Stakeholder
A person or group that affects, is affected by or has an interest in a decision or activity.
Example
Project neighbours, workers and local authorities may all be stakeholders.
The catch
Consultation should include affected people with less institutional power.
In more depth
Stakeholder, explained.
Stakeholder analysis usually sorts people by how much a decision affects them and how much influence they hold over it, which shows where engagement effort should go. EU sustainability reporting separates affected stakeholders, whose lives or environment a company's activities touch, from the users of its reports, such as investors, and both inform its materiality assessment.
Name the stakeholders. A report that thanks its stakeholders without saying who was asked, how, and what changed as a result tells readers little. Consultation records views. Informed consent gives people the power to refuse, a far higher bar for projects on community land.