Stakeholder Analysis of Water Resources Projects in Thailand (original) (raw)

Evaluations of a number of previous water resources projects have identified poor identification of stakeholder needs and inadequate assessment of social impact as main factors of project failure. To address these problems, there has been increased use of stakeholder analysis, a methodology for the identification and prioritization stakeholders so as to facilitate project management throughout the project life cycle. This increased use of stakeholder analysis suggests that project stakeholder management has become one of the major concerns in water resources project management. Two objectives of this study are to identify involved stakeholders in Thai water resources projects by conducting stakeholder analysis using stakeholder management theory and to analyze the example of stakeholder management related to ethical issue. In this study, “stakeholders” refers to all individuals and groups with an interest in a given project. Stakeholder groups were identified in each phase of the pr...