a. Preparations

One or more preparatory meetings should be organized with all staff that will be involved in implementing the stakeholder inventory and analysis in order:

• to familiarize them with stakeholder analysis (why, what, when, how),
• to define the methodology to be applied and instruments to be used,
• to define what results are expected to be developed as a result of the stakeholder analysis,
• work planning: who will do what when how/means,
• how to coordinate /monitor these activities.

The meeting(s) should result in a methodological document that should describe: main concepts, methodology, instruments used, operational plan/time schedule/commitments, results to be expected.

b. Inventory of all relevant stakeholders

A first list of all indirect stakeholders involved in urban agriculture can be drawn up by reviewing available information from reliable sources (project reports, websites, databases etcetera) as well as interviewing key informants (what other organizations do they know that work in urban agriculture or in related fields like waste management, food supply and marketing etc.).

The list of stakeholders should include at least the following information:

• name of the organization,
• type of stakeholder (for example a research institute, NGO or governmental department),
• contact details (name and function of contact person(s), address, telephone/fax, e-mail),
• available sources of information on that organization (their website address, year reports, other documents).

c. Collection of further information on each of the identified stakeholders

Further information on each of the identified stakeholders can be collected through interviews with one or more representatives of each organization included in the list. The person to be interviewed should preferably be of senior rank in that organization and his/her views should represent well the institutional viewpoints.

The collected information is added to the stakeholder table which will result in a short stakeholder profile for each of the organizations

d. Analysis of the collected information

Once all organizations in the list have been identified and visited, the collected data is analyzed by drawing lessons regarding:

• The congruency/discrepancy in the views that these organizations have on the main problems of (different types of) urban agriculture and the strategies suggested to solve these problems,
• The congruency/discrepancy in the views that these organizations have on the potentials / future development of (different types of) urban agriculture and the strategies suggested to develop these potentials,
• The existing relations between the various stakeholders, indicating which actors or do not work together and what type of conflicts do exist between them,
• The views these organizations have on their own role in urban agriculture development, and the contributions they might make to future projects, programme and policies on UA,
• Your own assessment of their potential role/contributions: expertise, resources, power, legitimacy, representation, etcetera,
• Based on the above: your assessment of which organizations should be included in planning and implementation for urban agriculture and in what ways/roles? What might we expect from each of them? Please do not only select the ones that are already in favor of urban agriculture. For strategic or practical reasons, you might well need to work with organizations not yet involved in urban agriculture or even holding a negative view on urban agriculture. Specific attention then has to be paid to raising their awareness and motivation in order to change their views on urban agriculture.  
• What are the best ways to motivate the various organizations to participate in the planning and implementation of urban agriculture projects and policies?
• Points of attention (themes / methods) regarding building mutual understanding, networking and enhancing cooperation and communication among the various stakeholders. 

The results of this final analysis could be included in a report on the Stakeholder analysis that will be used as an input to the further planning of urban agriculture development.

Once you really start planning for urban agriculture and start defining possible strategies and interventions, you may come to the conclusion that you will need to involve other and new stakeholders that you had not identified yet during situation analysis, for adequate project design and implementation. You may then need to implement a new stakeholder inventory and analysis.