USAID Environmental Assessment of Kurram Tangi Dam Construction: Stakeholder Consultation and Dissemination Plan

The plan was prepared by MWH Americas, Inc. under contract AID-391-C-13-00002 for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in December 2013. The project context is characterized by a short timeline, with the dam construction expected to be completed within a few years. The impetus for the plan is the requirement by USAID and the World Bank for a comprehensive information and consultation plan. The plan aims to ensure that all stakeholders, including project-affected people, local administration, NGOs, and other stakeholders, are informed and consulted throughout the project. The objectives of the plan include facilitating stakeholder consultation, ensuring that all stakeholders are informed about the project, and providing a platform for stakeholders to express their concerns and suggestions. The plan outlines the essential building blocks, including stakeholder identification, activities, and expected outcomes. Stakeholders are categorized into primary, secondary, and tertiary groups. Primary stakeholders include project-affected people, while secondary and tertiary stakeholders include local administration, NGOs, and other stakeholders. The plan outlines the implementation strategy for communication, which includes targeting levels of stakeholders, implementation strategy for communication, and gender communication plan. The gender communication plan aims to ensure that the communication strategy is inclusive and sensitive to the needs of women and other marginalized groups. The plan outlines the main elements of the gender communication strategy, approach and methodology, script, security, and message dissemination. The plan also outlines the methods of communication between different levels of stakeholders, including public consultation meetings, discussion topics, compensation/resettlement determination and delivery, key informant contacts, and facilitation of socio-economic survey. The survey protocol, questionnaire refinement, data compilation, analysis, and review and analysis of secondary source data are also outlined. The plan is divided into several phases, including stakeholder consultation activities, coordination of stakeholder consultations, expected outcomes of the consultation plan, introduction/strategy, targeting levels of stakeholders, implementation strategy for communication, gender communication plan, methods of communication between different levels of stakeholders, messages for dissemination, and need for uniform communication plan. The plan aims to ensure that all stakeholders are informed and consulted throughout the project, and that the project is implemented in a transparent and inclusive manner. The plan is expected to contribute to the successful implementation of the Kurram Tangi Dam Construction project and to the benefit of all stakeholders involved.