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multistakeholder

multistakeholder

1 7.5
A group of people who represent different groups and decide together
  • noun
  • /ˌmʌltiˈsteɪkˌhoʊldər/
translation icon : foro multisectorial
  • At the conference, representatives from various sectors participated in a multistakeholder discussion to address climate change issues.

Examples

  • The new policy was developed through a multistakeholder approach, ensuring that all relevant voices were heard in the decision-making process.

  • The TFPC is a multistakeholder subcommittee of Toronto's Board of Health that addresses food-security issues ranging from food access, poverty, health, and nutrition to environment, planning, agriculture, and urban sprawl.

    Academic text (2004)
  • I helped draft the scenarios for Rising Waters, a multistakeholder scenarios effort focused on climate change adaptation in the Hudson Valley.

    Blog text (19)
  • From its start, the HA has been a multistakeholder group with its board consisting of public officials from all three levels of government, who now sit as nonvoting "advisors," business representatives, educators, and community representatives.

    Academic text (2005)
  • Focusing on multistakeholder partnerships and the role of global food security initiatives in reducing hunger at the national level, the "National Food Security" session of GCARD 2012 brings to the attention a key question: How do we coordinate our global efforts to reach specific regional and national goals?

    Blog text (3)
  • Congress passed a non-binding resolution earlier this year urging the United States delegation to "promote a global Internet free from government control and preserve and advance the successful multistakeholder model that governs the Internet today."

    Blog text (32)
  • (n8) The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) is a multistakeholder effort to increase transparency in transactions between governments and companies within extractive industries.

    Academic text (2009)
  • ACAP groups were seen by Environment Canada as multistakeholder "organizations that could assume a leadership role for the planning and management of regional coastal ecosystems" (Ellsworth, Hildebrand, and Glover, 1997).

    Academic text (2005)
  • The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) is an important multistakeholder effort involving governments, companies, and civil society to promote transparency.

Surface Forms

Morphology

multistakeholder = stakeholder (transparent) = multi + stake + holder

The nominal sense is built from the same transparent multi- + stakeholder structure used in the adjective.

Etymology

Multistakeholder as a noun names a group or forum made of several stakeholders, where stakeholder joins 'stake' meaning 'an interest' and holder, like a 'ticket holder', someone who has that interest. So a multistakeholder brings together people from many interests to talk and make decisions.