---
id: "worksheets:exercise/identifying-stakeholders-government"
type: "Solving Public Problems worksheet"
title: "Identifying Stakeholders (Governmental Entities and Their Employees)"
url: "https://worksheets.solvingpublicproblems.org/exercise/identifying-stakeholders-government"
date: "2024-07-11"
summary: "Which communities, organizations, and individuals have the know-how to help you refine your definition of the problem. Brainstorm who needs to be asked..."
source: "Solving Public Problems worksheets (worksheets.solvingpublicproblems.org), The GovLab and the Burnes Center for Social Change"
licence: "none stated"
---

# Identifying Stakeholders (Governmental Entities and Their Employees)

Exercise group: Defining Problems with Human-Centered Design · Recommended exercise

## About this worksheet

- Which communities, organizations, and individuals have the know-how to help you refine your definition of the problem. 
- Brainstorm who needs to be asked. 
- Make sure to include diverse kinds of people, including both average users and outliers, focusing in particular on those who are least likely to have been heard. Make sure you are hearing all viewpoints.

## Questions

1. Who? They might be elected officials and their staff, appointed officials and their staff, or civil servants in executive, legislative, or judicial capacity.Other jurisdictions are likely to have grappled with the same problem your jurisdiction is facing and have experimented with policies and services that will be of use to you.
2. Why? They know what works and what does not.
3. How? You want to target those who have worked on the same or a related problem

## Source

Solving Public Problems, Chapter 5, p. 125

## PDF version

https://directus.theburnescenter.org/assets/7337006a-8ed0-4bbe-a006-a1e619d68b1a

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