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Quality Assessment. Does the Process Work ? Are People Participating ? What Lessons Have Been Learned ? What Now ?. Does the Process Work ? Criteria. Transparency Balance Meaningfulness. Are People Participating ?. What Lessons Have Been Learned ?.
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Quality Assessment • Does the Process Work ? • Are People Participating ? • What Lessons Have Been Learned ? • What Now ?
Does the Process Work ?Criteria • Transparency • Balance • Meaningfulness
What Lessons Have Been Learned ? • Based on the local consultations held so far, the following lessons emerge: • Government staff: Changing attitudes • Villagers: Feeling of involvement • Content: Negatives are shared • Ethnic awareness: Special care was taken
Ethnic Awareness • Importance of ethnicity • Recognizing the needs of different ethnic groups: evolving approach • Opportunities to speak their own languages: improved with time • Small minority groups need to be provided with special attention: especially the “yellow-leaf peoples”
Concerns of Villagers • Reservoir • Watershed • Downstream – Xé Bang Fay
Reservoir Concerns • Social capital • Space • Living • Agriculture • Buffalo grazing • Community forest regulations • Ethnic autonomy in decision-making • Housing design • Priority for project construction jobs
Watershed Concerns • Nam Noy: intra-ethnic administration • Nam Theun: food security, reductionof swidden agriculture • Nam Sot: equity of benefits
Downstream Concerns • Flood protection and riverbank erosion • Grievance procedures and monitoring • Loss of fish habitat • Compensation • Irrigation • Drinking water and sanitation • Infrastructure loss
Next Steps • Momentum • Planning Process • Improvements
Improvements Needed • Process is going well, but content still needs improvement • Consultations should take place in the dry season • The resource teams are still inexperienced in participatory methodology • Ethnic awareness not uniform