Tangible results in stakeholder engagement

Stakeholder Dialogues have become a key element for finding solutions to the complex challenges of sustainable development. The intention of stakeholder dialogues is in its essence dialogic: to get people from different walks of life and different perspectives on an issue together into a result-oriented conversation. In high quality stakeholder dialogues differences, even conflicts, hold the potential for innovative solutions and the achievement of goals that ultimately benefit all.


Participants of our programs can exchange experience, gain insights, knowledge and practical skills to build consensus-building stakeholder relationships, convene networks for high impact solutions, and create the space for learning and collaborating with different stakeholders. You will learn essential tools for successful implementation of result-oriented stakeholder dialogues.

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Why stakeholder dialogues?
Stakeholder dialogues done in the right way ease implementation processes for sustainable action. It helps participating actors to see reality and wanted change from different perspectives. Thus, consensus processes are of high quality, more reliable and the likelihood of implementation is higher. Examples:

  • A City in Central Europe develops its national climate-change strategy in a stakeholder dialogue...
  • A textile company engages in dialogue with its critics...
  • An African Ministry develops a new export strategy with all actors in the textile value chain...
  • A European country develops its sustainability strategy in a stakeholder dialogue...
  • A food-industry enterprise drafts its CSR-Strategy in cooperation with critical stakeholders...
  • A trade association initiates a dialogue on cooperation with actors from development cooperation...
  • A Ministry brings together actors from private sector and polity in order to promote the implementation of social standards...
  • A European company writes its sustainability report together with its stakeholders in a "wiki"-approach
  • A Ministry in Asia develops the new land policy in a stakeholder dialogues...
 
 
 
 
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