Benefits to Projects | Benefits to Affected Persons and Other Stakeholders |
Provides information about project implementation | Provides a cost-effective method to report their grievances and complaints |
Provides an avenue to comply with government policies | Establishes a forum and a structure to report their grievances with dignity, and access to a fair hearing and remedy |
Resolves disputes relatively quickly before they escalate to an unmanageable level | Provides access to negotiate and influence decisions and policies of the project that might adversely affect them |
Facilitates effective communication between the project and affected persons | Facilitates access to information |
Helps win the trust and confidence of community members in the project and creates productive relationships between the parties | - |
Ensures equitable and fair distribution of benefits, costs, and risks | - |
Mitigates or prevents adverse impacts of the project on communities and produces appropriate corrective or preventive action | - |
Helps avoid project delays and cost increases, and improves quality of work | - |