Barriers and opportunities for stakeholder engagement

Project LEO has produced a series of Barriers and Opportunities Reports throughout the project. This short report focusses on barriers and opportunities to stakeholder engagement within Project LEO. It is based interviews with project partners on this topic, together with information synthesised from other reports.

The report highlights 10 high level themes that cut across the various stakeholder types and engagement purposes and includes.

1. Understanding and knowledge of flexibility
2. Medium of communication
3. Relevance and alignment with stakeholders’ existing priorities and concerns
4. Engaging through key organisations and individuals
5. Recognising stakeholders’ efforts
6. Spatially concentrated engagement
7. Financial and technical challenges to participation
8. Engaging up to and beyond technology installation, trial enrolment or the uptake of new tools.
9. Learning from experiences of stakeholder engagement
10. Project frameworks for stakeholder engagement.

It then makes a series of recommendations to support future stakeholder engagement activities in Section 3.