Animal health surveillance plays a vital role in ensuring public health, animal welfare, and sustainable food production by monitoring disease trends, early detecting (new) hazards, facilitating disease control and infection, and providing data for risk analysis. Good stakeholder collaboration across the sector can lead to better communication, better science and decision-making and more effective surveillance and response. An understanding of relevant stakeholders, their interests and their power can facilitate such collaboration. While information on key stakeholders in animal health surveillance is available at the national level in Tanzania, it is missing at the subnational level. The study aimed to explore the existing stakeholders' collaborations and influences at the subnational level through stakeholder mapping and to determine potential leverage points for improving the national animal health surveillance system. A qualitative design was used, involving consultative workshops with government animal health practitioners in Sumbawanga, Sikonge and Kilombero districts of Tanzania from December 2020 to January 2021. Data were collected using an adapted USAID stakeholder collaboration mapping tool with the following steps: (i) Define the objective (ii) Identify all stakeholders (iii) Take stock of the current relationships (iv) Determine resource-based influence (v) Determine non-resource based influence and (vi) Review and revise the collaboration map. Forty-five stakeholders were identified in all three districts and grouped into four categories: private sector and non-government organizations (n = 16), government (n = 16), community (n = 9) and political leaders (n = 4). Animal health practitioners had a stronger relationship with community stakeholders as compared to other categories. The results also showed that most of the stakeholders have non-resource-based influence compared to resource-based influence. The private sector and non-government organizations have a relatively higher number of resource-based influential stakeholders, while political leaders have more non-resource-based influence. The mapping exercise demonstrated that the system could benefit from community mobilization and sensitization, resource mobilization and expanding the horizon of surveillance data sources. Some of the leverage points include integration of surveillance activities into animal health services, clear operational processes, constant engagement, coordination and incentivization of stakeholders. The diversity in the identified stakeholders across the districts suggests that collaborations are contextual and socially constructed.

These files consist of the data and scripts to replicate the findings in "Who Wants Stakeholder Capitalism? Public and Elite Perceptions of the Role of Business Leaders in Politics".

The Kenai River Fishery is a unique social–ecological system (SES) with nearly 50 federal, state, local, and nonprofit groups influencing its political, ecological, and social structure. While ecological data exists for this fishery, the complexity of its stakeholder relationships has not been investigated. Stakeholder interactions can directly influence how science is integrated into management decisions and therefore affect the adaptive capacity of SES, such as the Kenai River Fishery. Drawing from the existing stakeholder literature, this methods identifies and ranks the key SES stakeholders and describes their roles. This study approached the question of which stakeholders should be included in a future SES adaptive capacity study by (1) identifying the key stakeholders within the Kenai River Fishery, (2) ranking each stakeholder’s investment within the fishery using eleven categories of interaction, and (3) using these eleven categories to characterize each stakeholder's role within the SES. The largest number of stakeholders fall into the secondary investment category, showing that a relatively small number of resource managers are interacting with a large number of diverse nonprofit organizations. The top ranking stakeholders in this study will be invited to attend participatory scenarios workshops that will build the foundation for a deeper scenarios-based analysis of SES adaptive capacity.

How do rulers soften resistance by local powerholders to state-building efforts? This paper highlights a strategy of compensation, where elites receive government offices in exchange for relinquishing their localist interests, and become uprooted and integrated into the national political system as stakeholders. We explore this strategy in the context of the Northern Wei Dynasty of China (386-534 CE) that terminated an era of state weakness during which aristocrats exercised local autonomy through strongholds. Exploiting a comprehensive state-building reform in the late 5th century, we find that aristocrats from previously autonomous localities were disproportionately recruited into the bureaucracy as compensation for accepting stronger state presence. Three mechanisms of bureaucratic compensation facilitated state-building. Offices received by those aristocrats: (1) carried direct benefits; (2) realigned their interests toward the ruler; and (3) mitigated credible commitment problems. Our findings shed light on the “First Great Divergence” between Late Antiquity Europe and Medieval China.

Snakebite envenoming is a debilitating neglected tropical disease disproportionately affecting the rural poor in low and middle-income countries in the tropics and sub-tropics. Critical questions and gaps in public health and policy need to be addressed if major progress is to be made towards reducing the negative impact of snakebite, particularly in the World Health Organisation (WHO) Africa region. We engaged key stakeholders to identify barriers to evidence-based snakebite decision making and to explore how development of research and policy hubs could help to overcome these barriers. We conducted an electronic survey among 73 stakeholders from ministries of health, health facilities, academia and non-governmental organizations from 15 countries in the WHO Africa region. The primary barriers to snakebite research and subsequent policy translation were limited funds, lack of relevant data, and lack of interest from policy makers. Adequate funding commitment, strong political will, building expert networks and a demand for scientific evidence were all considered potential factors that could facilitate snakebite research. Participants rated availability of antivenoms, research skills training and disease surveillance as key research priorities. All participants indicated interest in the development of research and policy hubs and 78% indicated their organization would be willing to actively participate. In conclusion, our survey affirms that relevant stakeholders in the field of snakebite perceive research and policy hubs as a promising development, which could help overcome the barriers to pursuing the WHO goals and targets for reducing the burden of snakebite.

Matthew Taylor, Chief Adviser on Political Strategy to the Prime Minister between 2005 and 2007 explains the importance of stakeholder and media strategies adopted by the Turner Pensions Commission.

Paper: Barari, Soubhik. "Political Speech from Corporate America: Sparse, Mostly for Democrats, and Somewhat Representative." Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media (2024). Abstract: How do corporations engage in political speech in the age of social media? Evidence suggests that online corporate brands employ a variety of partisan signals which include not only ideological positions but also more subtle, implicit appeals to partisans. Identifying and scaling a broad range of these signals in ≈2 million Twitter and Instagram posts from the 1,000 most popular corporate brands in the United States, I find that most corporate brands’ speech mirrors the speech of Democrats, but this is concentrated in a handful of brands and occurs in uneven bursts across time. Moreover, this communication is not as dishonest as popular narratives suggest: the majority of brands’ partisan speech well represents the political preferences of key stakeholders (e.g. employees, voters, and consumers) and is at least somewhat informative about corporate governance practices (e.g. political spending, DEI priorities, and climate policy). These results provide a measured counterbalance to popular narratives of ‘woke capitalism’, suggesting that political speech from corporate America is, at worst, sometimes inconsistent with stakeholders and firm agendas rather than outright hypocritical.

The data being archived is drawn from interviews and participant content from the MMA app at the case study sites with members of the community being affected by the proposed smart city projects. These are interviews conducted at six case study sites with individuals and groups who are regular users of space at these sites. The themes cover histories of engagement with these spaces, community and business histories, personal geographies, and narratives of negotiating political engagements with various city-level actors such as local politicians, the municipality, and police.

This dataset contains original quantitative datafiles, analysis data, a codebook, R scripts, syntax for replication, the original output from R studio and figures from a statistical program. The analyses can be found in Chapter 3 of my PhD dissertation, i.e., ‘Political Factors Affecting the EU Legislative Decision-Making Speed’. The data supporting the findings of this study are accessible and replicable. Restrictions apply to the availability of these data, which were used under license for this study. The datafiles include: File name of R script: Chapter 3 script.R File name of syntax: Syntax for replication 3.0.docx File name of the original output from R studio: The original output 3.0.pdf File name of code book: Codebook 3.0.txt File name of the analysis data: data3.0.xlsx File name of the dataset: Original quantitative data.xlsx File name of figures: Chapter 3 Figures.zip

This dataset contains a set of semi-structured interviews with (motor) insurers, insurance stakeholders, and stakeholders in transport or law working closely with insurers. The interviews, across multiple countries, were based on semi-structured questions around how current and future mobility developments and innovations - Electric Vehicles, Autonomous Vehicles, Mobility Data, Micro-Mobility and Shared Mobility - affect insures, and how insurers in turn affect these shifts in our mobility. Questions were asked about the most important mobility challenges that insurers witnessed; how these mobility developments affect them from a underwriting, busines, legal, claims and pricing perspective; how insurers are adapting to these development (in terms of collaborations, lobby, learning, etc.); and whether insurers should have an explicit role to play in the mobility transition.

Interviewees (N=52) either consented writtenly through Oxfords consent form (stored) or verbally (on record) to be quoted anonymously. Those who did not agree explicitly to anonymous quotation have been excluded from data archiving (n=13). Data thus comprises of 39 transcripts in Word format (totalling less than 3MB) with insurers or stakeholders in transport or law working closely with (motor) insurers in the United Kingdom, Netherlands or Germany. We've further included 1 semi-structured questionairre in Word format to reference the semi-structured questions asked to stakeholders; a data table with an anonymized overview of the interviewees in Excel format; and an blank consent form shared with interviewees.

All transcripts have been through a round of anonymisation: removal of any direct (names, companies, age, profesional history) and indirect indentifiers (references to people/meetings, etc), with stronger anonymisation the more unique the organisation (as more identifiable). At any time, use of quotes should be anonymously attributed to general branch/sector!

Aligning with people’s values in landscape political decisions can help to minimise conflicts between stakeholders and support social acceptability of solutions for systemic transitions. This paper explores how shared and diverging values of the main stakeholders involved in socio-ecological crises, and the co-creation of solutions, can be key for finding common grounds for conflict resolution and sustainable socio-ecosystems management. These concepts were applied by a participatory process to identify and select solutions for the environmental and socio-economic crisis of the Mar Menor coastal lagoon and its watershed (SE Spain). With information from six sectorial workshops and one multisector workshop, a stakeholder analysis based on values and initiatives was performed. The results indicate that all the stakeholder groups prioritised transition to governance, economic and educational models that respect nature and cultural landscapes, with values aligning with the population’s identity and their livelihoods. The values and solutions linked with stakeholders ‘Farmers’, which represented the dominant model of high intensive agriculture in the area, differentiated most from the other stakeholders directly affected by the impact of their activities, such as ‘Fishers and salt producers’, ‘Tourism sector’ and ‘Local population’. Despite marked similarity in the underlying values among most stakeholders, reaching an agreement on initiatives can still be difficult. Therefore, we propose a conceptual model to find common grounds for negotiation based on shared values and initiatives. In those cases in which no common ground is found and disagreement persists, rules and enforcement are needed to protect all stakeholders’ sustainable development and livelihood.

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Abstract

The Country Opinion Survey in Uganda assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in gaining a better understanding of how stakeholders in Uganda perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national and local governments, multilateral/bilateral agencies, media, academia, the private sector, and civil society in Uganda on 1) their views regarding the general environment in Uganda; 2) their overall attitudes toward the WBG in Uganda; 3) overall impressions of the WBG's effectiveness and results, knowledge work and activities, and communication and information sharing in Uganda; and 4) their perceptions of the WBG's future role in Uganda.

Geographic coverage

Kampala City, Central Uganda, Eastern Uganda, Northern Uganda and Western Uganda.

Analysis unit

Stakeholders

Universe

Opinion leaders from national and local governments, multilateral/bilateral agencies, media, academia, the private sector, and civil society.

Kind of data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Sampling procedure

In AFrom January to March 2014, 600 stakeholders of the World Bank Group in Uganda were invited to provide their opinions on the WBG's assistance to the country by participating in a country survey. Participants in the survey were drawn from among the office of the President or Prime Minister; the office of a Minister; the office of a Parliamentarian; employees of a ministry, ministerial department, or implementation agency; consultants/contractors working on World Bank Group-supported projects/programs; project management units (PMUs) overseeing implementation of a project; local government officials or staff; bilateral agencies; multilateral agencies; private sector organizations; private foundations; the financial sector/private banks; NGOs; community-based organizations (CBOs); the media; independent government institutions; trade unions; faith-based groups; academia/research institutes/think tanks; the judiciary branch; cultural leaders; and political parties. A total of 326 stakeholders participated in the survey.

Mode of data collection

Other [oth]

Research instrument

The questionnaire consists of 8 Sections:

A. General Issues Facing Uganda: Respondents were asked to indicate whether Uganda is headed in the right direction, what they thought were the most important development priorities, which areas would contribute most to reducing poverty, which areas would contribute most to generating economic growth, and what would achieve “shared prosperity”.

B. Overall Attitudes toward the World Bank Group: Respondents were asked to rate their familiarity with the WBG, its effectiveness in Uganda, WBG staff preparedness, the effectiveness of its activities, to what extent it should provide capacity building support to certain groups, the importance and effectiveness of the WBG’s current capacity building work, their agreement with various statements regarding the WBG’s work, and the extent to which it is an effective development partner. Respondents were also asked to indicate the sectoral areas on which it would be most productive for the WBG to focus its resources, the WBG’s greatest values and greatest weaknesses, its most effective instruments, with which stakeholder groups the WBG should collaborate more, if the WBG should have more or less of a local presence in Uganda, and to what they attributed slowed or failed reform efforts.

C. World Bank Group’s Effectiveness and Results: Respondents were asked to rate the extent to which the WBG’s work helps achieve development results in Uganda, the extent to which the WBG meets Uganda’s needs for knowledge services and financial instruments, the extent to which the WBG’s internal evaluation mechanisms hold it accountable for achieving results, and the importance of the WBG’s involvement and the WBG’s level of effectiveness across thirty-one development areas. Respondents were also asked to indicate if WBG decisions regarding its Uganda program were made primarily in country or at Headquarters.

D. The World Bank Group’s Knowledge Work and Activities: Respondents were asked to indicate how frequently they consult WBG knowledge work and to rate the quality of the WBG’s knowledge work and activities, including how significant of a contribution it makes to development results and its technical quality.

E. Working with the World Bank: Respondents were asked to rate the extent to which various aspects of the WBG’s technical assistance/advisory work contribute to solving Uganda’s development challenges and their agreement with a series of statements regarding working with the WBG. Respondents were asked to indicate if the WBG operates with too much risk.

F. The Future Role of the World Bank Group in Uganda: Respondents were asked to indicate what the WBG should do to make itself of greater value in Uganda, which of its services the WBG should offer more of in Uganda, the areas related to the oil and gas sector in Uganda where the WBG should provide greater support, and whether respondents would like to see more or less WBG involvement in the oil and gas sector.

G. Communication and Information Sharing: Respondents were asked to indicate how they get information about economic and social development issues, how they prefer to receive information from the WBG, their Internet access, and their usage and evaluation of the WBG’s websites. Respondents were asked about their awareness of the WBG’s Access to Information policy, past information requests from the WBG, and their level of agreement that they use more data from the World Bank Group as a result of the WBG’s Open Data policy. Respondents were also asked to evaluate the WBG’s information accessibility and responsiveness to information requests.

H. Background Information: Respondents were asked to indicate their current position, specialization, whether they currently collaborate with the WBG, with which WBG agencies they work, their exposure to the WBG in Uganda, and their geographic location.

Response rate

54% response rate

The Census@Leicester datasets include socio-demographic data from the 2001, 2011, and 2021 Leicester censuses to enable the exploration of recent historical trends. It also includes data from the 2021 census for both Nottingham and Coventry to enable comparisons with other cities.

This online resource that can be used for teaching and research purposes by staff and students and to create a legacy for the Census@Leicester Project.

Number of study participants.

The concept of food and nutrition policy has broadened from simply being an aspect of health policy, to policy interventions from across a wide range of sectors, but still with potentially important impact on nutritional outcomes. This wider and more complex conceptualisation involves policy with multiple objectives and stakeholder influences. Thus, it becomes particularly important to understand the dynamics of these policy processes, including policy design and implementation. To add to this literature, we apply the Kaleidoscope Model for understanding policy change in developing country contexts to the case-study of an agricultural input subsidy (AIS) programme in Malawi, the Farm Input Subsidy Programme (FISP), exploring the dynamics of the FISP policy process including nutritional impact. Over a three-month period between 2017 and 2019 we conducted in-depth interviews with key stakeholders at national and district levels, and focus groups with people from rural districts in Malawi. We also undertook a review of literature relating to the political economy of the FISP. We analysed the data thematically, as per the domains of the Kaleidoscope Model. The analysis across the FISP policy process including policy design and implementation highlights how stakeholders’ ideas, interests and influence have shaped the evolution of FISP policy including constraints to policy improvement–and the nutritional impacts of this. This approach extends the literature on the tensions, contradictions and challenges in food and nutrition policy by examining the reasons that these occur in Malawi with the FISP. We also add to the political science and policy analysis literature on policy implementation, extending the concept of veto players to include those targeted by the policy. The findings are important for consideration by policymakers and other stakeholders seeking to address malnutrition in rural, food-insecure populations in Malawi and other low-income settings.

S1 Data - Stakeholders’ awareness and perception towards graphic health warning, opportunities and challenges for tobacco control policy in Nepal: A qualitative study

Concepts maps and content analysis generated using Leximancer for the stakeholder group, Social Commentary, a component of thesis, the Socioethical Implications of Body Worn Computers: An Ethnographic Study. This research was conducted in the Faculty of Engineering and Information Systems, School of Computing and Information Technology (SCIT) at the University of Wollongong with research strength Innovation in Business & Social Research under Principal Supervisor Professor Katina Michael (University of Wollongong) and Associate Supervisor Dr Teemu Leinonen (Aalto University Finland). The full thesis can be accessed at https://ro.uow.edu.au/theses1/853

Percentage of articles that include the most mentioned sub-theme within each main theme.

The systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) data are imperative to quantify the AMR burden, monitor and identify emerging AMR, and inform global, international, and national health strategies and guidelines. Despite ongoing global efforts to improve surveillance capacities across Nigeria and other African countries, laboratory information management systems (LIMS) that could improve data quality, and completeness remain underutilized. We used a participatory research approach, drawing on the unique experiences of various stakeholders, such as data analysts, laboratory scientists, infection prevention and control specialists, medical doctors, and representatives from the National Coordinating Center in Nigeria. Over two phases of evidence synthesis, involving in-depth interviews and a participatory co-design workshop, we sought to understand the experiences of key stakeholders in using the LIMS tool, WHONET, for AMR surveillance, and co-develop solutions and priorities to address the challenges they experience. We identified a complex interplay of systemic/political factors and structural/user-related factors that influence the use of WHONET as a LIMS. Key areas for intervention identified by stakeholders include addressing infrastructural deficits, enhancing stakeholder engagement, and improving the perceived usefulness of the system, as well as the need for management support. Stakeholders also identified 18 potential solutions to tackle key challenges, ten of which require low effort and have a high influence on LIMS use behaviors. Our study highlights the multifaceted challenges affecting the effective utilization of WHONET for AMR surveillance in Nigeria. The co-developed solutions provide a roadmap for targeted interventions to strengthen AMR surveillance capacity and inform evidence-based public health strategies.