Useful knowledge

1. Stakeholder analysis, problem analysis, and objective analysis of the PCM method

Stakeholder analysis

There are a variety of stakeholders in the local fishing industry, including fishermen, villagers, distributors, processors, and fishers from surrounding villages. As their relationships are often complex, the characteristics of the stakeholders and their relationships will be organized with mapping based on the opinions of the workshop participants. The information obtained from the preliminary survey is often useful for the workshop facilitator to[1] understand the thinking of the stakeholders on the ground and to steer the workshop in the right direction.

Problem analysis and objective analysis

Workshop participants are asked to write down the problems of fisheries resources and fisheries around the target site. Then, the relationships between the problems are put in order by all participants (problem analysis).
The solved states of each problem identified are written down and put in order (goal analysis). It is a method of finding solutions to large and complex problems by breaking them down and simplifying them.