Green care actor map for each study country

The present document represents Deliverable 2.1. – Green care actor map for each study country of the GreenME project. It has been developed as a part of Work Package 2 – Assessment of the current status of green care and is related to Task 2.1. Identify main stakeholder groups related to green care. The stakeholder mapping was carried out during the first four months of the GreenME project and focused on active stakeholders (i.e. actors) involved in adults’ mental health. This report is a stand-alone document identifying and characterizing the identified green care actors. It also forms the basis for further research under WP2, WP4 and WP5.

The fundamental part of this deliverable is the Actors Mapping Sheet which provides the list and characteristics of identified actors for each study country (Annex1). A total of 629 actors dealing with green care are recorded.

This deliverable is structured into three main parts. The first one (Chapter 2) describes the objectives and scope of the report, its relation to other tasks and deliverables, explains the adopted methodology and the way how the findings are presented.

The second part of the report is the main body of this deliverable (Chapter 3). It provides the results of green care actor mapping for each study country. It gives the general overview of green care actors, according to their types, sectors they belong to, level at which they operate and main fields of activity. This part of the report shows also shared roles played by green care actors and their shared focus on particular green care cales. It also provides an insight into population groups targeted by particular actors (e.g. immigrated population, elderly, ethnic minorities). Furthermore this section prioritizes the identified green care actors based on their expertise and influence. A total of 27 influence-expertise matrices were developed (3 green care cales x 9 case studies). These matrices allow to identify 4 categories of stakeholders: key, influential, experienced and marginal.

The third part of this deliverable (Chapter 4) presents the main actors groups related to green care. The selection of these groups was based on comparative analysis of all the matrices developed for all the case studies. This analysis enabled the identification of two main groups of actors i.e. core and essential. Core actors are those actors types that are in the high impact and high expertise quadrant in at least one influence-experience matrix prepared for the three scales of green care. This group equates to key stakeholders category. Essential stakeholders are those who have high influence or expertise in at least one scale of green care. This group is made up of all types of stakeholders who fall into the influential or experienced category.

The results presented in this report may not reflect the full picture of green care actors in the individual research areas. This may be due to the fact that some of the activities are not carried out on a large scale and are not always well promoted, or are carried out incidentally or at short timescales so they may be missed. Furthermore, some of the green care actors in the analysed study areas focus on physical health. Also, for many green care actors operating GreenME project in the study areas, the primary focus groups are children – a population group not included in the GreenMe project-.