How to start a local stakeholder network.

1. Identify and select

Identify all potential members for the Local Stakeholder Network available in the respective community.
Match their expertise and capacity and define their potential roles as regards the organisation of the EWoS Event and its legacy.
Identify one key partner organisation and one specific person as its representative and your key contact.
Contact this person and make her/him the Local Stakeholder Network’s Facilitator; being the central contact and main driver of the Network.
Select all Network members in cooperation with the Network Facilitator.

The Local Network Facilitator …

Must be motivated and active, but also willing to delegate tasks to the other Network members.
Needs to have good contacts into different sectors at the local level.
Should be familiar with or interested in disability-sports / para-sports.
Should be able to gain support of Network members.
Should have appropriate organizational, management and communication skills.
Must have sufficient time to actively take over the assigned task.

The national disability-sport or para-sport organisation should initiate the establishment process of a Local Stakeholder Network and support the Local Stakeholder Facilitator.
However, it is crucial that the Local Stakeholder Network is willing and able to work on its own.