Community Development Different Tools of Analysis

Stakeholders Analysis
A stakeholder analysis is the process of identifying these people before the project
begins, categorizing them based on their level of participation, interest, and influence in the
project, and determining how to best involve and communicate with each of these stakeholder
groups throughout.
What’s the Purpose of a Stakeholder Analysis?
1. To enlist the help of key organizational players.
2. To gain early alignment among all stakeholders on goals and plans.
3. To help address conflicts or issues early on.

Resource Mapping Analysis

A method for collating and plotting information on the occurrence, distribution, access
and use of resources within the economic and cultural domain of a specific community. The
focus of resource mapping is on what communities have to offer by identifying assets and
resources that can be used to build communities. The process recognizes that individuals,
organizations, and local institutions all have the ability to effect real change in their
communities.

Purpose: To enable community members to identify, locate, and categorize

occurrence, distribution, and use of resources in the past and present
tenure and access, as well as to demonstrate the significance of
Participants become attached to them. Locations of critical importance, such as
areas notorious for illegal fishing, pollution, siltation, and so on
can be recognized and mapped. To allow the establishment of relations between information sets
and their spatial location (e.g., establishing visual relations between resources and/or issues).

Class Analysis
Class analysis is a theoretical approach in the social sciences. It explores the determinants
and consequences of social phenomena in terms of class and class relations. Class analysis views
society as being divided into hierarchical strata that have unequal access to material resources,
power, and influence. Class analysis is the study of the stratification of society into dynamic
classes in sociology, politics, and economics. It implies that there is no universal or uniform
social viewpoint, but rather that fundamental conflicts exist as a result of how society is currently
organized.

SWOT Analysis
 SWOT is an acronym that stands for Strength, Weakness, Opportunity, and Threat. A
SWOT analysis assists you in determining your organization's strengths and weaknesses (S-W),
as well as larger opportunities and threats (O-T). Gaining a more complete understanding of the
situation aids in both strategic planning and decision-making. Remember that the purpose of
performing a SWOT is to reveal positive forces that work together and potential problems that
need to be recognized and possibly addressed.

Institutional Analysis
When considering community development programs, an institutional analysis
determines which institutions are present in a community, how each institution relates to the
others, and who participates in them. Schools, religious buildings, sports teams, fishing or
farming cooperatives, women's groups, youth groups, businesses, and government offices are all
examples of institutions. An institutional analysis is frequently carried out in a workshop setting,
with the best way to use this tool being a Venn diagram, with different sized circles representing
each institution.