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WEST AFRICAN POWER POOL (WAPP) PÖYRY ENERGY LTD.
Mount Coffee HPP ESIA and RAP 2012-09-18
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� Indirectly interested parties: this is, in a very general way, the entire
population of Liberia, or, in the short and medium term, at least the part of the
population which expects to have electricity supply, and with it general living
and economic conditions, improved by the project; this also includes enterprises
and workers who hope to get contracts and jobs in the course of project
implementation. This group, while certainly in favour of the project, has little or
no direct influence on project outcome.
� Involved parties: these are mainly state organisations that, in their immediate
function (and not in their role as electricity consumers!) have no direct interest
in the project as such, but are involved ex officio in the project preparation and
implementation process. This is e.g. EPA, the entity responsible for conducting
the ESIA process and of issuing the environmental licence to the project, but
also other entities whose interests may be affected by the project (e.g. those
responsible for agriculture, forestry, fisheries and public health). They have a
direct influence on project outcome.
� Affected parties: this is the population directly and physically affected by the
project as such, i.e. the population living in the area where the project is located,
and which will be changed by construction activities, project implementation
and operation. The most direct impact on this group is loss of land and
potentially housing, aspect mentioned in this report in a preliminary way and to
be dealt with in detail in the RAP. To some extent, this group is obviously also
an "interested party" insofar as they expect jobs and other economic advantages
from the project. While this group is the one most directly affected by the
project, it is also the one with the least influence on project outcome.
The focus of the participatory process in the ESIA and RAP development lies clearly on
this latter group. While at least some of the directly interested stakeholders (like LEC
and WAPP as Clients for the ESIA) and some of the involved parties (mainly EPA as
the institution finally deciding on issues related to environmental impacts) are involved
in any way, and also automatically receive (and have to comment) the reports, it is
important that the main stakeholders, the affected parties (PAPs, project affected
persons) receive adequate information on the project and are also enabled to voice their
concerns and suggestions.
23.5 Stakeholder Involvement So Far
Stakeholder involvement, including most of the parties listed above, has been done by
the Consultant in a number of ways, including formal and informal approaches. The
main steps are listed shortly hereunder.
� Official project announcements: the Consultant published a Notice of Intent in
two Liberian newspapers for three days (the Inquirer and the New Dawn 2 nd , 5 th
and 6 th March, 2012), see Annex 23.2.
� Reporting: the Reports prepared so far (Monthly Reports and Scoping Report)
were submitted to the parties as identified in the contract. A further distribution
of these Reports, if any, is then entirely the decision of the Client, i.e. WAPP
and LEC.
� Meetings with various agencies: a number of meetings were held with various
institutions and key persons (see list of meetings in Annex 23.1). Usually, these