Stakeholder Map

Method

In order to keep the map simple and easy to read, only the main governance levels, actors and actions of the emergency response were selected. 

The actors that were identified as equivalent to each other and with similar roles have been labelled under similar names (e.g. instead of writing the exact designations of the Interior Ministries for each country, all of them were labelled under: national state authorities). The original designations of the relevant actors that each label refers to can be found in the QRCode on the poster. Additionally, a coloured differentiation was made between the governmental responsible authorities (pink), other actors (light grey), and management structures such as crisis cells (dark grey).

Four main actions and functions the actors can take during the response were selected and defined as follows:

• Decides: acts with an overall responsibility, for instance by activating task forces or giving directives and orders (assigning tasks to others)

• Informs: provides information to others, for instance advice or warnings

• Operates: acts directly in the response, either by self-initiative, either by deciding how to execute tasks and orders 

• Coordinates: gives directives that can be accepted or declined by the relevant organisation.

• Supports: helps other actors through administrative (e.g. sends human resources like experts), technical (e.g. sends material resources like trucks) or operational support (e.g. sends operational units like a group of firefighters) 

As similar words can be used for different governance levels (e.g. regions in the Netherlands refer to a precise administrative boundary, whereas in Germany, it is more a cultural boundary), they have kept their direct translation from English, without trying to create an equivalent label, but rather equivalent colours.

 

Beyond giving a first common understanding of the different disaster risk management systems for each country, this map supports the theoretical background of the interviews conducted for WP5. As it illustrates the response mechanism as planned by the different countries, it will serve as a basis to understand how the response that was implemented by the different actors in last year’s floods differed from the initial planning. This work can help identify certain challenges related to the government systems.