The IFC Guidance Notes: Performance Standards on Social & Environmental Sustainability explain that consultation on the projects should be “free” (free of intimidation or coercion), “prior” (timely disclosure of information) and “informed” (relevant, understandable and accessible information), and should continue through the entire life of the project and not only during the early stages of the project. That’s the definition, but it’s the details that matter.
World Resources Institute took the question head on and issued Development Without Conflict: The Business Case for Community Consent earlier this week.
If you read and have some thoughts, please do share.
March 2, 2009 at 8:49 pm
[...] Infrastructure Projects”. The report is a well-referenced follow on from a previous report, “Development Without Conflict: The Business Case for Community Consent”, and is the first good practice document I have seen that makes a note of the fact that there is an [...]