Stakeholders
The stakeholder engagement for the North Manila Bay Flood Protection Strategy aims to engage the stakeholders in a meaningful way, considering their aspirations, sentiments, and recommendations at different project stages.
Stakeholder engagement principles
The stakeholder engagement has been divided into stages that are executed in chronological order but can be overlapping/updated during subsequent phases.
Stage 1: Identification of Stakeholders
The stakeholders engaged by the North Manila Bay Flood Protection Strategy are classified into three groups:
Stage 2: Stakeholder engagement and information sharing
The stage of engagement, information generation, and data sharing occurs at the initial part of the Project.
Stage 3: Consultation, feedback, and interest
Small one-on-one meetings were used to engage with stakeholders to discuss ongoing and planned projects in North Manila Bay, align similar initiatives, share data, discuss findings of the project team, recommend nature-based solutions and pilot
Stage 4: Strategy and possible pilot feedback
In this stage of stakeholder engagement, the findings of the Study were presented to the concerned stakeholders. The proposed nature-based solutions and possible pilot locations were discussed.
Stage 5: Stakeholder Analysis
A power–interest matrix was used to classify stakeholders in terms of the power they hold and the extent to which they are likely to be involved.
Institutional Setting
Analysing and finding the right institutional setting will be pivotal for the success of smaller-scale implementation and the implementation of the strategy itself.
Institutions
An overview of the institutional responsibilities of the NGAs and LGUs in the Philippines is provided in the table below.
Institutional Risks
The outputs of the Focus Group Discussions among the stakeholders and the Manila Bay Sustainable Development Masterplan [57] include the comments and sentiments of the communities and stakeholders concerning the flooding situation in their