Making dialogue and collaboration work
These resources provide basic knowledge about the CLI's concepts and approaches that have proved helpful for initiating and implementing Stakeholder Dialogues. They enhance your knowledge and methodological know and can be seen as the kind of background music that sets the tone for a successful change process in sustainability initiatives.
Working with Stakeholder Dialogues
The Dialogic Change Model
Different forms of Stakeholder Dialogues
Engaging stakeholders: building a container for change
Working with Stakeholder Dialogues
Stakeholder Dialogues are a methodology for designing and implementing consultation and cooperation in complex change processes that require different interest groups to be included and integrated. Well-structured Stakeholder Dialogues can create and cultivate ownership of change towards sustainability.
Working with Stakeholder Dialogues (PDF)
The Dialogic Change Model
The Dialogic Change Model suggested here allows for result-oriented, structured planning and implementation of a Stakeholder Dialogue in four phases. It has been developed over time based on experience with successfully implemented Stakeholder Dialogues. It supports and observes the underlying principles of successful Stakeholder Dialogues.
Fact Sheet Dialogic Change Model (PDF)
Understanding different forms of Stakeholder Dialogues
Depending on the issues at stake, on the role of Stakeholder Dialogue initiators and the purpose of the dialogue process, Stakeholder Dialogues can be implemented in different forms. If consultation is at the forefront, once-off stakeholder workshops or a sequence of stakeholder workshops can integrate different viewpoints into planning or decision-making. If collaboration and joint implementation is at the forefront, regular stakeholder meetings become part of an overall strategy for implementation and cooperation.
Different forms of Stakeholder Dialogues (PDF)
Engaging stakeholders: building a container for change
Stakeholders engage when they resonate with the content and goal of a Stakeholder Dialogue, regardless of whether it is a stakeholder consultation, a stakeholder platform, a broader initiative or a stakeholder partnership. Initiators of Stakeholder Dialogues often assume that other stakeholders must be interested in the same issue, and are, by default, willing to engage. However, this is probably the exception. The context of most change initiatives involving Stakeholder Dialogues is much more complex: there can be contradicting agendas of stakeholders, conflicting interests or actors who are overwhelmed by other commitments.
Engaging stakeholders (PDF)
