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Importance of Social Best Practices in Development Projects

Learn why adopting social best practices in development projects is crucial to mitigate losses and ensure fair compensation, sharing best practices, monitoring progress, and enhancing participation to achieve sustainable outcomes.

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Importance of Social Best Practices in Development Projects

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  1. Module Why Social Best Practices are Important? Jayantha Perera, PhD

  2. Development Projects Create LAR If no adequate and timely mitigation: Persons/communities suffer losses Economic, social, and environmental Common resources, social networks Cultural identity and ancestral lands Infrastructure facilities

  3. Losses/Harm • loss of subsistence • leads to exploit fragile ecosystems • generating environmental risks. • social tensions between different groups • Mutual assistance suffer • Encroachment on public land - squatters • distorting urban employment opportunities • weakening social safety networks.

  4. How Best Practices Operate? • Through social safeguards • country safeguard systems • international best practices, • avoid/mitigate social risks of projects • Provide • strategies to implement IR programs • indicators to monitor IR progress • Develop corrective measure when deviate • Maintain the quality of projects

  5. How Best Practices Help? • Better understanding of LAR helps: • tackle difficult development challenges • contribute to sustainable development. • Close adherence to social safeguards help • avoid delays, • corruption, and resource wastage. • Ensure deserving persons and communities receive fair compensation, resettlement assistance, and project benefits avoiding impoverishment and social tensions.

  6. EAR and Affected People • Good grasp of LAR best practices help APs: • Claim entitlements and IR assistance. • discuss with project authorities • adequacy, • timeliness, • compensation packages and IR • a grievance redress mechanism – several tiers

  7. Key LAR Best Practices • Avoid: Physical displacement economic displacement other adverse impacts on population • If unavoidable, minimize above impacts • Consult APs and disclose information • Improve or at least restore livelihoods • Compensate lost assets adequately • Rehabilitate especially those relocated • Protect cultural artifacts and commons

  8. Scope of LAR Best Practices • Public/private sector • Temporary and permanent aquisition • Physical and economic impacts • Associated facilities • Voluntary Land donation • Land pooling • Willing seller/buyer transaction

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