Breaking Ground: Engaging Communities in Extractive and Infrastructure Projects

WRI developed seven Principles for Effective Community Engagement for extractive and infrasturucture projects, as discussed in this 36-page report. The principles are intended to serve two key purposes. For companies and governments developing projects: to provide a framework for indentifying solutions to core community engagement challenges. For citizen organizatins supporting communities: to serve as a resource, in order to empower local communities to provide more meaningful input into project design and implementation.  This report is the first of two produced by WRI's Institutions and Governance Program, the second will identify exmples of best practices for each of the principle's identified.