The first step in the process of stakeholder engagement is stakeholder identification, determining who the project stakeholders are, and their key groupings. From this flows stakeholder analysis, a more in-depth look at stakeholder group interests and how they will be affected, and what influence they could have on an intervention.  
In a bid to understand its stakeholders, the Support Program for Refugee Settlements in Northern Uganda (SPRS-NU) under the European Union Emergency Trust Fund (EUTF) successfully started the process through a segmentation workshop conducted at Heritage Courts Hotel in Arua district of Northern Uganda.

The EUTF SPRS-NU stakeholder segmentation will enable  effective and efficient engagement with the various target audiences as part of the visibility and communications efforts.

Among the participants of the workshop, were Arua Local Council (LC) 5 vice chairperson, Refugee Desk Office (RDO), Implementing partners from the Danish Refugee Council, Austrian Development Agency implementers - WDSF-Northern, ZOA, CEFORD, Save the Children and Belgium Development Agency.

Genesis Acema Dria the LC 5 Vice Chairperson of Arua District lauded European Union for its support to refugee settlements and host communities in Northern Uganda.
“Such an exercise to understand needs of stakeholders is commendable and we pledge our support” he noted. He recognized the involvement of local Government in the exercise and pledged the support of his team.

The EUTF through SPRS–NU aims at addressing the roots of destabilization, forced displacement and irregular migration. Its objective is to sustainably improve food security, nutrition and livelihood of refugees and host communities in the refugee districts of Northern Uganda.

Uganda is home to over 823,528 South Sudan refugees and over 1,139,374 refugees and asylum seekers in total (UNHCR statistics April 2017). The South Sudan Refugee crisis is currently the biggest on the African Continent.

The EUTF SPRS-NU is implemented by Austrian Development Agency, Belgian Development Agency and NGO consortium led by Danish Refugee Agency.