Dynamic Stakeholder governance innovation and empowerment sustainability demystifying Ebonyi State’s agricultural empowerment policy regime experience.

Abstract

The concern of evolving complex societal problems and development needs mandate policy regimes to open doors of participation in policy governance to stakeholders as both normative and instrumental imperatives. This study investigates stakeholder engagement practice in Ebonyi State, Nigeria with a view to developing sustainable model for practice across global policy spaces. We mobilised semi-structured interview instrument through face-to-face and online survey across determined diverse stakeholder constituencies to gather data to corroborate our intense literature search and vast secondary data accumulation. Our findings have shown that Stakeholder engagement practice in Ebonyi State is inconsistent with most of the identified eleven factors for sustainable empowerment success, hence the evidence manifest in their experiences overtime. We observed that poor definition of a stakeholder and consequent controversially polemic engagement practice in the policy regime implicated the entire outcome in the empowerment policy regime.