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Running Head: IDENTIFYING STAKEHOLDERS AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS
Identifying Stakeholders and Community Partners
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IDENTIFYING STAKEHOLDERS AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS
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A stakeholder refers to a person or a group of people and/or entities that have something
to lose or gain trough the results of a project or planning process. It’s a person with concern or
interest in something. A stakeholder can also be defined as an individual or party that in some
way must be taken into account by the organization’s managers, leaders, and/or front line staff.
An organization operates in an environment and most of its decisions affect either directly or
indirectly some group of people. For this reason, therefore, stakeholders must be involved when
making key decisions as well as policies and plans. Stakeholders are basically the recipient of a
policy and determine the success or failure of a program. This paper will identify the
organization’s stakeholders and other community partners. The health care organization used in
the paper is a community hospital.
Stakeholder analysis is the approach used to identify the individuals and entities that have
an interest in the policy. Stakeholder support, starting with policy design and progressing
through the analysis, is critical to a successful policy advocacy plan. Stakeholders are involved
during each phase of the plan to build support for it. The following are some of the stakeholders
who will be affected by the policy advocacy plan;
1. Patients and their families
Patients are one of the key stakeholders of the hospital. They are the recipient of the
organization’s products and services and thus are directly affected by the policy advocacy
program. The policy advocacy plan will benefit the patients as well as their families because the
plan will include the HIV/AIDS intervention programs. The hospital has a legal and ethical
responsibility of catering for the needs of the patients. Their needs basically entail preventive and
treatment options for HIV/AIDS. Additionally, the patients’ families are also key stakeholders of
the hospital because the policy will directly affect them. For this reason, therefore, the patients,
as well as their families, should be involved in the decision-making p...