500 words case stady - Essay Example

(Worldbank, 2009) Governance concentrates on adaptive management, stakeholder participation, and efforts to influence human behavior in support of ecosystem sustainability. This influencing of behavior is achieved through three key mechanisms-legal-political pressure, market pressure, and social pressure. (Stephen B et al 2006, p 6). Good governance has 8 major characteristics. It is participatory, consensus oriented, accountable, transparent, responsive, effective and efficient, equitable and inclusive and follows the rule of law.

(UNESCAP 2009) The purpose of stakeholder analysis is to understand who are the persons on whom the proposed GEF proposal will have an impact on, to what extent and how, whether they will be positively impacted or negatively. Doing this early at the planning stage will help in anticipating potential problems and opposition that may be faced when implementation and planning for mitigation early on. As a requirement of good governance, this will also help indentifying groups/institutions with whom to engage with in all stages of the project.

It will also help in understanding the level to which each group can influence the success of the programme, what is their capacity to participate and what needs to be done to improve their capacity for doing this. Stakeholder’s analysis will be an important document for those involved in the formulation of the plan. Governance analysis will indicate the institutional mechanism available that will make the plan happen and what needs to be done to augment it. The stakeholders whose needs and concerns will have to be considered are similar in all countries.

Intergroup clash of interests/concerns are likely in countries S and D (e.g. between interest of industry, city and farmers/fishing community). In the case of L their concerns and needs are very much dependent on actions of S and D; namely developing sustainable fishing through reducing river water pollution and