Having sufficient consultation and participation with stakeholders helps to promote ownership and responsibility. During implementation, a great number of consultation meetings were conducted on the design, construction, safeguards, job opportunities, ethnic minority culture protection, gender, and social mpacts. These included hundreds of participants including representatives of local governments, nongovernment organizations, potential customers, ethnic minority groups, and women's federations at town, county, and city levels. Continued extensive consultations during project implementation promoted participants' sense of ownership and responsibility for the project, and helped to further improve the project design.
Dali-Lijiang Railway Project