Sufficient consultation and participation with stakeholders helped promote ownership, responsibility, and the dissemination of project benefits. During processing and implementation, consultation meetings with stakeholders at various levels were held on the project's design, construction, safeguards, job opportunities, and gender and social impacts. These meetings included hundreds of participants at the village, town, county, and city levels. Local government along the project alignment associated more economic development activities with the project including tourism, urbanization and town zoning, and the creation of more employment opportunities. Extensive, continued consultations during project implementation promoted participants' sense of ownership and responsibility for the project, and helped to improve the project design further.
Chongqing-Lichuan Railway Development Project