An interactive workshop tool for carbon project developers to identify, score, and tier stakeholders under IFC Performance Standard 1. Produces a VVB-ready Annex A matrix aligned with VCS v5.0 safeguards requirements.
Start with the common stakeholder groups below. Click the × on any group that doesn't apply to your project — these are starting points, not requirements. Add your project-specific stakeholders using the form at the bottom. Every carbon project is different: a farming community REDD+ project has different stakeholders than a rangeland grazing project.
Hold land or resource rights, subject to FPIC, directly impacted by project activities
Influence approvals, policy alignment, compliance oversight
Ecological overlap, conservation coordination, community-level engagement
Economic actors, researchers, media, civil society, external observers
Score on four IFC PS1 dimensions. The tool auto-calculates composite score and tier. Any group with Vulnerability = 3 is automatically promoted to Tier 1 — this aligns with VCS v5.0's risk-based safeguards approach.
Scores are plotted on the grid. The quadrants tell you how to engage each group.
Your stakeholder prioritisation matrix, formatted for direct inclusion in your SEP Annex A.