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Introduction Categorising and Understanding Stakeholders

The Panchayat Development Index shall be a vital statistical influencing Panchayat Development Index
tool to capture the definitive movements in development at the There are several methods of categorising stakeholders involved
grassroots and help witness the impact of Central Schemes, in this initiative. The stakeholders of the Panchayat
State Schemes, PRIs’ actions and of all others involved at the Development Index may be directly or indirectly affected by or
Panchayat level. While providing a holistic assessment, it have an effect on it and to their relationship to the effort in
provides also assessments and measures of status of question. Using the influence and importance matrix, the
development and progress across the SDGs through the Themes stakeholders involved in the Panchayat Development Index also
that can be used by all the Stakeholders concerned in analysis identify themselves as those whose support/programmes/
for enabling better achievement of developmental outcomes. schemes is needed in the initiative and those whose needs are

The Stakeholder Analysis is essential for effective planning and needed to be considered in the design and implementation of the
implementation of the Panchayat Development Index given its Index. Often times the most important stakeholders may have
very little influence on the project’s implementation in the GP
scope reaching out to a wide variety of stakeholders/players/
as well as success, and vice-versa. Therefore, understanding
agencies/actors concerned in the Panchayat arena. These
include the Panchayats themselves at the 3 levels of Village, how to engage these stakeholders to foster ownership and create
Block (Intermediate) and District, Ministry of Panchayati Raj, a sustainable and efficient environment for the implementation
NITI Aayog, other Central Ministries and Departments, State of the Index could be explored through the Stakeholder
Governments, as well as UN Agencies and other knowledge Analysis tool.
partners, Non-Governmental Organisations, CSOs, etc. This Each of these below give a dimension and understanding to the
tool is crucial to effectively map the entities, directly and implementation and progression of PDI :
indirectly, related to their connect through their programmes
Primary, Secondary and Key Stakeholders
and interventions in the impact on the implementation of the
various facets of the Index and help them engage in the right
direction. It shall also be essential in clarifying and evolving the
roles and relationships, as well as determining the variety of
interests for which each actor will be accountable when
implementing the Index. Implementation at the grassroots level
or fetching data from programs and schemes from the
Panchayat level comes with a series of challenges during their
design, testing, development and implementation stages. This
tool shall also be beneficial in identifying the challenges that
may come up in the process. The PDI stakeholders would then
be going through the processes leading to grasping the elusive
convergent action, to bring in the whole of government and
whole of society approach for moving to higher levels seen
through the PDI.

PDI Stakeholder Venn Diagram

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