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

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Ensures equitable and fair distribution of benefits, costs, and risks

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Mitigates or prevents adverse impacts of the project on communities and produces appropriate corrective or preventive action

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Helps avoid project delays and cost increases, and improves quality of work

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