Stakeholder Analysis: Sundarbans Resilience Project
In the Sundarbans Resilience Project (SRP), power is concentrated at the top, with national government agencies and international donors wielding the strongest influence through their control over policy, funding, and strategic priorities. While researchers provide the technical blueprints and NGOs serve as essential intermediaries that bridge the gap between policy and practice, these groups remain secondary to the primary decision-makers who hold formal authority.
This creates a distinct power imbalance for local communities; although they are the primary beneficiaries and possess vital contextual knowledge, they remain largely dependent on project outcomes with minimal formal influence over high-level design. This vulnerability is most acute for marginalized groups, such as women and forest-dependent households, whose voices are often overshadowed.