria‟s coastal zones. It examines the success of SMPs in England since the mid-1990s and progress achieved, with the aim of understudying the current management approach that can be transferred to Nigeria to strengthen its adoption, and as a necessary corollary, implementation of the SMPs. This paper also examines key elements of the shoreline management frameworks in England and provides answers to the question: Would shoreline management planning approach in England be appropriate and feasible in Nigeria? It further concludes that many of the action plans and principles of participation should be adoptable provided that a participatory approach that involves all stakeholders including community members and relevant sectoral ministries as well as appropriate legal framework is encouraged.
As a result of an increasing cases of community protest and opposition to construction projects in the Niger Delta during the construction stages, the present study investigated factors influencing construction stakeholders‟ engagement outcome. The aim was to determine the severity of factors influencing construction stakeholders‟ engagement in the research environment. Due to the pluralist usage of the term stakeholder, the study examined community stakeholders. Qualitative and quantitative data were collected using semi-structured interview and questionnaire survey administered on 186 respondents selected from two stakeholders groups using snowballing. 32 factors generated individually and collectively from literature, interview and practice were ranked and analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Gap between regulatory requirements and public expectations, location of projects, effect of cumulative development effects, poverty, and lack of information disclosure are some of the high ranking factors influencing engagement performance. Further analysis involving Levene‟s Homogeneity test indicates no significant difference in the population ranking opinion of these factors. This heterogeneous distribution demonstrates strong similarity across the population studied. These factors must therefore be smoothened in future construction engagement process to enhance successful project delivery. The study unveils inherent lacunas in construction project management which strongly correlates project performance.
The participation of stakeholders is an important component in integrated and adaptive watershed planning and management. In Quebec, Canada watershed organizations are in the process of implementing participatory based watershed planning and management schemes. However, there is a lack of simple and readily implementable frameworks and methods to explicitly involve stakeholders, as well as integrate physical and social processes, in watershed planning and management in Quebec. This paper describes the application of the first three stages of a newly proposed five stage stepwise Participatory Model Building framework that was developed to help facilitate the participatory investigation of problems in watershed planning and management through the use of qualitative system dynamics models. In the agriculturally intensive Du Chene watershed in Québec, eight individual stakeholder interviews were conducted in cooperation with the local watershed organization to develop qualitative system dynamics models that represent the main physical and social processes in the Du Chene watershed. The proposed Participatory Model Building framework was found to be accessible for all the interviewees, and was deemed to be very useful by the watershed organization to develop an overview of the different perspectives of the main stakeholders in the watershed, as well as to help develop watershed policies and strategies. The individual qualitative system dynamics models developed in this study can subsequently be converted into an overall group built system dynamics model (describing the socio-economic-political components of the watershed), which in turn can be quantified and coupled with a physically based model such as HEC-HMS or SWAT (describing the physical components of the watershed).
Procedura realizacji inwestycji kolejowych w Polsce jest czasochłonna, bardzo złożona i obarczona wieloma czynnikami ryzyka. Konieczne jest zatem poprawienie poziomu zarządzania ryzykiem na planowanych inwestycjach kolejowych. Celem szerszego rozpoznania czynników ryzyka autorzy w artykule przedstawiają propozycję własnej metody analizy interesariuszy i identyfikacji ryzyka z nimi związanego. W artykule przedstawiono również przykład analizy siły wpływu poszczególnych grup interesariuszy na badaną inwestycję, w tym na bazowy harmonogram prac. Analiza interesariuszy przedstawiona w artykule wskazuje na ich znaczący wpływ na inwestycje kolejowe oraz konieczność uwzględnienia ich oczekiwań podczas planowania nowych przedsięwzięć.