Describe the five major stakeholders for your project and their motivations.

This Plastic Project is very new, so it is still gathering its major stakeholders.  This being said, there are still some major players that are invested into our project that could lift the project to being a success.  One major stakeholder is the women’s co-op.  These are the women that will be utilizing the finished product of our project.  They will also be the main benefactors in the economic success of the project.  With micro-funding they might also be financially involved.  Other stakeholders would be the suppliers to the women’s co-op.  Whether that be wholesale retailers or supplies in another form that still need to be found so that they can be purchased in Paradise Village.  Their motivation for being involved would be the economic benefit about having another place to sell their products.  The University of the Philippines, who is partnering with Lehigh on this project, would also be stakeholder.  With that logic Lehigh would also be a major stakeholder.  Both of their motivations for being part of the project could be for philanthropy sake and also for educational purposes.  The bishops council of the Philippines, Children’s International and Likahn are also stakeholders with a philanthropic motivation.

Describe three ways in which you will validate your project and enhance your credibility over the course of the semester.

Being new to this project I think a lot of preliminary research is necessary to make me a more credible resource to contribute to the project.  After I have a general knowledge on the topic of plastic recycling and the ecosystem of Paradise Village, I think that to enhance our credibility would be a matter of working with the women in the co-op and having that connection that can take this project to the next level.  I think it is very important to see every idea to fruition, in the sense that if we do not see it all the way through and just hand this idea to the women’s co-op there could be a failure in our idea that we did not foresee because we didn’t think of every possibility with the idea.