HABITABLE STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT STRATEGY AND HANDBOOK

Inclusive Stakeholder engagement forms a key aspect of the HABITABLE project. On the one hand, HABITABLE will consult and engage a range of international, regional, national and local actors as part of the research process, through data collection as well as coproduction of research outputs such as policy scenarios. On the other hand, HABITABLE will disseminate its results to various stakeholder groups for better decision making on climate adaptation and migration policies and practices.
This document is intended to be both a handbook and a strategy responding to the WHY? WHAT? And HOW? of Inclusive Stakeholder engagement. It will be guiding the work of all work packages of HABITABLE project, providing clear objectives (WHY), a list of activities (WHAT) to implement to facilitate inclusive SE (strategy) and guidance on HOW stakeholders could and should be involved during all research stages in the different Work Packages (WP) and tasks of HABITABLE (handbook).
This process will also help coordinate stakeholder engagement across partners and WPs to limit stakeholder fatigue and optimize the consultation process. Two important assumptions are driving HABITABLE vision for inclusive stakeholder engagement.
1) the take-up or usage of scientific research findings by non-academic practitioners in their work and policy practices is directly correlated to their participation in the knowledge production process associated with such findings (Jasanoff, 2006),
2) In order to adequately account for gender and social equity in stakeholder dialogues it is essential to consider the inclusion of those who are often not at decision making tables (Habitable Social and Equity Guidance, 2021).
This handbook and the strategy included in it will be a living document, which will be regularly reviewed and updated as the project progresses, with the objective to best align with the needs of project partners.