Alaska ACE

Where did your study take place: Northern, Southcentral and Southeast Alaska

When did you engage stakeholders: Mid-way through the project

How did you identify stakeholders? Recommendations of researchers, Contacts plus recommendations of contacts

Who did you engage?

  • Local government
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  • State government
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  • Federal government
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  • Tribal/indigenous members
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  • NGOs
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  • Local business
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  • University or academic

To what extent did your team engage stakeholders? 

  • Engagement that informed or educated stakeholders
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  • Engagement that allowed stakeholders to plan for the future
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  • Engagement that helped stakeholders to identify solutions
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  • Engagement that helped stakeholders envision how to put solutions into practice

What methods did you use to engage stakeholders? 

  • Questionnaire or Survey
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  • Workshops or Conferences
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  • Participatory Scenario Planning

What actions did you take, if any, to meet stakeholder needs?

  • Took into account the biophysical and social context in which the stakeholders were embedded
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  • Shared values with and showed stakeholders respect
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  • Engaged stakeholders early and iterated to keep them engaged
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  • Shared power with stakeholders collaboratively
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  • Co-generated knowledge with stakeholders
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  • Explicitly integrated stakeholder knowledge into the research project
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  • Regularly and transparently communicated with stakeholders
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  • Assessed with worked and what did not work with our stakeholders

What process did you use, if any, to evaluate and monitor your stakeholder engagement?

Assessed stakeholder understanding of concepts, please describe how often this was done.

More than once

Assessed stakeholder satisfaction with the process, please describe how often this was done.

More than once

Did you identify, propose, or implement solutions with stakeholders?

  • Identified

Describe what your team did well engaging stakeholders.

The stakeholders were central to our understanding of the system, which primarily centered around salmon returning to the Kenai River. Stakeholders generated a lot of good ideas and formed a coalition to protect the river after we held our workshops. Stakeholders were energized by envisioning futures for the area.

Describe what your team did well engaging stakeholders.

During this time frame, the tensions were so high about how fish were being allocated among the different commercial fisheries (set net, seine, etc.), recreational, sports, and subsistence that the groups could not meet together. Funding was reallocated on the grant so that we were unable to have meetings with some of these groups.The stakeholders were central to our understanding of the system, which primarily centered around salmon returning to the Kenai River. Stakeholders generated a lot of good ideas and formed a coalition to protect the river after we held our workshops. Stakeholders were energized by envisioning futures for the area.

PI Contact:akliskey@uidaho.edu

AndyKliskey

University of Alaska/University of Idaho

akliskey@uidaho.edu