Stakeholders’ analysis is a critical step in strategy development. The table below describes the stakeholder interests and their power to influence the success of the strategic plan:
TABLE: Analysis of Spectrum Uganda’s Stakeholders | ||
Stakeholders | Stakeholder Interest | How to integrate the stakeholder interest |
Development Partners | Developing and cultivating relationships, increasing awareness, research, and community-led monitoring programs | Develop and implement projects in mutually aligned thematic areas |
Employees | Job security, conducive working environment, career development, competitive remuneration and job satisfaction | Jointly promote fundamental rights and social development for the youth; Effectively and efficiently implement national economic, social, and cultural development projects |
General Public | Provide an enabling environment that respects, supports, and develops employees | Awareness raising and community engagement |
Making, adjusting, and monitoring policies, by-laws, and laws and overseeing their implementation, impacting almost all aspects of vulnerable Children and youth | Healthcare institutions, education, professionals, and policymakers | Increase access to services through the development of contextualized and responsive programming |
Law enforcement and justice system (Justice, Law and Order Sector – JLOS) | Implementing national laws and policies; Protecting beneficiaries from hate crimes and violence | Network and advocate for attention to cases of human rights abuses and other forms of violence |
Children and Youth | Access to services; Voice to be heard; Protection and promotion of human rights, safe spaces, community | Establish and operationalize MoUs to address cases of human rights abuses and other forms of violence |
Local Governments; National Government | Networking, collaboration, and leveraging of existing domestic violations reporting mechanisms | Providing adequate education and health services targeted to the specific needs, health and well-being of children and youth |
National and international CSOs, community groups and movements | Influencing legislation and policies or countering government attempts to limit civic space; Mobilising communities/society to articulate demands and voice concerns at all levels; Challenging societal norms | Increased engagement, research, collaboration and advocacy initiatives |
Online and Offline media | Shaping or reaffirming societal norms and stereotypes of children and youth | Media engagement for raising awareness and improving reporting on issues affecting beneficiaries |
Private sector; employers, unions | Capacity building, awareness, collaboration, and engagement programs | Increased engagement, research, collaboration, and advocacy initiatives |
Religious and traditional leaders/institutions | Awareness-raising initiatives, capacity building, and community participation | Providing employment, income, skills, safety, and socio-economic protection for children and youth |
The education system, schools, universities, teachers and policymakers | The Commission has a broad range of functions under the Constitution of Uganda; specifically, it is empowered to investigate any violation or abuse of human rights by state institutions or other actors; and to make recommendations on how violations of human rights can be prevented in the future, and to advise the government on measures that need to be taken for promoting harmonious relations among the various peoples of Uganda. | The education system is critical in ensuring that the population is well-equipped to play a full and productive role in society. It is also used to shape or reaffirm societal norms through curricula and learning environments, which will impact the socio-economic opportunities available to individuals within their own lives. |
Uganda Human Rights Commission | Religious leaders have always been at the forefront of shaping and interpreting morals, norms/values and customary laws. They are recognized as the final authority to interpret religious law, with followers putting their trust in their guidance. | Research and awareness-building interventions |